UMass Boston invites applications from interested graduate students in the physical sciences, materials science, life science, mathematics, and engineering disciplines for the NSF-sponsored GK-12 Teaching Fellows Program.

The WISP program will support four UMass Boston Science Graduate Students (Masters or Doctoral, but Doctoral preferred) for one year. Fellows will use Watershed Sciences (Environmental Sciences, Watershed Examples and Activities) to help Middle School Science Teachers teach Science in the classrooms of the Boston, Dedham and Milton Public Schools. Preference will be given to graduate students with an expressed interest in using the environment as an integrated context for learning, students with a high likelihood of successful completion of a graduate science degree at UMB and future career in science, and students already engaged in graduate research. All graduate students in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences, and Physics may apply. (Project Summary)

Prospective fellows should be committed to the following:

• Developing presentations and demonstrations for use in K-12 classrooms.

• Spending minimum of 15 hours per week (10 hours in the classroom; 5 hours preparation outside the classroom) during the entire school year providing direct assistance to Teachers

• Required to take a specially developed course, "Teaching Environmental Sciences and Technology" (TEST), that will provide continuing pedagological and content training.

The details and expectations for graduates and undergraduates are described in the following links:

Graduate Fellowships

 

Please submit application materials to Professor Robert Chen, Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences (EEOS) at (S-1-059) by January 5th, 2009. Selections will be made by January 12th, 2009.