School of Education

Teachers have the unique opportunity of working with students from diverse cultural backgrounds; however, cultural barriers can often pose a threat to effective learning in the classroom.

The School of Education’s Global Teaching program provides students the opportunity of working in diverse classroom settings enabling them to learn how to more effectively teach across cultures. Our global teaching destinations are strategically selected to involve locations, languages, and cultures connected to the state educational programs – including dual language immersion.

2019 Locations include Peru and Switzerland.

The purpose of the STEM Creative Learning Studio is to support pre-service and in-service teachers’ facilitation of STEM integrative practices in K-12 classrooms in an effort to promote equity and opportunity for every student in the state of Utah.

These integrative practices include interdisciplinary approaches to:

• Increase K-12 students’ self-efficacies in and attitudes toward STEM subjects, technology, robotics, and coding.
• Increase K-12 students’ exposure to technology, robotics, and coding.
• Increase pre- and in-service teachers’ self-efficacy in and attitudes toward integrative. practices, particularly with regard to the use of technology, robotics, and coding across the curriculum.