Teacher Research Academy

"Providing Teachers With a Real World Context to Teach Science"

The Teacher Research Academy offers middle school and high school faculty unique professional development experiences at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

Teacher Research Academy teachers participate in a continuum of standards-based instruction, taking them from novice to mastery in exciting scientific disciplines.

Teachers who complete the TRA:
-- Increase their understanding of science and technology.
-- Become experienced using scientific equipment to perform standards aligned experiments.
-- Are better able to provide students a context to understand how science is applied.
-- Are better able to guide student research projects.

More information at: http://education.llnl.gov/academies/

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The nurturing of students by competent educators is a top priority.

"Ego" needs to be removed when nurturing is the primary objective.

One of the greatest losses to our nation & the world, is to have talented & gifted students, genuine child prodigies, slip through the cracks if only due to incompetence, ego & a failure to recognize talent.-

Promote TAG- talented & gifted programs nationwide. As well as funding for additional & ongoing training for teachers at every level