Columbia University's Engineering School
Research Experience for Teachers Program
FASTER    

2013 Program Participants
Program Alumni
Advisory Committee
Lesson Plans
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant award #1201060

The primary aim of Forming, Advancing and Sustaining Teacher-Engineer Relationships (FASTER) is to provide New York metropolitan area K-12 science teachers with sustained hands-on experience in engineering research so they can better understand the practice of engineering, better transmit to their students and fellow teachers a feeling for its practice.  The program serves four major purposes:

  • ENGINEERING CONTENT

    Teachers participate in an informal seminar on a topic of broad general interest led by Columbia faculty or a speaker from another of New York’s science-rich institutions

  • SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

    Teachers describe their research to one another at regularly scheduled oral presentations or poster sessions

  • SCIENCE TEACHING

    Teachers discuss common problems and exchange ideas on what works in the classroom

  • PEER COACHING

    Second-year participants provide guidance to their first-year colleagues.

FASTER was founded in 2012 by Raimondo Betti, Chairman of Civil Engineering in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Program is administered on a daily basis by Jay Dubner, Program Coordinator.

 
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