Welcome to the Stearns Center STEM Education Hub! We are dedicated to advancing STEM education by providing resources and professional development that supports faculty, staff, and students in engaging with inclusive and innovative pedagogical practices. Here you will find resources, programs, and opportunities to enhance your teaching and learning in STEM.
Schedule an appointment to meet with the STEM Education specialist
STEM Education Opportunities
Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning is proud to offer funding opportunities for STEM faculty. The goal of these opportunities is to allow STEM faculty to have additional resources to experiment in their pedagogy and to help better support the needs of STEM students at George Mason University. STEM faculty includes all faculty engaging students in topics of science, technology, engineering and/or math. STEM education opportunities are not limited to CEC and COS.
STEM Education Grants
Faculty Fellow in STEM Education
STEM Education Programming
Our STEM Education Programming at the Stearns Center is designed to empower faculty, graduate students, and staff across George Mason University to enhance their teaching practice, collaborate with peers, and engage in innovative approaches to STEM education. Through a variety of structured and flexible opportunities, we support effective teaching, learning, and assessment in STEM disciplines.
- The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program is a faculty development curriculum that scaffolds learning experiences for new and continuing faculty of all ranks and graduate instructors of record across all disciplines. Below you will find the STEM-specific offerings for CPD. Click here for more information on CPD offerings in other disciplines.
- Level 1. STEM Teaching Essentials
- These one-hour workshops are ideal for instructors who are new to college teaching and want to learn the foundations of effective teaching as well as experienced instructors who want to implement new strategies.
- Design Workshops
- AI in STEM Education-Coming Soon
- Engage Workshops
- Engaging Students in Large STEM Classes-Coming Soon
- Assess Workshops
- Alternative Assessments in STEM Courses-Coming Soon
- Design Workshops
- These one-hour workshops are ideal for instructors who are new to college teaching and want to learn the foundations of effective teaching as well as experienced instructors who want to implement new strategies.
- Level 1. STEM Teaching Essentials
Resources
- Teaching Tips from Newsletters (OneDrive link to come)
- Topics you may find in the Teaching Tips:
- Active Learning
- Equity in STEM
- Assessment
- AI
- and more!
- Topics you may find in the Teaching Tips:
- Faculty Teaching Highlights
- Submit a Teaching Highlight
- Faculty Teaching Highlights (OneDrive link to come)
- Keystone Concepts in Teaching Podcast
- A higher education podcast from the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning