Top Educators to Teach at GTP Summer STEM Program
The Global Teaching Project’s 9th annual Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program, to be held at Mississippi State University from June 9-13th, will feature top instructors, teaching assistants, and staff from Mississippi and around the country.
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The annual Summer Program, which is free to attend, helps prepare students for the rigor of AP classes they will take through GTP in the upcoming school year.
GTP serves promising high school students from rural, high poverty communities who have the aptitude and work ethic needed to succeed, but who often have significant gaps in their substantive foundations, which the Summer Program helps close. Students attending past Summer Programs were found to have made “statistically significant” gains in understanding of substantive content, according to independent assessments.
The Summer Program will again be led by accomplished, AP-certified instructors in each subject, including a recent
National Science Foundation honoree as one of the nation’s top science teachers; a professor of Secondary Science Education at the University of Mississippi School of Education who previously was a highly successful AP STEM teacher; and a Northeastern University professor who is the lead author of the nation’s most widely used AP Biology textbook.
Those lead instructors will be assisted by resident counselors and tutors from Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Stanford, Virginia Tech, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. We are particularly pleased that some former GTP students will be on staff.
In addition, classroom teachers from participating high schools also will attend portions of the Summer Program so they may work with their students and participate in sessions with the lead instructors.
We are grateful that our students will have the opportunity to learn from these outstanding educators, and look forward to both a productive Summer Program and a successful year ahead.
