More STEM Education Programs at CU
Alliance for Technology Learning & Society (ATLAS) creates and facilitates innovative interdisciplinary reserach, eduational, createive, and outreach programs in which information and communication technology is an enabling force.
BeSocratic offers examples of various Socratic, i.e. metacognitive, exercises and activities designed to provocative explicit articulation and reflection on various scientific and mathematical ideas and skills.
Biological Sciences Initative offers multiple programs for students and teachers of the biological sciences including many free programs for K-12 teachers and paid research opportunities to undergraduates at CU.
CIRES Education and Outreach educates people about Earth and environmental science issues that are relevant to our everyday lives, through outreach to the public and to the K-12 education community. They also run a GK12 project.
Colorado Diversity Initative offers award assistantships to incoming underrepresented graduate students and provides them with professional development opportunities, as well as support for undergraduate research efforts.
Colorado Momentum Implements oral assessment in courses in Applied Math that have improved student's passing rate in Calc I and Calc II.
CU President's Teaching Scholoars Program is designed to honor faculty who have excelled in effective and exemplary teaching, creative work, scholarship, and research. The President’s Teaching Scholars are chosen from three campuses designated not only for skill in their own classrooms, but for their promise of improving education and enlarging its possibilities across the University.
CU Science Discovery offers an myriad of summer, after-school, and overnight informal science camps. Science Discovery brings the expertise of CU into the community.
CU Teach is Colorado's innovative secondary mathematics and science teacher education program that offers leadership training to all undergraduates interested in science and mathematics education at all levels.
eCSite- Engaging Computer Science in Traditional Education oversees two GK12 projects in Computer Scinece and Engineerging
Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities presents a unique opportunity for educating a new generation of engineers who contribute to the relief of the problems faced by developing communities worldwide. The Center emphasizes an integrated and participatory nature of humanitarian development.
Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (FTEP) develops the art and craft of teaching among faculty and has been "teaching teaching" to professors, because good teaching is rarely innate, but is rather a learned skill. FTEP is founded on the principles that there is no one right way to teach and that faculty learn best from one another. These processes vary by discipline and vary with faculty members' own styles.
Fiske Planetarium and Science Center is a resrouce for STEM faculty wishing integrate hands-on learning in non-lab courses. A popular field trip destination, Fiske has a strong K12 outreach program and also develops nationally disseminated planetarium cirriculum.
Graduate Teaching Program (GTP): Provides professional development opportuntites for all graduate student from all colleges based on students' current teaching, research, and service responsibilities and on future career goals.
Herbst Program for the Humanities: equips engineering students with the right tools to gain intelligent and relevant access to the great ongoing conversations of human existence. They offer small core classes (12-14) that are highly interactive and practical.
Integrated Teaching and Learning Program & Lab provides and hands on learning environement for introductory engineering courses. Inaddition to the lab and all of its resources, the ITL program offers a K12 outreach program that utilizes GK12 fudning.
Physics Education Research Group
one of the newest and largest research programs in PER in the nation.
JILA PFC Education & Outreach: PISEC- Partnerships for informal Science Education in the Community
provides opportunities for university students (undergraduates, graduate students, and post docs) to teach inquiry-based science activities to K-12 populations under represented in science, such as Hispanic, African American, and economically disadvantaged youth.
LASP Education and Outreach has an extensice k12 outreach and teacher professional development program that offers cirriculular resources and activies.
Learning Assistant Program provides course trasnformation for large-enrollemnt courses while recruiting the best and brightest STEM majors into STEM teaching.
Physics Education Technology Project provides free, research-based physics and chemistry interactive simulations for the classroom
National Center for Women & Information Technology
is a coalition of more than 170 prominent corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profits working to increase women's participation in information technology (IT).
Science Education Initiative is a university- supported, 5-year, $5million project to improve how we teach science to all undergraduate students.
This is only a partial listing of the STEM education programs at CU Boulder