Terrapin Teachers Awarded Campus Teaching Innovation Grant

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Experiential learning in schools and classrooms is a cornerstone of the Terrapin Teachers program, but classroom access is currently limited due to the pandemic. To address this, Terrapin Teachers Master Teacher Sarah Henson-Darko (Principal Investigator), together with our team of Master Teachers (co-Principal Investigators), received a Teaching Innovation Grant UMD grant this summer titled, “TLPL 101: Inquiry Approach to Teaching STEM and TLPL 102: Inquiry Teaching of STEM in Middle School”. This grant allows for the development of, a simulated classroom experience to be implemented in TLPL 101 as the main experiential learning opportunity. The simulated environment will offer undergraduates a safe place to rehearse and develop their teaching practice with avatars that look and talk like typical elementary school students. In TLPL 102, new tools will be implemented to create “storyboards” depicting classroom scenarios that allow undergraduates to consider key decision-making steps in their own teaching practice.

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