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Annual Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program at Mississippi State University Underway

June 17, 2021

The Global Teaching Project provides promising high school students from rural, high-poverty communities access to advanced STEM courses they need to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise could not provide. Our students have been selected for our program because they have demonstrated a high aptitude and strong work ethic.  Yet those students, though quite smart, often have gaps in their substantive foundations.  Also, COVID greatly disrupted school schedules and instruction in the past year, leading to severe learning losses that put students even further behind. To strengthen our students’ substantive foundations and prepare them for the rigor …

Teacher Spotlight:<br/> Anna Creekmore

February 26, 2021

Teaching is at the heart of the Global Teaching Project’s mission. Teacher shortages across the country prevent students from accessing advanced coursework, which, in turn, impedes their ability to pursue, and complete, a college education.  To address that growing crisis, the Global Teaching Project provides promising high school students in rural communities access to advanced STEM courses needed to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise could not offer. Supervisory Instructors—experienced, in-state, AP-certified teachers—are critical to the Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Access Program.  Supervisory Instructors provide synchronous and asynchronous instruction, lead university-based residential instructional programs, create and administer …

Harvard Researcher Dr. Ryan Speaks with GTP Students

January 28, 2021

On January 21, 2021, the Global Teaching Project hosted a virtual event with  Dr. Edward Ryan, Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Global Infectious Diseases at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital.  Well over 100 participants joined the Zoom session, and GTP high school students from rural Mississippi, as always, asked excellent questions.  A recording of our program is here.  Demeria Moore, a student at McAdams High School in Attala County, introduced Dr. Ryan, who addressed the latest developments on COVID-19, including vaccinations, continuing health protocols, and the path to a return to normalcy.  In addition, Dr. Ryan emphasized the …

Teaching Assistants:<br/> “Oso” Ifesinachukwu

January 15, 2021

A key element of the Global Teaching Project’s blended learning model—which employs multiple means to engage students and facilitate learning—is the extensive tutoring provided by college STEM majors from leading universities around the country, such as Yale, the University of Virginia, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. Those tutors work with students at the Global Teaching Project’s residential programs, held for students several times a year at Mississippi universities (and virtually during the pandemic). The college tutors also provide instruction by video conference, often multiple times per week, to students throughout the year as part of our schools’ regularly scheduled classes. Yale …