The Texas Higher Education Coordination Board recently awarded Texas A&M University a $506,000 grant, which will be used to fund a new training initiative for state teachers.
Focusing on science, technology, engineering and math education, the grant money will establish a Teacher Preparation Academy, stated the university. The program will service middle school and high school teachers, who will learn about technological learning in the classroom as well. Furthermore, the Texas A&M branch will be part of a larger, state-wide initiative designed to promote STEM learning among various schools.
Teachers who receive the training will likely be able to impart STEM knowledge on their students. Accordingly, they may find their efforts best realized by the use of educational technology, such as an e-reader, a STEM computer program or a
DLP projector.
Officials with the university say the training program set up by the state grants will address critical STEM-related issues.
"The shortage of domestic science, technology, engineering and mathematics workforce is well known," said Timothy Scott, a dean at Texas A&M. "Like the national academies, we believe that our first efforts must be to provide the highest quality STEM teachers possible to excite and motivate the next generation of scientists, engineers and physicians.
