POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN EDUCATION
Education Research CollaborativeTERCCambridge, MA The Education Research Collaborative (ERC) at TERC, a not-for-profit research and development institution focusing on education in STEM fields, in Cambridge, MA, invites applications for a two-year residential research fellowship. The fellowship program is focused broadly on transformative research on teaching and learning that intentionally seeks to expand formal and/or informal educational opportunities for children, youth and adults from historically underrepresented communities. We are particularly interested in work focused in the sciences, » Read more
TERC’s iSWOOP2.0 Launches National Science Communications Program in Acadia
National Science Foundation funded project brings scientific research at national parks to the public May 16, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Ken Mayerken_mayer@terc.edu617.873.9670 Cambridge, MA —TERC and its partners at Winston-Salem State University will unveil a nation-wide effort to communicate the scientific research happening in and around America’s national parks at Acadia National Park (ANP) the week of May 16. Park rangers from ANP, Joshua Tree in California, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, the Boston Harbor Islands, » Read more
TERC Hosts NSF 2016 STEM for All Video Showcase
Open event features more than 150 education research initiatives May 10, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cambridge, MA — The NSF Video Showcase “STEM for All” runs from May 17th – 23rd, http://stemforall2016.videohall.com. This open and free event features three-minute video presentations from more than 150 projects aimed at improving STEM education that are funded by the National Science Foundation. The public is invited to view the videos, join the discussion online with presenters, and vote for the most effective presentations through social media. » Read more
Cambridge Science Festival 2016
TERC workshops at the Cambridge Science Festival Wednesday, April 20, 2016 TERC project workshops at the 10th anniversary Cambridge Science Festival were full and fun. Check out the projects that were represented this year. Say It With Shapes and Numbers Jugando juegos, construyendo torres, y contando cuentos … Todo con las matemáticas. (Play games, build towers, and tell stories—all with math!) Explore ways to mix the math of sizes, shapes, patterns, logic, and numbers into just about everything you do with projects and activities that mix in math. » Read more
National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM)
Productive Lingering: Elementary Students Learn about Structure of the Operations through Representation-based Argument (Spotlight Speaker) Presenters: Susan Jo Russell (TERC) April 13, 2016 at 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Abstract: Too often representations are passed over quickly, as if what they illustrate is obvious. What does it look like when grades 2-5 students spend focused time creating, comparing, and analyzing representations in order to understand the structure and behavior of the operations? Video examples from our research will be used to examine these questions When the numbers are there, » Read more
TERC at AERA 2016
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Friday, April 8 – Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Washington, DC Snowballing as a methodological approach for research literature synthesis in education: Synthesizing literature on women of color in engineering. Fri, April 8, 12:00 to 1:30pm | Convention Center, Level Three, Ballroom A Presenters: Nuria Jaumot-Pascual, TERC; Maria (Mia) Ong, TERC; Lily Ko, TERC; Apriel K. Hodari, Council for Opportunity in Education Few scholars share detailed methods for producing literature syntheses of qualitative research. » Read more
TERC Board Names Interim Leader Laurie Brennan President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Ken Mayerken_mayer@terc.edu617.873.9670 Cambridge, MA — The TERC Board of Trustees announced today the permanent appointment of Laurie Brennan as TERC president. Brennan, a senior management leader at TERC for more than a decade, has been serving as interim president for the past 18 months. “The Board is unanimous and confident we have the right person to move TERC forward in its mission to improve STEM education,” said Board Chair George Hein. » Read more
New Science Game Testers Needed
TERC, Inc. is looking for students in grades 5-8 to test a prototype of a new, serious science game being designed to support independent, personalized learning of NGSS topics in Structure and Properties of Matter, Space Systems and other areas. As part of the game, students enter a virtual world as Avatars, where they can do space/time travel,ask questions of expert Avatars (e.g., Albert Einstein), anduse what they learn to help them make strategic game choices. » Read more
McGraw-Hill Releases TERC’s EMPower Plus to Help More Adult Learners Earn High School Equivalency Certificates
November 10, 2015 TERC has revised and enhanced its groundbreaking mathematics curriculum for adult learners. Now available from McGraw-Hill EMPower Plus builds the conceptual foundation necessary for students to succeed on the mathematics portion of high school equivalency exams, and teaches the math skills needed to excel in 21st century careers. To individualize the learning experience, educators can combine EMPower Plus with ALEKS, McGraw-Hill Education’s adaptive learning platform for math, to meet each learner where he or she needs to be met in order to develop their skills efficiently and effectively. » Read more