Please join us at the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) for lunch and a tour, as well as a chance to talk about the RiSE Center’s nationally and internationally recognized research into teaching and learning in the STEM disciplines.
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Join us to learn about the RiSE Center’s work to address Maine’s STEM teacher shortage through its Master of Science in Teaching Program. It has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Teaching Fellowship Program grant to support 21 selected new science and mathematics teachers and their mentors, while studying the challenges teachers face in high-need, rural districts and the supports that are most helpful to them.
You’ll also have an opportunity to learn about how the RiSE Center supports rigorous and engaging instruction for Maine students by applying research findings and conducting new research. The Maine STEM Partnership at the RiSE Center, a statewide STEM education improvement community, reaches over 4800 PreK-12 students annually with high quality science instructional resources and supports their teachers with targeted professional learning experiences. With NSF funding, thirty of these teachers at the middle level are working with RiSE and Computing and Information Science faculty to integrate computing into middle school science and study its impacts.
RiSE also works with over 30 STEM faculty and 150 Maine Learning Assistants as they modify undergraduate classroom experiences to more actively engage students in STEM learning using research-based approaches.