Working Together: Preparing the Next Generation of Highly Qualified Middle-School STEM Teachers

ABSTRACT

In response to the demand to produce highly qualified teachers to fill teacher vacancies in high-need middle school areas while simultaneously strengthening the teacher preparation process, this article highlights how an innovative partnership with a very large school district and multiple colleges within a metropolitan university resulted in a collaboration to rethink and retool teacher preparation for the next generation of middle school STEM teachers.

KEYWORDS:

• Middle school
• STEM
• teacher preparation
• clinically rich

Additional information

Funding

Helios Education Foundation Grant (Helios STEM Middle School Residency Program: Transforming STEM Teacher Preparation for the Transition Years). Foundation site: http://www.helios.org.