Collection

2009 GSW

Authors

James (“Jim”) R. Morgan; Luciana R. Barroso

Science, (2) enhancing critical thinking skills, and (3) raisinginternal expectations of academic success for both students and teachers.Each high school working with the NT-STEM Center has a design team composed of a professorof education, a STEM professor, and graduate students. All of the education faculty and most ofthe graduate students in the teams have years of high school teaching experience. Thecomposition of these teams allows for perceived credibility, STEM content expertise,pedagogical knowledge, and models cross-disciplinary collaboration.The approach chosen for the NT-STEM Center is to incorporate project-based learning as a toolto achieve goals through making learning relevant and exciting! Implementing rigorous teachingand