GK-12 Fellowship
GK-12 is a program supported by the National Science Foundation's
GK-12 Fellowship. Fellows spend ten hours each week teaching
engineering, math, and science at K-12 schools. Graduate students,
undergraduate teaching assistants, and faculty members work together
to design teaching modules that EDUCATE, MOTIVATE, and EXCITE
students in 6th through 8th grade.
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Washington
University in St. Louis has developed a partnership with
Gateway Middle School,
Steger Sixth Grade Center,
STL
Charter School,
Construction Careers Center,
Brittany Woods and the
Department
of Education to improve the opportunities for students at these
St. Louis schools. The partnership focuses on capturing sixth and
eighth grade students' interest in mathematics, science, and
engineering. LEAP is part of the
NSF's
GK-12 program.
GK12
Fellows (doctoral students),
UGTAs
(undergraduate teaching assistants),
K-12
school teachers, and
Washington University faculty will form 10 teaching teams, each
with a specific area of expertise. Each teaching team will develop a
Teaching
Module and, over a period of 7 weeks(4 per year), instruct K-12
students on using the tools developed.
Our
mission is to communicate our excitement about science, mathematics,
and engineering to K-12 students through hands on classroom
experiments and activities.
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