Tag: Teacher education and certification
Missouri S&T child care center open house is Dec. 14
The local community is invited to attend an open house for Missouri S&T’s new Child Development Center this December. The new center will offer child care year-round, starting in January 2022
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S&T helps local teachers integrate hands-on science into classrooms
Local high school teachers and 4-H leaders may see the area’s streams, lakes, caves and springs differently after undergoing training with geoscientists at Missouri S&T.
Read More »University of Missouri System names three S&T faculty Presidential Engagement Fellows
Three Missouri S&T faculty will serve as University of Missouri System Presidential Engagement Fellows during the 2021-22 academic year. The faculty members will serve as ambassadors in the region and speak to local organizations and communities about their areas of research and expertise. There is no cost for an organization or individual to host a speaker.
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S&T names director of new Kummer Center for STEM Education
Courtney Jones, a former high school principal in Arkansas and most recently an educator in Jefferson City, Missouri, has been appointed as the founding director of the Kummer Center for STEM Education at Missouri S&T.
Read More »Missouri S&T student nominated to education advisory board
Missouri S&T student Thuraia Ibrahim has been appointed to the Missouri Advisory Board for Educator Preparation (MABEP) as a student advisor. Ibrahim is a junior in biological sciences with an emphasis in secondary education from Rolla, Missouri.
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Missouri S&T to offer new STEM-focused degrees in water sustainability, teacher education
Missouri S&T plans to address growing demands for careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields through two new degree programs – one at the undergraduate level for teachers and one at the graduate level for scientists and engineers.
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Missouri S&T to prepare middle school teachers to fill teacher shortages
ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T will offer teacher certification in middle school math, science, English language arts and social studies this fall after earning approval for the subjects this spring. “There’s a growing need for middle school teachers,” says Dr. Beth Kania-Gosche, Missouri S&T’s chair of teacher education and certification.
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Teaching is priority No. 1
When Michelle Schwartze arrived for a tour of Missouri S&T, students kept interrupting her guide, Dr. Larry Gragg, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor emeritus and former chair of history and political science, to say hello and talk with him. Those interactions drew her to S&T. “I liked that he knew the students by name,” says Schwartze, an […]
Read More »S&T teacher education student and local elementary teacher selected for Space Symposium
The Space Foundation chose a Missouri S&T student and her mentor teacher at Rolla Middle School to attend the 34th Space Symposium this month. They will serve as teacher liaisons at the symposium April 16-19 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Read More »Kelly Carter named interim chair of new department of teacher education and certification
Kelly Carter has been named interim chair of Missouri University of Science and Technology’s newly created department of teacher education and certification. Her appointment becomes effective Jan. 1.
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