In an effort to help students in Connecticut boost their science and math skills, the state's Board of Education recently awarded the University of Connecticut with a grant intended to fund a teacher training program, reported the Manchester Patch.
Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut will use the $380,000 grant to train 27 teachers in math and science leadership, stated the local news provider. Accordingly, the initiative can be viewed as part of a greater national effort to support education in science, technology, engineering and math.
"The overall goal is to instill this high-powered group of teachers with math leadership skills so that they can implement collaborative and research-based instruction, as well as mentor others teachers," Mary Truxaw, co-director at the Math Leadership Academy at UConn, told the media organization.
In order to teach math and science to their students, teachers may also employ educational technology, such as a graphing calculator, a STEM computer program or a
DLP projector. Often, student attentiveness is increased by these devices.
A renewed focus on STEM education has gripped the United States in recent months, as it is becoming increasingly clear that the country is falling behind developing nations, such as China and Brazil, in this sector, stated the Patch.
