What is TGLL?
Think Globally, Learn Locally (TGLL) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) G-12K program administered through the Department of Biology at the University of Utah. This program pairs graduate students from the hard science with secondary teachers in the Salt Lake City School District. Throughout the course of a year the fellows work in the classroom of their teacher co-teaching, leading hands-on labs, and conducting in-the-field field trips around the valley.
GK-12 programs were started out of a desire to improve the teaching skills of upcoming professors in the sciences: aka graduate students! The NSF hoped that by placing graduate students in K-12 classrooms to teach along side veteran teachers the graduate students would gain communication and pedagogy skills that would make them better mentors, lab managers, and instructors. Since its inception in 1999, the GK-12 Program has funded over 200 projects, an impressive outcome. Teachers, students, and fellows all benefit from this experience. Teachers improve their teaching methods and gain professional development, students learn to engage with science in the same way that their fellow does, and the fellows improve their communication and time management skills, improve their self-reflection of their research, as well as working among a cohort of graduate students in many fields. |
This Year's TGLL Fellow-Teacher Pairs:
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