Advancing the Culture of Teaching in STEM

ACT-STEM is a five-year, NSF-funded initiative that seeks to improve the culture of teaching within STEM departments to better support the needs of an increasingly diverse student population. We are located at Middle Tennessee State University and are a collection of researchers with broad interests in STEM Education. 

The primary focus of this project is implementing a two-year professional development program for a broad category of instructional faculty within higher education (e.g. teaching faculty, research faculty, adjuncts, and graduate teaching assistants). We seek to foster a teaching culture that is collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented through three key theoretical frameworks: self-determination, positive psychology, and diffusion of innovation.

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