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Early career STEM teachers are a huge benefit to the profession. They provide innovative instructional ideas and advance STEM education but are often drained in their quest to become highly effective teachers. Covey and Covey (2020) presented habits of highly effective people, and noted that being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, and putting […]

The University of West Florida (UWF)-Teach Program prepares STEM majors to become STEM teachers in high-need school districts (HNSDs) and provides the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Robert Noyce Teacher scholarship to qualified candidates (DUE #1660615 and #2151061). Noyce scholar teacher candidates are placed in school districts with higher populations of low-income and minoritized students who […]

In May 2024, the country will see the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the landmark ruling that established racially segregated schools unconstitutional. The Brown v. Board of Education decision undoubtedly serves as a key moment in the history of U.S. education and civil rights; however, the implementation of desegregation […]

At our university, we are focused on raising the awareness of our secondary degree programs that prepare students to be secondary STEM teachers. We have displayed posters around campus, hung banners in STEM buildings, staffed tables at major fairs, and worked with first-year advisors of freshman, first-time-in college students, and undeclared majors. Another recruitment approach […]

When thinking about science education during the pandemic, a critical theme emerged: space matters. Teaching and learning about science education through video-conferencing software does not provide the appropriate environmental conditions to adequately prepare teacher candidates for real-world, in-person teaching (Rapanta et al., 2021; Ray & Srivastava, 2020). The flattening of the environment to two-dimensional computer […]