Description: The School for Scientific Thought (SST) aims to provide UCSB science and engineering graduate students the opportunity to design and teach a five-session hands-on course, on a topic of their choice, for an audience of local and regional high school students. The SST is designed to benefit high school students and teachers, graduate students, faculty mentors, the local technical industry, and the national state of science as a whole.
Activities: Following the application and submission of a course proposal, graduate students selected to teach in the program will meet in June for an informational meeting. Graduates will then use the Summer or Fall for designing their course curriculum with guidance from a mentor. In early-August, Fall SST graduates will engage in a three-day training workshop structured to support and refine their upcoming work with high school students. In addition to course refinement and pedagogy, graduates will create a short “teaser” presentation that they will provide at local schools as a recruitment tool for the SST. The Winter instructors will have their three-day training in November.
Graduate students will teach their course (can include lab) in the morning (10:00 am-12:15pm) in either Fall, 2012 or Winter, 2013 over five Saturdays (dates to be determined).
Calendar of Mandatory Events
- Orientation meeting TBA. (Not Mandatory but suggested)
- At least two meetings with at faculty at UCSB (can be your research advisor) to review your course design before Fall or Winter training session.
- Summer training session in August for Fall or Fall training session in November for Winter courses. Training session will build on your course design.
- Teaching SST course over five consecutive Saturdays in either Fall or Winter quarter, 2012-2013.
How to apply:
Applications and Letter of recommendation from your research advisor are due May 25, 2012.
Based on the application and letter of recommendation graduate students will be invited for an interview. Applicants will be notified starting June 15 as to their status.
Partial Fellowships will be awarded at the level of $4000 for full completion of the program or $2000 per student if you share course design and teaching. All students must attend the training.
Application for 2012-13 available here
Letter of Recommendation from your faculty advisor can be sent via email to Wendy Ibsen at ibsen@cnsi.ucsb.edu
Please contact us at sst@cnsi.ucsb.edu with further questions.
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