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GSU receives $900K grant to recruit, train science teachers
Georgia State University was awarded a nearly $900,000 grant this summer from the National Science Foundation to increase the number of science teachers in metro Atlanta schools.
The grant, titled "Impacting Metro-Atlanta Science Teaching," or I-MAST, is used to recruit, prepare and support 36 high quality science educators over the next five years.
The program offers scholarships to undergraduate majors studying content in the STEM fields, which stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Students will study in the Master of Arts in Teaching program in the College of Education's Department of Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology.
I-MAST is a collaboration between the College of Education and GSU's College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Georgia Institute of Technology and four public school districts in the Metro Atlanta area.
The first scholarship recipients are expected to enroll at GSU in fall 2010. Applicants will have at least a junior level status at their undergraduate study either at GSU's College of Arts and Sciences or Georgia Tech, or have a minimum bachelor's degree in a STEM area.
Undergraduate students who commit to pursue a secondary science teacher certification at GSU will receive a two-year scholarship totaling $24,000 to be used in their senior year of undergraduate studies and in their year of teacher certification studies. STEM graduates will receive a one-year scholarship of $12,000 to complete their teacher certification studies. Scholarship recipients will be obligated to teach two years in a Metro Atlanta high need school district for every year of funding received.
For more information and a listing of qualification to apply, please click here. |
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Did You Know...
 The College of Education's Department of Early Childhood Education houses a regional training center for Reading Recovery teacher leaders?
Reading Recovery is an early intervention program for first grade students and is a proven means of preventing reading failure. Students develop a self-improving system and most leave within 12-16 weeks reading at the average level of their class. Studies show that students maintained the gains achieved in Reading Recovery after three years.
Since its inception in 1991, Reading Recovery at Georgia State University has trained 60 teacher leaders and 1,075 teachers who have served over 28,000 children.
For more information, please click here. |
