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| Subject: Change agents: Education specialists a growing force at CSU campuses Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:36 pm | |
| There is so much emphasis placed on STEM skills and boosting students' understanding and interest in these fields. But are school teachers and college faculty able to engage their students and deliver teaching in a way that makes it hands-on and gives them the ability to tackle and solve real-life problems?
This is where science faculty with education specialties (SFES) come in, with the unique ability to help their colleagues and K-12 teachers improve science education in the classroom. Their purpose is threefold: conduct research on how students learn science, improve teacher training and recruitment so they are better equipped to empower their students with science skills, and help college science faculty improve curricula and become even better educators. SFES are growing in number across California State University (CSU) campuses, and university administrators recognize their value and the impact they're making. "With SFES as change agents, we are able to produce students who can reason better, solve problems we can't even imagine exist today, and transfer their understanding of science to everyday problems," said Kathy Williams, professor emerita of biology at San Diego State University and a faculty member of SDSU's Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education (CRMSE).
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-agents-specialists-csu-campuses.html |
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