Trinity College in Hartford has been awarded a $685,545 grant by the National Science Foundation to educate future teachers in science, technology, engineering and math education. A dozen undergraduates will come to the liberal arts college next summer to teach inner-city students.
Undergraduate students from a network of about 60 liberal arts colleges and universities, Trinity students included, are eligible to apply for the program. Twelve students will participate in a science Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates program at Trinity, teaching science workshops to 10th-grade students from Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy. The grant also will pay for instructors who will train the undergraduates to teach high school students and supervise them in the classroom and in the field.
Robert Cotto, Jr., director of urban educational initiatives and lecturer in educational studies at Trinity, said one of the motivations for the magnet academy partnership is to allow high school students to have a positive, early experience on a college campus. The new TEU program will help to build that relationship and to expand its benefits to undergraduates from many other colleges.
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