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DRL Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) |
Recipient: |
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Initial Amendment Date: | September 16, 2004 |
Latest Amendment Date: | August 29, 2009 |
Award Number: | 0412404 |
Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
Program Manager: |
Joan T Prival
DRL Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) EDU Directorate for STEM Education |
Start Date: | September 1, 2004 |
End Date: | June 30, 2012 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: | $5,000,000.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $6,232,915.00 |
Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2008 = $599,925.00 FY 2009 = $632,990.00 |
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Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
3451 WALNUT ST STE 440A PHILADELPHIA PA US 19104-6205 (215)898-7293 |
Sponsor Congressional District: |
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Primary Place of Performance: |
3451 WALNUT ST STE 440A PHILADELPHIA PA US 19104-6205 |
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NSF Program(s): |
MSP-TEACHER INSTITUTES, Robert Noyce Scholarship Pgm, Teaching & Mstr Tchng Fellows |
Primary Program Source: |
04000910DB NSF Education & Human Resource app-04S8 0400PYXXDB NSF Education & Human Resource |
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Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.076 |
ABSTRACT
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) School of Arts and Sciences Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Mathematics, and Physics, in collaboration with the Graduate School of Education (GSE), is establishing the Penn Science Teachers Institute (Penn STI) in a major effort to engage in the development and retention of highly qualified science teachers in middle and secondary grades. The Penn STI, managed through the Department of Chemistry, provides content intensive master degree programs for developing content, pedagogy, and leadership skills for science teachers. This Institute is aimed at the mid-Atlantic region and 20 area schools/districts in the mid-Atlantic region and includes four major components:
1) An 8-science/2-science education course Master of Integrated Science Education degree program designed for current middle level science teachers.
2) An 8-chemistry/2-science education course Master of Chemistry Education degree
program designed for current high school science teachers.
3) A resource center supporting participating and graduate teachers as they become teacher leaders and implement classroom reforms in their schools.
4) An Administrator's Science/Math Academy designed for school administrators to
become better prepared to create a school environment conducive to improved science
teaching and learning.
Up to100 middle level science teachers and 100 high school science teachers are expected to participate in the degree programs, along with approximately 200 school administrators. The 200 science teachers who graduate from the content intensive programs, supported by their administrators and a university-based resource center, are expected to fundamentally change the teaching and learning of science in middle and secondary level classrooms in the region, benefiting the learning of science by tens of thousands of students yearly.
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