Apply for $2000 scholarship for PD to add a STEM subject certification; or to qualify to teach dual enrollment
Certified AZ teachers: apply NOW for a $2,000 professional development (PD) scholarship. Teachers have three years to use the $2000.
Apply at https://www.azed.gov/titlei/pd-pilot-program
Professional development must support a certificated teacher in gaining additional credentials (e.g., qualify to teach dual enrollment physics or chemistry) and/or certifications in math, a science subject, technology, engineering or career & technical education.
Don’t delay! Teachers can re-apply EACH year, for the next 1 1/2 year ONLY, for another $2000.
WHY THE NEED?
Arizona has dire shortages of qualified, effective high school teachers in physics and chemistry.
* Only ~160 physics-certified teachers teach high school physics. Only 20% of AZ high schoolers take physics.
* MCCCD lost HALF of its dual enrollment teachers due to the new Higher Learning Commission requirement of 18 graduate credits in the content area, the president of Paradise Valley CC said in fall 2018.
* 20% of Arizona public district high schools eliminated physics after the recession of 2008.
Download feedback from 7 teachers who used their $2000 scholarship from 2017: see
http://modeling.asu.edu/AZ/$2000scholarshipsFeedback2019.pdf
Please share with educators in your networks. Thanks!
Colin Waite
Director Cooper Center for Environmental Learning
Department of Teaching, Learning & Socio-cultural Studies
University of Arizona College of Education
PO Box 210069
Tucson, AZ 85721
Office Phone: (520)626-1825
Cooper Phone: (520)743-7422
Fax: (520)621-1853
http://coopercenter.arizona.edu