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K-12 Teacher Professional Development


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"Like Whitaker Biomedical Research Grants, PTEI serves as an excellent seeding grant mechanism to help junior faculty to begin. This is one of the nice things I recall about Pittsburgh where I lived and worked for six years. Without it, I would not have gotten as far and I would have struggled more."

Yingtian Pan, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook


PTEI is committed to providing middle and high school educators with opportunities to:

  1. Broaden their knowledge of science through regenerative medicine;
  2. Develop new pedagogical approaches to this highly interdisciplinary field;
  3. Participate in curriculum development utilizing a standards-based, hands-on, inquiry-based approach; and,
  4. Further disseminate this new information to fellow educators and students through a variety of school-based and professional association workshops.

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PTEI also offers innovative curriculum materials, classroom resources, and workshops and special events to support teachers in their roles.
alt Summer Research Experience
alt Curriculum Development
alt Classroom Resources
alt Workshops and Special Events
alt FREE Teacher Pass to Carnegie Science Center

TERMIS EU 2008, Porto, Portugal

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TERMIS NA 2007

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“If a Starfish Can Grow a New Arm, Why Can’t I?”

Connecting TE to the Classroom
A PTEI/CSC/ASSET Partnership

 

ASSET will provide training opportunities for teachers who are interested in infusing Tissue Engineering education in their classrooms. By attending this professional development session, teachers will have an understanding of the content involved in Tissue Engineering in order to make the appropriate connections between the Carnegie Science Center exhibit and their classroom. Even if teachers are not ASSET district members, or decide not to attend the exhibit, the professional development will provide tools to begin making connections into their classrooms.

For additional information, please contact:
Deborah Spencer, ASSET Program Manager, dspencer@assetinc.org or
Sarah Chesney, ASSET Resource Teacher, schesney@assetinc.org
Office Phone: 412.481.7320

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Through the Summer Research Experience, middle and high school teachers take part in an innovative 6-week summer program in which they work in a research laboratory at one of the region’s laboratories. Past participants have developed content for PTEI’s “Education Outreach Manual in Tissue Engineering”, planned workshops on a variety of professional development topics for their peers, and contributed in other ways to the advancement of PTEI’s educational goals.