The Science
Teacher Education Program

The Science Education Program at Stony Brook offers a palette of coursework, clinical practice, seminars and special projects that prepares students with undergraduate majors in biology, chemistry, earth science and/or physics to earn a Master of Arts in Teaching and to assume teaching positions in grades 7-12. The program is committed to both science teaching and science learning as investigatory endeavors that demand conceptualization and theory building within research traditions. Therefore, successful completion of this program requires the student to demonstrate understandings of his/her content specialty, general science principles, human development and pedagogical principles; research techniques appropriate to questions posed; and instructional strategies rooted in theory.

The program offers: a wide array of supervised, clinical practice opportunities; a "Nature of Science and the Human Endeavor" Seminar series featuring distinguished faculty as facilitators; a lending library of current theoretical, instructional design and policy literature; a secure, web-based communication system for student and faculty discussion and reflection; personalized assessment system consisting of private and small group meetings with participating faculty; an individual student teaching placement program; and an informal career placement network. The program requires a minimum of three semesters, with evening coursework and daytime clinical practice beginning in the first semester.

The Science Education Program at Stony Brook has been featured in international journals and at international conferences. Educational research emanating from the program has become the theoretical foundation of numerous schools.

For information about the Undergraduate programs in Science Education, please visit the following page:

• http://www.stonybrook.edu/ugrdbulletin/current/pdfs/eduM.pdf
  

For information about MAT programs in Science Education, please visit the following web page:

• http://www.stonybrook.edu/spd/graduate/matscience.html

For information about each of the science departments, click on the links below:

• Biology: Undergraduate and Graduate
               Biology Teacher Education Program Advising Packet
• Chemistry: Undergraduate and Graduate
               Chemistry Teacher Education Program Advising Packet
• Earth Sciences: Department of Geosciences |
               Earth Science Teacher Education Program Advising Packet
• Physics: Undergraduate and Graduate
               Physics Teacher Education Program Advising Packet

For information about the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Scholarships for prospective math and science students, please visit the LIGASE website at: http://www.stonybrook.edu/ligase/Prospectiveteachers/prosteachers.html. These scholarships provide $10,000 for the last year of teacher training for students who commit to teaching in a high needs school for two years.

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