Many students learn best by doing or building. Teachers can learn the same way. UNC Greensboro’s School of Education students – as well as current teachers – need spaces where they can experiment, learn from mistakes, and fine-tune ideas so that they feel more confident in their classrooms.
As part of the UNC Greensboro STEM Teacher Leader Collaborative’s (TLC) commitment to provide quality support to area science teachers, 20 elementary teachers from schools in the North Carolina counties of Harnett, Randolph, Rockingham, and Guilford visited campus for a summer institute. This collaboration of teachers worked to support excellent science education in local schools.
The award recognizes Dr. Calabrese Barton and Dr. Tan for their work to reframe research on STEM teaching and teacher education and its implications for practice in both classrooms and communities.
Congratulations to Dr. Edna Tan (TEHE) and Dr. Angela Calabrese Barton, whose paper “Designing for rightful presence in STEM: The role of making present practices” was selected for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of the Learning Sciences Award for 2019. Their paper was awarded by an external panel … Continued
Original Story is available from the UNCG Research Magazine Dr. Heidi Carlone’s doctoral student Dearing Blankmann helps a kindergarten class explore the relationship between bees and flowers. Carlone’s work at Moss Street Partnership School (MSPS) is part of her larger STEM TLC project – the STEM Teacher Leader Collaborative (TLC). Co-founded … Continued
Greensboro, NC — For the week of May 13-20, 2019, the National Science Foundation (NSF) 2019 STEM for All Video Showcase featured more than 240 STEM education projects from around the country. Among them were projects by UNC Greensboro Teacher Education and Higher Education (TEHE) Department’s Dr. Edna Tan, Dr. Aerin W. Benavides, and … Continued
On the morning of Saturday, January 26, more than 60 elementary teachers from across the state (centralized in the Piedmont Triad area) came together in the UNCG School of Education building to participate in STEMergizing Saturday, a 3 hour long session on integrating STEM into their classrooms. The goal of … Continued