JESSICA THIBEAULT WINS AWARD

JESSICA THIBEAULT WINS AWARD, announced May 2008

In May 2008, fellowship awardees were announced. Jessica is a science education major at Western CT State University and her prpject is titled:

An Effective Model for Teaching Microbiology in the Middle School Classroom: Microbial Growth, Food Preservation, and the Mentor-Assisted Data Set

The target audience is the 7^th grade at E. C. Adams Middle School, Guilford, CT. All members of the teaching team there will use the microbial growth/food preservation project to teach content standards as well as standards relating to scientific method and process. All 3 science teachers will work on this project under the leadership of Mr. Cory Slifstein, teacher and Site

Mentor.

What is the mentor-assisted data set model? See Gyure article published in Focus on Microbiology Education May 2008- click here

ASM's Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship (UTF)

http://www.asm.org/Education/index.asp?bid=51660

The Program

The ASM Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship (UTF) is aimed at highly motivated and competitive students who are interested in a career as an elementary or secondary school science teacher. Students will have the opportunity to develop a project to provide instruction in a scientific discipline in a local school or community setting in partnership with a mentor at their home institution and a teacher or site coordinator from the host site.

Students will:

Develop and conduct an instructional project for a minimum of 12 weeks or 150 hours beginning in the summer of 2009 and ending by February 1, 2010.
Work with ASM faculty mentors at the students home institutions and teachers or coordinators from the sites at which the project will be conducted, and
Submit a research abstract for presentation at the 2010 ASM Conference on Undergraduate Education (May, 2009 - Colorado Springs, Colorado).