Post by ENGAGE administrator on Apr 16, 2013 9:42:16 GMT -5
Message from Jon Harbor, GK12 Director.
Time Sensitive: GK-12 Program Callout for Fall Semester: Please consider recommending this to PhD students and Post-Docs in your Department.
GK-12 is an exciting program organized through the Graduate School that gives Ph.D. and Post doctoral students a mentored, in-depth opportunity to share their research with K-12 students and teachers in a local middle school. This provides PhD students and Post-Docs with enhanced skills and experience in outreach, teaching and communication of their research. Past participants have found that it makes them more competitive for jobs and significantly improves their ability to communicate their research.
After an initial training session, PhD students and Post Docs in the GK-12 program will learn from and assist teachers in a local middle school for approximately one day a week for 10 weeks, and by the end of the semester they will develop and teach a lesson that brings their interests and research into a middle school classroom. This is an extension of a very successful externally-funded program that ran for several years, and has now been successfully transitioned to a graduate school program. While this program does not provide funding directly to the student or post doc, some modest funding is available for expenses associated with materials for in-class activities. Students may elect to register for 2 credit hours for their involvement, and the program is open to all PhD and Post Doc students at Purdue (any and all disciplines). Master's students may be accepted in to the program if space allows.
Potential participants should attend the GK-12 Callout on Friday, April 19th from 4:00-5:00pm in Hampton Hall of Civil Engineering, Room 2201. The callout will include a brief presentation of the program, answers to any questions potential participants may have, and a chance to talk with current program participants about their experience.
Potential participants who are not able to attend the callout should contact the program coordinator (Faith Weeks;fweeks@purdue.edu) with any questions, and to get information on applying to join the program.
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Time Sensitive: GK-12 Program Callout for Fall Semester: Please consider recommending this to PhD students and Post-Docs in your Department.
GK-12 is an exciting program organized through the Graduate School that gives Ph.D. and Post doctoral students a mentored, in-depth opportunity to share their research with K-12 students and teachers in a local middle school. This provides PhD students and Post-Docs with enhanced skills and experience in outreach, teaching and communication of their research. Past participants have found that it makes them more competitive for jobs and significantly improves their ability to communicate their research.
After an initial training session, PhD students and Post Docs in the GK-12 program will learn from and assist teachers in a local middle school for approximately one day a week for 10 weeks, and by the end of the semester they will develop and teach a lesson that brings their interests and research into a middle school classroom. This is an extension of a very successful externally-funded program that ran for several years, and has now been successfully transitioned to a graduate school program. While this program does not provide funding directly to the student or post doc, some modest funding is available for expenses associated with materials for in-class activities. Students may elect to register for 2 credit hours for their involvement, and the program is open to all PhD and Post Doc students at Purdue (any and all disciplines). Master's students may be accepted in to the program if space allows.
Potential participants should attend the GK-12 Callout on Friday, April 19th from 4:00-5:00pm in Hampton Hall of Civil Engineering, Room 2201. The callout will include a brief presentation of the program, answers to any questions potential participants may have, and a chance to talk with current program participants about their experience.
Potential participants who are not able to attend the callout should contact the program coordinator (Faith Weeks;fweeks@purdue.edu) with any questions, and to get information on applying to join the program.
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Don't forget to submit about your research in order to win a Kindle! 2 weeks left. More info www.engagepurdue.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=317
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