Global STEM Education Workshop:
STEM Teaching Fundamentals
Our mission is to support global STEM education and innovation in order to change the lives of faculty and students.
With our global partners, we work to improve classroom teaching and learning environments. Providing transformative classroom experiences for students ensures that they stay in STEM fields, and opens doors to future opportunities.
About the Program
In response to the global coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions, we are moving our summer STEM education workshops to remote environments. We invite participants from global universities to a remote 2-day interactive workshop on evidence-based STEM teaching practices.
In the workshop participants will:
- Engage in best practices for creating social presence in an remote learning environment.
- Workshop materials are relevant to all STEM fields.
- Workshops will be conducted in English; higher English proficiency required.
Participants will….
- Learn about and practice developing and implementing evidence-based teaching in STEM classes.
- Incorporate features of learning through their course design to create a more culturally responsive, inclusive, and equitable learning environment.
- Use their own teaching materials and content to develop additional resources for their STEM courses using principles from the workshop. Participants may choose to create resources for COVID19 teaching.
Program Details
Select one time option:
- June 15 and June 16, 2020, 7-9am Pacific Time (Central European/ Middle East/ Africa Time) See your equivalent local time
- June 15 and June 16, 2020, 5-7pm Pacific Time (Asia Pacific Time) See your equivalent local time
Program Fee: $200 USD
Includes:
- Program curriculum and workshop materials.
- Four hours of synchronous remote learning.
- Global STEM Education certificate of completion.
- Individual teaching consultation on asynchronous individual work.
- Discount to attend a future in-person teaching workshop on the beautiful University of Oregon campus when travel restrictions are lifted.
Excludes:
- Video and computer connections.
Application Information
The Workshop is open to faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and high school teachers from global institutions.
Participants with any range of teaching experience are warmly welcomed to participate.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling deadline with application deadline extended to June 8, 2020. (A limited number of scholarships are available; contact us for details.)
Why Oregon?
When you come to the University of Oregon, you get the chance to refresh your mind, body, and spirit. Oregon is the place to learn, to grow, to revive, and to thrive. Our world-class university is nestled between the rugged Cascade mountain ranges and the Pacific Ocean. We are at the forefront of sustainability, championing new ways to help save our planet, and we pride ourselves on establishing a global community of scholars.
Who Are We?
Our mission is to support global STEM education and innovation in order to change the lives of faculty and students.
With our global partners, we work to improve classroom teaching and learning environments. Providing transformative classroom experiences for students ensures that they stay in STEM fields, and opens doors to future opportunities.
Our teaching programs are designed for STEM faculty, post-docs, or graduate students to practice cutting-edge teaching techniques, which they can immediately implement in classrooms. We offer customized programs varying in length from one-day workshops to week-long trainings. These include sessions on how to create 21st century learning environments, improve diversity, engage more students, and increase the understanding of how science communication techniques boost learning.
Elly Vandegrift is the program director for Global Science Education Initiatives. She has been a higher education biology instructor for 17 years and has led science education professional development for more than a decade. She has facilitated STEM education and communication workshops at the University of Oregon and across the world with partners such as Nagoya University and Mohammed Al-Mana College of Health Sciences. Elly is co-chair of the Executive Steering Committee and a member of the leadership team for the Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching, an organization that provides evidence-based teaching professional development for current and future faculty.
Tentative Schedule
Day 1
Synchronous
- Welcome and Introductions
- Features of Student Learning
- How can you support student learning?
- What do you want students to learn?
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- How can you create an inclusive learning environment for all students?
Asynchronous
- Individual work time
Day 2
Synchronous
- Class Time through Active Learning and Structure
- What can you do during class time?
- How do you know if students are learning during class time?
- Wrap-up
Individual teaching consultation
Contact Us
For inquiries or questions, please contact UO program director, global science education initiatives, Elly Vandegrift.