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A Hands-On Look at Teaching - June 17-21, 2019

Deadline Extended: Apply by May 10!

The ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ Future Teacher Academy is for students who believe a teaching career – particularly a teaching career in the STEM fields – is in their future.

This is a week-long opportunity to get a hands-on feel for the teaching field from local teaching luminaries. And, at the end of the week, you'll get the chance to try out what you've learned with real students from metro KC.

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About the Academy

Prepare for a week of events (including some after-hour events, and the chance to overnight in USM's residence halls) that will underscore the benefits of being a STEM teacher. You'll:

• learn how to design high-impact lessons
• write lesson plans
• get acclimated with state-of-the art classroom tech, including robotics and 3D printers
• meet students with similar interests
• hear from guest speakers, including Kansas Teacher of the Year winners and nominees and work with local STEM teachers and university faculty.

There is no cost to attend USM's Future Teacher Academy.

ALSO: Completing the Academy earns you 2 hours of college credit (equivalent of USM's ED250 - Teaching as a Profession course).
 

USM's Future Teacher Academy is made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.^{^}

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Who Can Attend?

The USM Future Teacher Academy is open to high school students entering their sophomore, junior, or senior years, as well as to students who currently attend community colleges.

Seats are limited. Fill out the application form below by May 10! Admission to the Teacher Academy is rolling, so we will begin considering applicants as soon as your application is received.

Questions? Contact USM's Education Department at 913-758-6116.

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Agenda

• Day 1 - Team-building activities, small-group work. Panelists discuss STEM teaching experience

• Day 2 - Members of the Kansas Teacher of the Year Team will interact with students; hands-on afternoon workshop on developing STEM learning activities

• Day 3 - USM alum STEM teachers will demonstrate hands-on experiments and work with participants on lesson planning; participants will create brief lessons using materials provided 

• Day 4 - Academy participants teach these lessons to local students and then discuss and debrief the experience with FTA faculty

• Day 5 - Awards, wrap-up, and student video presentation

Participants staying on campus will have free time from 3:30 to 5 p.m., with dinner at 5:30 p.m., followed by evening activities with residential assistants

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^Partial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program under Award No. 1758499. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.