Welcome
From the Director
Welcome to the ETSU Center of Excellence in STEM Education (CESE). Founded in 2005, the Center is a collaborative partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Technology, and the Clemmer College. Whether you are a student, potential student, PK-12 educator, higher education faculty member, or STEM educator colleague, we trust that you will find information of value at this site. In particular, you will learn here about some of the exciting projects and activities supported by the Center.
Our VISION is: To achieve excellence in STEM education at all levels, PK - 16.
We believe that we can achieve excellence in STEM teaching and learning as well as help shape public policy in STEM education at all levels. You will notice how actively we collaborate with faculty members from our governing Colleges, and indeed from STEM-related departments and units across the university.
CESE continues to receive substantial grant support to help support its goals. Our efforts are multi-pronged and include
- Conducting research on effective classroom learning and teaching;
- Actively engaging in STEM professional development in a fashion that is aligned with local, state, and national priorities and guidelines;
- Supporting undergraduate and graduate research, as well as undergraduate and graduate education in STEM;
- Promoting integrated learning across the disciplines using STEM as a focus;
- Enabling our colleagues across campus to include STEM learning as a component of their research proposals; and
- Facilitating workforce development and increased STEM participation by members of underrepresented groups.
ETSU has always stood for excellence in STEM teaching and learning. As we extend our reach into the disciplinary and interdisciplinary realm of STEM, my colleagues and I look forward to a new decade of excellence. Towards 2025!
Alissa A. Lange, Ph.D., Interim Executive Director
ETSU Center of Excellence in STEM Education
2022 Regional meeting for the Northeast Tennessee STEM Innovation Hub
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
| Eastman Scholars Mathletes and SciencElites Project: The ESMP is a long-term effort to improve mathematics and science education in the
region's schools. Supporting by the Eastman Chemical Company, the project seeks to
deepen teacher content knowledge in the mathematics and science fields for grades
3-8, close the mathematics and science achievement gap, increase the number of teachers
participating in mathematics and science professional development, align the math
and science curriculum with the state math and science standards and provide training
in standards-based resources and materials. The Eastman SciencElites program has been
in effect since 2006. |
| Northeast Tennessee STEM Hub Operations and Innovative Educator Workshops - Year 2022: Supported by TSIN and Battelle Education, the grant supports the subjects of Epidemiology
and Synthetic Biology. The goal is to provide sustained professional development
(PD) workshops to area teachers in the STEM education field with a special focus on
grades 7-12 Project Based Learning, grades 3-5 Computer Science, grades 7-12 Synthetic
Biology and grades 7-12 Epidemiology. These workshops will be held for five days
in May, 2022. |
| 2022 Tennessee Governor's School in the Integration of Biological and Statistical Sciences: Supported by the Tennessee Department of Education and held at the ETSU main campus. This Tennessee Governor's School provides a high-intensity program for rising 11th and 12th grade students nominated by high school faculty. We offer a unique learning environment for students interested in the STEM programs. Thirty students from the surrounding ninety-five (95) Tennessee counties are accepted into the program each year. The GS IB&SS program has been in effect since 2006. |
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iSLICEE Grant: The Science Literacy Initiative at CESE with Dr. Chih-Che Tai https://sites.google.com/view/islicee/home
iSLICEE Grant: East Tennessee State University is the recipient of the project, Integrating STEM and Literacy with Computation in Elementary Education (iSLICEE) funded by the United States Department of Education's Teacher Quality Program between 10/1/2018 and 9/30/2023. The iSLICEE is an elementary education program that supports teaching candidates to learn how to incorporate digital learning and teaching skills into the classroom as well as computational thinking and STEM techniques. |
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Rural Tennessee STEM LD: Supported by the Niswonger Foundation, the grant supports the subjects of Epidemiology,
Statistics with R and Global Information Systems.
*August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 *January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024
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