Lessons Learned from In-Service Teacher Enhancement
in Computational Science
SIAM Annual Conference
Kansas City, Mo
July 23,1996
This URL is stewart.sdsu.edu/siam96/
Dr. Kris Stewart (stewart@sdsu.edu)
Associate Professor, Mathematical & Computer Sciences Department
San Diego State Univeristy
San Diego, CA 92182
and
Computational Science Curriculum Coordinator
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Abstract:
This poster presents STEP (Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement
Program), an in-service program for high school
science and math teachers, with significant underrepresented
student populations. STEP was funded by the NSF to provide
training on tools and techniques of Computational Science
at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. STEP began in 1993
(before NCSA Mosaic "hit the net") and the group has
advanced with the times. The participants have developed
extensive Web based materials applicable to the high school
class room.
Three years of work with teachers has taught this author much
that she would like to share. Intensive summer workshops,
follow-on Saturday meetings during the academic year and the
culminating presentations by the STEP participants at
SUPERCOMPUTING '95 were some of the components of the
program.
STEP has recently been included in the permanent collection of the
Smithsonain Institution on the use and impact of information
technology.
STEP
HPCCC = High Performance
Computation
Communication
Collaboration
STEP documents from anonymous ftp site
A Discussion
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