STEMnet TEACHER HUB SPECIALISTS IN THE CLASSROOM
Next Steps During the summer of 2011, a select group of biology teachers and industry specialists
Fifty interested and qualified
will work with MBRT to collaborate on the alignment of content; development of
volunteers will be identified, recruited
training, presentation, and evaluation strategies; and to test the online STEMnet
and trained.
management system.
The online STEMnet management system will be fine-tuned and launched. Four high schools will be identified to participate in the program and presentations in biology classrooms will be scheduled in the fall of 2011. In year two of the project, STEM Specialists in the Classroom (Biology) will be expanded to 12 high schools in 6 school districts. STEM Specialists in the Classroom (Algebra) will be planned and implemented in a fashion similar to the process used for Biology.
Technology Infrastructure MBRT is developing the technology platform for STEMnet, and the first application will support the Teacher Hub. Working with developers and designers from a number of technology providers, MBRT is building and user testing the STEMnet Teacher Hub. The platform will be launched the fall of 2011 to support the initial program of the Teacher Hub Specialists in the Classroom. To meet the needs of educators and STEM specialists, the STEMnet platform will provide the following: a hosted web-application, serving as the single online destination for all program participants custom pages and dashboards for various audiences (educators, STEM industry specialists/ volunteers, administrators) profile information on STEM specialists, companies and career fields information on educator needs and requests aligned to curriculum a match-making engine, to connect willing educators and STEM specialists databases on all users’ training, events, resources, and outcome surveys communication channels to inform participants and grow the community reporting, survey and evaluation capabilities.
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