Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Make SURE you're shinning in the field.

In the second week of the Summer Undergraduate Research Educator (SURE) program, these confident ladies are placed in the Atlanta Public School (APS) summer program in midtown Atlanta.
These SUREs are able to implement their math/science activities with the 9th-graders in Summer Academy.

They are making progress gradually and surely!



Wednesday, May 27, 2015

[Hiring] STEM Education Graduate Assistant

Position Job Title: Graduate Assistant for STEM education
Program: Capacity Building: Spelman's STEM Teach Education Pipeline (SSTEP)
Supervisor of this position: Shannon Hsianghan-Huang Sung (email: spelmanstep@gmail.com)

Job Duties and Qualifications

The graduate student, during the academic year to work from 5-15 hours per week ($15/hour, maximum 20 hours/week during summer) for the duration of the program period. The student will be involved with:

1) Help with the development of survey and data analysis:
     Survey development (e.g., research-based item construction; Google document, Doodle Poll, upload the information to Dropbox; web-page maintenance)    
     qualitative (e.g., transcribing files into texts, Moodle data analysis)
     quantitative data analysis (e.g., basic descriptive data analysis by using SPSS);
2) Search for research articles relevant to the project (e.g., annotated bibliography)
3) Compile supplementary media resources to demonstrate instructional strategy;
4) Participate in the activities with UTAs and SUREs;
5) Assists the Project Manager with overall logistics of the SSTEP program (e.g., recruiting project participants, coordinating meetings with participating school district, and occasional observation of cooperating teachers, mentors, and mentoring sessions).


Please attach your CV to this website: http://goo.gl/GTQVbV
or send your CV to spelmanstep@gmail.com with the file title: LastName.pdf (e.g., Sung.pdf)


STEM Undergraduate Research Educator (SURE) Program will kick off June 1st , 2015

SSTEP program had recruited 9 freshman and sophomore math and science majors to transition from the role of undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA) to become STEM Undergraduate Research Educator (SURE).

Here are some photos taken during the UTA's mini-teaching sessions in the designated classrooms they served as peer tutors. Thanks to the mentors who agreed to spare some class time for the UTAs to enact their lesson plan in class.





Friday, February 27, 2015

Summer Undergraduate Research Educator (SURE) program recruit!

Dear STEM Majors,

We are recruiting 10 students to work with 9th-graders in June.
If you're not sure whether becoming math or science teacher is the right thing for you,
this SURE program will serve as excellent opportunity for you to have direct impact on student learning.

Start filling out the application online http://goo.gl/forms/Rr1cyNbv8z.

Don't hesitate to email Dr. Shannon Sung @ spelmanstep@gmail.com if you have any questions!


Friday, January 30, 2015

UTA kicks off

The Spelman's UTAs began their first week observation from Jan. 26th.
The STEM Undergraduate Research Educator (SURE) Summer Program application will be announced soon!