These projects focus on professional learning experiences for inservice and preservice STEM teachers and developing a better understanding of teacher thinking, practice and learning in STEM fields. Common to each project listed below is a desire to help STEM teachers effectively work with all students in the nation’s increasingly diverse settings.
Professional Development in STEM
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Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching (TRC)
Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching (TRC) is an award-winning network of P-16 partnerships that provide sustained, high-intensity professional development to P-12 teachers of science and mathematics.
WeTeach_CS
WeTeach_CS is a multifaceted initiative designed to increase the number of certified computer science teachers in Texas and to continue improving CS education by providing teachers with ongoing professional development, resources, and community.
Pathways of Promise: Middle School Mathematics Project (PoP-MSMP)
The POP: MSMP project aims to provide professional development to middle school mathematics teachers following the TRC model, which includes summer intensive PD, school embedded follow-up, and creating and supporting mathematics leaders.
Beginning Teacher and Induction Mentoring
The Beginning Teacher and Induction Mentoring (BTIM) program was administered to support early career math and science teachers to increase their retention and effectiveness.
Geometry in Construction (GiC)
A professional development program to train teachers to implement the GiC curriculum of integrated Math-CTE learning.
Responsive Teaching in Elementary Mathematics
This research project studies responsive teaching and its development in the context of a professional development design experiment focused on rational numbers in grades 3–5.
The Goals of a First year science teacher
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The Science Teacher Cognition Project
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