Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education Program
(Archive)
Home Schools Community Resources Evaluation Publications Photo Gallery Forum




News Archive

  • A biology fieldwork experience organized by fellow Mike Kandianis, teacher Ron Feltes, and a county agricultural extension agent was featured in an article in the Danville Commercial-News last. The daylong project allowed students to accompany the extension agent, John Peverly, and collect and test water samples from various locations near Bismarck-Henning High School. Mike, Ron, students, and the school's technology coordinator plan to prepare a documentary for the school from video footage captured during the event. The fieldwork relates directly to coursework and lab simulations running at the school.

  • The GK-12 Team earned a "SITE 2004 Best Paper Award" for Science Education at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) AACE International Conference held in Atlanta, GA. (March 1-6).

    The paper, What Science and Technology Mean to the High School Learner, positioned the high school teacher as a research-practioner, and drew upon thick data reflecting students' perceptions of bioinformatics and technology in their science classrooms. (see: http://site.aace.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Page.SITE04BestPapers

    Authors are members of the NSF GK-12 Research Project administered under Dr. Richard Braatz and the NCSA: Kathleen Gabric, Hinsdale Central High School; Sharon Comstock, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Steven A. Moore Jr., Eli Lilly; Delwyn Harnisch , Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln,; Ron Shope, Grace Univ.; Bertram Bruce, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jim Buell, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    Team members gratefully acknowledge support of the NSF (No. 0086455).

  • Members of the GK-12 Fellows Program Evaluation Team presented at Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) hosted by Assoc. for the Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE) in Atlanta, GA March 1-6, 2004.

    Team members presented a full paper:
    Gabric, K., Comstock, S.L., Moore, S., Harnisch, D., Shope, R. Bruce, B. C. & Buell, J. What Science and Technology Mean to the High School Learner: Impact of the NSF GK-12; and two posters:
    Harnisch, D. Comstock, S.L., Bruce, B.C., & Buell, J. Development of Professional Learning Communities Factors within the NSF GK-12 Program; and
    Buell, J Harnisch, D. Bruce, B.C Comstock, S.L., ., & Braatz, R. New Tools Supporting New Partnerships: Technology Development within the NSF GK-12.
  • Katy Lustofin and Brent Palmer attended the SC03 supercomputing conference as student volunteers. As part of the program they received the conference registration, room and board and access to the educational technology program.
  • Congratulations to GK-12 participant Shelly Barker, one of two Danville High School teachers who earned certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The National Board's certification process uses portfolios, evaluations, student work, and tests of the subject matter they teach to evaluate candidates for its recognition. The certification is good for 10 years and can be renewed. Danville mathematics teacher Rachel Seibert was also awarded NBPTS certification.
    Submitted by Jim Buell of the Evaluation Team.
  • Chip Bruce has published an Article entitled:
    The Role, Value, and Limits of S&T Data and Information in the Public Domain for Education. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academies Public Domain Symposium. Available online.
  • "A Case for Story" by Sharon L. Comstock was accepted for publication and individual paper presentation at the Midwest Qualitative Research Conference, St. Thomas University, June 18-21, 2003 Minneapolis, MN.
  • GK-12 Researchers at SITE 2003 Conference
  • Seeing is Believing, Access Online (04.08.03)
  • Biology Workbench AG Seminar (Tues., Jan. 28, 1:00 PM at SRP E102A)
  • UI project is simply buggy, on purpose, The News-Gazette, January 26, 2003
  • Somewhere over the virtual rainbow, The News-Gazette, December 1, 2002
  • Scientists, Mentors, Teachers, featured in the Access Online Stories.
  • Bharat Mehra presented at The 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 14-18, 2002 in Orlando, Florida.
  • UI scientists head back to school, featured in the News-Gazette Online, Tuesday, July 9, 2002.
  • Sharon L. Comstock presented two papers at ED-MEDIA 2002 World Conference June 24-29, 2002 in Denver, Colorado.
  • NCSA to Lead NSF-Funded Effort to Integrate Science Tools Into Classrooms (Access Online)

Notices
-- This site is archived --
The grant that supported this program has come to an end. GK12 continues at UIUC under the auspices of LAS. You can find information about the continuation at http://gk12-uiuc.net/

Archive
News
GK12 would like to thank the NSF and NCSA for supporting this program. We also congratulate the teacher-fellow teams over the last three years for their participation in GK12.


Archive
Highlights

Teaching Materials
Sample units in biology, chemistry, history, math and computer science are on the resources page.

Publications and Presentations
by fellows and evaluators are on the publications page

Archive

  NSF Award  |  NSF GK-12  |  EOT-PACI  |  EdGrid