Dr. Petrosino Receives $457,755 NSF Award to Increase Student Pursuit of STEM Careers
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Professor Receives NSF Award to Increase Student Pursuit of STEM Careers
Dr. Anthony PetrosinoImagine a classroom of middle-school or high-school students engaged in a collaborative high-tech project, like untangling the complexities of traffic-flow simulation or mapping out the potential spread of Zika. College of Education Associate Professor Anthony Petrosino is helping educators learn to teach their students to develop and work on projects just like these.
This fall, he and University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Professor Walter Stroup were awarded a $457,755 grant from the National Science Foundation for research that will help educators increase students’ motivation and capacity to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.
The project, which focuses on collaborative, interactive, cloud-based instruction and learning, will demonstrate how network-supported, group-based learning grounded in the principles of Generative Design can improve learning outcomes for all learners, across racial and ethnic backgrounds. “Generative Design is rooted in the students’ generation of ideas and it takes those ideas seriously,” says Petrosino. “Student motivation increases when students are able to create and follow their own lines of inquiry.”
The project will help pre-service teachers develop more fully participatory and socially-supported approaches to classroom learning, using authentic STEM practices in group-centered learning environments. The work is of particular importance to those who prepare pre-service teachers for the classroom, because most programs don’t use this type of approach in teacher preparation. Sites such as the UTeach Natural Sciences program—a nationally recognized and expanding approach to STEM teacher preparation and certification—will serve as incubators and test beds for the project’s innovation and development efforts. Says Petrosino, “UTeach was founded not only as an exemplary STEM teacher preparation program but also as a program that seeks to remain on the cutting edge of the latest advancements in the learning sciences. To that end, it is the responsibility of UTeach professors to not only teach but to conduct research and seek external funding that advances our students’ knowledge and abilities while also trying to advance the field through research.” The full NSF award is in collaboration with scholars from Northwestern and Vanderbilt universities. Find out more about the scope and reach of UTeach Natural Sciences.
The following is the full detailed Agenda for the October 9, 2018 Hoboken Board of Education Meeting. Excerpts from various speakers are also included. The full video of the meeting can be accessed by clicking HERE . HBOE October Board of Education Agenda by Anthony Petrosino on Scribd Public portion of the October 9, 2018 meeting where concerns about the district are presented by a citizen.
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20th Anniversary Celebration- May 23, 2017 As one of the original Co-Founder's of UTeach Natural Sciences, this year's annual conference is especially close to my heart as we celebrate our 20th Anniversary. The UTeach teacher certification program is a collaborative effort on the part of the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin . It was created in 1997 to address both the shortage of qualified secondary mathematics, science, and computer science teachers as well as the quality of those entering the field. The program has been well-received, cited by the National Academy of Sciences as a model program addressing the need for more highly qualified mathematics and science teachers. UTeach has been a model for other innovative mathematics and science education programs at other institutions; expanded to involve an additional forty-four universities in twenty-one states by 2019. -Dr. Petrosino Click to Enlarge T he 2017 ...
The project will help pre-service teachers develop more fully participatory and socially-supported approaches to classroom learning, using authentic STEM practices in group-centered learning environments. The work is of particular importance to those who prepare pre-service teachers for the classroom, because most programs don’t use this type of approach in teacher preparation.
The project will help pre-service teachers develop more fully participatory and socially-supported approaches to classroom learning, using authentic STEM practices in group-centered learning environments. The work is of particular importance to those who prepare pre-service teachers for the classroom, because most programs don’t use this type of approach in teacher preparation.
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