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CALL FOR APPLICANTS: 2010 KSTF Teaching Fellowships Award up to $150,000 to Beginning High School Math and Science Teachers Applications Now Available on Knowles Science Teaching Foundation’s New Website Do you have a passion for teaching high school science or math? Are you committed to becoming an outstanding professional teacher? A Teaching Fellowship from the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF) can ...

CLAREMORE -- Nothing revs the academic motor of car enthusiast Tim Cathey like pre-engineering class. "I like working with my hands and this is almost like that," the Claremore High School senior said. "It's pretty cool. It's classroom imagination. Whatever you think of, you can make." Students are making the most of that opportunity at Claremore. The high school is offering ...

32,000 FEET ABOVE SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO — Gravitational forces pinned adrenalin-pumped science teachers flat on their backs on floor mats aboard a steeply climbing Boeing 727. And then as the jet crested, its nose beginning to fall, a brief sense of panic changed to elation as the teachers floated freely. Whoops of joy and laughter filled the padded cabin. The discombobulated ...

Arizona State University is combining energy, innovation and expertise in STEM education (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to develop a groundbreaking new institute that will produce a community of highly qualified middle school math and science teachers. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded ASU a five-year, $1.25 million Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) grant to develop The Modeling Institute, a ...

Successfully introducing Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) into classrooms is one of the biggest challenges proposed by new educational plans. A research group from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) has studied substituting the current way in which education is structured for a new one that takes full advantage of the potential of new technologies. Little by little, Information and ...