{"id":11271,"date":"2012-07-17T16:55:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T21:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=11271"},"modified":"2018-11-06T12:57:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:57:05","slug":"npt-reports-stem-boot-camp-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2012\/07\/17\/npt-reports-stem-boot-camp-for-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"NPT Reports: STEM Boot Camp for Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lgFgbYze0wQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to science class, some teachers are just as intimidated as their students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a little nervous because I know nothing about science,\u201d says Dorcas Wallace, an experienced middle school teacher who was recently asked to teach the\u00a0 4th grade science classes at her school. \u201cIt meant I had to go back and do a lot of research and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallace spent a week this summer in Nashville attending a teacher boot camp for STEM\u2014science, technology, engineering, and math.<\/p>\n<p>About 2 dozen middle school teachers from across Tennessee came together at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuresci.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adventure Science Center <\/a>in a quest to learn how to make science and math more interesting for their students. For most, it means stepping out of their comfort zones<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cGet to know your squid!\u201d barks the leader of the boot camp. She wears camouflage, boots, and paces the room like a sergeant, overseeing the teachers as they dissect their squids.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the teachers at this boot camp teach some science; but few are trained as science teachers. Their challenge is not in\u00a0knowing the content\u2014but how to effectively deliver it, says Detra Thomas, who has taught 8th grade science for 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not taught to teach this way; and this is a much more fun way of learning,\u201d says Thomas. \u201cIt\u2019s hands on. It\u2019s more fun for us!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It can also be a little messy, as Thomas learned first hand when squid juice squirted in her eye and on her sweater during the dissection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I did everything right, but when I cut into it, the ink just squirted all over me,\u201d laughs Thomas. \u201cIt was a little bit of a scare, but that\u2019s okay. We cleaned up okay! And the kids would love it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Science should be fun, according to officials with Adventure Science Center. But there is nothing fun\u00a0 about the state of science education in this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThe United States, who put a man on the moon decades ago, now is 17th ranked out of 30 in industrial nations in our kids being prepared and proficient in science,\u201d says Susan Duvenhage, president of Adventure Science Center.<\/p>\n<p>Duvenhage says this boot camp is itself an experiment&#8211; the first to connect the center\u2019s professional science and technology educators with school teachers for training. She hopes the camp will catch on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c80% of the teachers in teaching now don\u2019t have a special certification in science. It\u2019s a general certification,&#8221; explains Duvenhage. &#8220;So we like to think that by offering the STEM Boot Camp, it\u2019s an opportunity for the teachers to become comfortable with science in a fun hands-on approachable way that will also resonate with their kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas believes the result will be a chain reaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen other students that are in 6th or 7th grade hear from my students what we\u2019ve done in Ms. Thomas\u2019 class and we\u2019ve either blown this up, or we\u2019ve cut this apart.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the paperwork, it\u2019s not the book work, it\u2019s a hands-on type of learning.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to science class, some teachers are just as intimidated as their students. \u201cI was a little nervous because I know nothing about science,\u201d says Dorcas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-npt-reports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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