Would you like to use your technical knowledge and expertise to prepare Delaware’s children for successful lives and careers?
The College of Education and Human Development at the University of Delaware offers a STEM Residency Program, designed to attract people are interested in becoming teachers who have knowledge and experience in the critical fields of science, technology, engineering or math. This intensive 10-month master’s in teaching degree prepares Residents to teach science or math in
high-needs schools in Delaware.
If you are interested in hiring one of our graduates for the 2012-2013 school year, please visit our 2012 Graduating Class page.
The STEM program is structured to attract students with a variety of qualifications.
- People with real world experiences who have decided to leave their current technical-based career and become a teacher.
- Recent college graduates with an undergraduate degree in science, technology, engineering or math.
Our graduates integrate real world examples into their curriculum, providing Delaware students with practical applications to their learning, helping spur them on to additional education or enter technical fields.
The STEM Residency Program is funded through the Race to the Top initiative and ensures cooperation with the Department of Education at both state and national levels, as well as local school districts and employers. As part of this program, students receive a tuition scholarship and a stipend.
By promoting collaborations between business leaders, educators and other stakeholders, this program will help raise student achievement, reinvigorate math and science education, promote innovative educational reform and provide Delaware a more skilled workforce.
Most importantly, the STEM Residency Program will develop highly qualified teachers prepared to inspire Delaware’s students.
Perhaps you are looking to become a teacher, but would prefer to focus on subject matter or student populations other than what STEM offers. If so, please see the hyperlinks on the right menu bar for alternative teacher education programs at UD.
On education,
all our lives depend,
and few to that,
too few, with care attend.
- Ben Franklin
