STEM Ed Announcement: UMass NSF Noyce Project

["Mort Sternheim" <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is a UMass Amherst program
 Contact information is below
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 UMass NSF Noyce Project 
 Supporting STEM Teaching and Learning through Communities
 (S2TLC) 
 
 Informational/recruitment meeting 
 
 $50,000 Master Teaching and Teaching Fellowships over five
 years ($10,000/year) for qualified Science, Technology,
 Engineering, and Mathematics in-service and pre-service
 teachers
 
 Monday, October 24, 2011
 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
 Marks Meadow (adjacent to Furcolo Hall)
 Room 167
 
      S2TLC is a five-year NSF-funded partnership of the
 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Greenfield, Holyoke,
 and Springfield public schools, the Mahar Regional school
 district and the Hitchcock Center. The project will build
 and support a community and pipeline of STEM educators that
 explore deep content knowledge, inquiry-based and
 culturally responsive practices, and the integration of
 technology in grades 6-12 mathematics and science
 classrooms. Face-to-face and virtual communities of
 practice are hallmarks of the project that will connect
 teachers in western Massachusetts during and beyond the
 project.      Master Teaching Fellows are being recruited
 on the basis of their potential to assume leadership in the
 direction of highly successful collaborations among
 mathematics and science educators. Teaching Fellows will
 enter an accelerated program for their Master's degree and
 licensure for teaching in a STEM (Science, Technology,
 Engineering, or Mathematics) field. Master Teaching Fellow
 (MTFs) candidates are successful grades 6-12 mathematics
 and science teachers from Springfield, Holyoke, Greenfield,
 or Mahar. To be eligible, MTFs must already have a Master's
 degree and licensure to teach mathematics or science in
 their district. Teaching Fellows will be recruited on the
 basis of the equivalent of an undergraduate degree in one
 of the STEM areas and their commitment to working in high
 needs schools. Additional requirements may be found on the
 project website, see below.  
 
 Who should attend the informational meeting?
 
 1) Grades 6-12 mathematics and science teachers from
 Greenfield, Holyoke, Mahar, or Springfield public  chools
 with interest in developing their capacities to provide
 leadership and direction for STEM education in their
 schools.
 2) Highly qualified and motivated STEM graduates and
 professionals with interest in teaching in the STEM fields
 in high needs schools.
 
 
 Hope to see you Monday. Please direct inquiries to Sandy
 Madden at smadden@educ.umass.edu or Kathleen Davis at
 kdavis@educ.umass.edu. 
 
 More information about the project may be found at
 http://blogs.umass.edu/nsfnoyce/ 
 
 
 
 Sandra Madden, Ph.D.
 Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
 Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies
 University of Massachusetts--Amherst
 813 North Pleasant Street
 Amherst, MA 01003-9308
 email:  smadden@educ.umass.edu 
 phone: (413) 545-0135
 fax: (413) 545-2879
 
 
 
 

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