Faculty Opportunities
Faculty Opportunities
Active Learning Workshops
- Attend one of several discipline-specific workshops and seminars across the country that provide intensive guidance on the design and implementation of active learning in STEM classrooms.
- Attend a one-week summer course to learn relatively easy techniques to implement in a STEM classroom.
Course Development
- Join a cohort of faculty who receive a small stipend to formally redesign an undergraduate course, which integrates active learning as a major component of the pedagogy.
- Assist with the development of future summer courses intended to close the barriers of success in core STEM courses. (Financial compensation available)
Summer Academies for Incoming STEM majors
- Join a team of instructors who develop and/or teach an active learning summer STEM academy (compensation is available). This academy will be designed to help incoming STEM majors earn an A or B in their first STEM course that’s traditional been very difficult for our students.
Intro to STEM Research course
- Teach a team-taught STEM research course.
- Mentor 1-3 sophomore or junior students in a course designed to involve students in a STEM research project.
Guest Speakers
- Opportunities to be informally involved with the STEM research course as a guest speaker highlighting STEM educational and career information.
For more information on any of these opportunities, please contact stemcenter@shsu.edu