Scientist in the Classroom Partnerships
The Scientist in the Classroom Partnership (SCP) Program establishes partnerships between science teaching fellows (STFs) and Nashville middle school science teachers. The STFs are graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) who collaborate with educators in middle school science classrooms one day a week throughout the school year. STFs focus on working with teacher partners to develop and implement hands-on, inquiry-based activities, providing classroom demonstrations, assisting with tutoring students and directing student research projects.
News About the SCP
On September 16, first graders at Hattie Cotton Elementary School learned about using different standard units to measure playground equipment. With popsicle sticks, sponge noodles, spoons, and felt wires in hand, students discovered that when measuring the same objects in the playground they get...
On August 24, Nashville's WSMV Channel 4 highlighted the Scientist in the Classroom Partnership's (SCP) first foray into Metropolitan Nashville Public School's (MNPS) elementary schools with a story about Leah Potter, a Vanderbilt doctoral student in molecular physiology and biophysics working with...
Hattie Cotton Elementary School is the new science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) magnet in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). Teachers are spending their summer in professional development sessions focusing on STEM subjects and incorporating STEM into all other areas of the...
Science Teaching Fellows (STFs) and partner teachers from the Scientist in the Classroom Partnership gathered at the Martin Professional Development Center on May 10 to celebrate the end of a successful school year. Teachers and scientists reflected upon the day they met almost a year ago and...
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee State University, Meharry Medical College, and Fisk University interested in teaching science in local public schools one day per week are encouraged to apply to for a Scientist in the Classroom Partnership.The program,...
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Partnerships with Metro Nashville Public Schools
- Scientist in the Classroom Partnerships
- School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt
- Interdisciplinary Science and Research Program
- Vanderbilt Science Support Center
- Volunteer Scientist in the Classroom Partnerships
