In July 2013, I joined with a team of five teachers on a field residency to Syngenta sites in Minnesota, Washington, DC, and North Carolina. After the field experience, participants engaged in a week of sponsored lesson-planning time, allowing teachers to translate their findings into learning activities and curriculum materials for students. Participating teachers represented Atkins Academic & Technology
...It’s funny how back to school anxiety never goes away. From kindergarten through my fourth year of teaching, I still find myself staring at the ceiling late at night in the days before school starts. My coworkers and I joke about it. We all have the Back-to-School Nightmares: the out-of-control classroom, the lost lesson plan, the forgotten ability to
...The acronym “STEM” — shorthand for science, technology, engineering and mathematics — is a loaded term. For some of my colleagues who also teach in humanities fields, I confuse them when I mention that I am a STEM teacher.
“You teach language arts, yet you call yourself a STEM teacher?” “Isn’t STEM an acronym for people who teach science and
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