Grant aims to improve STEM instruction
Thanks to a $2.1 million study funded by the National Science Foundation, the UGA College of Engineering and the UGA College of Education will develop a model course that prepares elementary school teachers to more efficiently teach mathematics, science, and coding using interdisciplinary approaches, which may help increase student motivation in STEM fields of study.
The research team, which includes four investigators in the College of Education, is collaborating with the Jackson County School District during the 2018 spring semester to provide professional development for a group of elementary school teachers enrolled in a robotics for teachers course designed by Roger Hill, a professor in the College of Education’s Department of Career and Information Studies and a co-principal investigator of the project.