The 2021 SEF Program Application is NOW OPEN!!

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The 2021 Virtual Summer Educator Fellowship (SEF) is a 4-week program that provides classroom teachers with the opportunity to interactively learn about hands-on, project-based research from research labs in the Colleges/Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Education and Human Development and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Teachers also work with faculty and trainees to translate these experiences into authentic, research-inspired educational modules.

The selected teachers are expected to attend and participate in the K-12 Summer Institute (SI) professional development conference as part of their fellowship program each summer. The Institute is held the week following the research programs.Teachers are not paid for the week of the Summer Institute but they attend the conference free of charge.See www.k12summerinstitute.org for more information. 

The summer research programs this year are organized in a way that encourages collaboration between classroom teachers and TAMU faculty, allowing the teachers to bring their knowledge about required education standards, sequence of topics required by school district, pedagogical approaches that have proven successful in the classroom. The faculty  bring knowledge of “real world” laboratory techniques and analytical skills that are feasable in the classroom to the development of the new modules and hands-on-activities. This collaboration will ensure that the new modules meet the educational needs of the students and are designed with the consideration of practical classroom realities.

Ongoing Evaluation Activities during 2021-2022 School Year: Pilot and test lessons/activities in classrooms, participate in program evaluation meetings and surveys.