COLUMBUS, Ind. — The Division of Education at IUPUC has received a $275,000 grant funded by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s STEM Teacher Recruitment Fund to enhance the SEISTEM (South East Indiana STEM) program that it has been operating since 2017.
SEISTEM, which is housed and managed by the Center for Teaching and Learning at IUPUC, has provided professional development for K- 8 in-service teachers in STEM content through workshops and summer classes since 2017. In addition, the project provides opportunities for in-service and pre-service teachers licensed or seeking licensure in non-STEM areas to develop the content knowledge necessary to obtain Indiana middle-grades (5-9) science or mathematics licensure, as well as elementary STEM licensure.
The primary SEISTEM goal aims at increasing science and math content knowledge of teachers in rural areas of southeastern Indiana and in high-poverty schools where there is a shortage of licensed math and science teachers.
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