Dear Chatham Educators:
Some of you are familiar with ChathamSTEM either because you have kids in the Chatham school district who have attended one of the programs or because you have taught in one of those out of school programs.
As a grassroots non for profit, we have mostly communicated during our first year with students and families to share with them opportunities to learn. At the beginning of our second year, we are reaching out to the teachers and educators to share with them opportunities to teach/coach or to learn new skills/knowledge and eventually teach them to Chatham students.
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While our focus is on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, these teaching/learning opportunities are for all Educators: from the P.E teacher who wants to introduce a new technology in her sport and teach it to her athletes to the Business education teacher interested in bringing a workshop about Technology Entrepreneurship.
Our focus is on pushing the frontiers of what is offered during the day in our schools, exploring new avenues, experiment with new methods and curricula, testing new contents. Don't be afraid to try and don't be afraid to fail. Take the road less traveled and try with a smaller number of kids what you can't with a full classroom. We will help you recruit the students, run the logistics of the program and make the experience a success.
We have a special appetite for the multidisciplinary (science and arts, technology and sports,...), the inter-generational (high schoolers teaching middle schoolers, middle schoolers teaching K-5 kids) and anything that can help close the gender gap in STEM.
We hope you will be coming up with your own ideas. We will also be posting through this channel opportunities that might be relevant to you. If you express interest, we assume you will be willing to bring that program to the Chatham students down the line. The format of what will be offered to the Chatham students will vary from a workshop, a talk, an after school enrichment, a Club,...
We will reimburse all training expenses (tuition, mileage, meals and a $10/hour to pay for that babysitter) and offer compensation for teaching the students, once that new knowledge becomes a program in Chatham. We do not offer compensation for attending the training. (Unless it is explicitly mentioned).
Thank you for your daily dedication to educating the Chatham youth and we hope to help you continuously expand the boundaries of what is offered to them.
Nabil Mouline
ChathamSTEM
chathamstem@gmail.com
