Academy Benefits

As an NSTA Fellow, you will receive:

• Comprehensive NSTA membership and its benefits;
• An opportunity to participate in a variety of web-based professional development activities, including web seminars
• Unlimited use of resources including vetted web links for lesson plans, links to state and national standards, professional organizations, safety tips and more;
• An opportunity to participate in e-Mentoring developed by NSTA, the New Teacher Center, and Montana State University that includes:
  • e-Mentoring with an experienced teacher in the same science discipline and grade level;
  • Facilitated online curriculum that focuses on science content and applicable classroom pedagogy;
  • Access to a nationwide, online network of science educators and scientists that facilitate the exchange of information, ideas, and resources;
• Accommodations, coverage of airfare, food, and registration fees to attend the NSTA national conference;
• An opportunity to participate in specialized conference pathways and to participate in a Research Dissemination Conference or a Professional Development Institute.

Eligibility

New Science Teacher Academy Fellows must be:

• Located throughout the country*
• Entering their second or third year of teaching
• Working a schedule with 51% of their classes in middle or high school science.

Former Academy Fellows are not eligible.

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*Applicants must be residents of one of the 50 states or four U.S. jurisdictions. The jurisdictions are Washington, DC; Puerto Rico; Department of Defense Schools; and the U.S. territories as a group (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands).

Selected applicants will represent a geographic distribution of the U.S. states and four U.S. jurisdictions.

For more information, please contact the Project Director of NSTA New Science Teacher Academy at jsciulli@nsta.org or (703)312-9218.