2015 Jackson Laboratory Teaching Sabbaticals
The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) and The University of Maine would like to announce the final Teacher Research Sabbatical program: a paid academic-year research experience open to all STEM teachers in Maine and other rural New England states. This will be the LAST year for the sabbatical program as JAX shifts resources to a more broadly-disseminated model for teacher professional development in genomics.
Teacher Research Interns will work full-time for the spring semester with a biomedical scientist at The Jackson Laboratory, an internationally recognized genetics research institute in Bar Harbor, Maine.
The goals of the program are to give teachers a deeper understanding of the process of science and to help teachers develop curricula that emphasize guided inquiry and a culture of science in the classroom. There are no prerequisites and expertise in genetics is not necessary.
Stipend and Housing. Teachers receive a $28,000 salary for the semester internship, which runs from mid-January to mid-May. Housing is available for a low cost in lab-owned homes within walking distance of the JAX campus in Bar Harbor, Maine, and each teacher receives a $1,500 housing stipend. Course tuition (see below) is included in this sabbatical program; however, UMaine fees are the responsibility of the teacher.
Course credit. In addition to research, the program includes a 3-credit UMaine course “Research-related Curriculum Development in Science and Mathematics”, taught by Dr. Michelle Smith (http://umaine.edu/risecenter/directory/faculty-page/michelle-smith/).
Dates. Mid-January through mid-May 2015.
Applications are due September 22nd, 2014.
For complete information and an online application, please see the following website:
http://education.jax.org/teachers-sabbatical.html
Read about one teacher’s sabbatical experience in “Spirit of discovery”!