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1 February 2006 Integrating Teaching and Research: A New Model for Graduate Education?
NANCY M. TRAUTMANN, MARIANNE E. KRASNY
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New models of graduate education are emerging in response to the need to prepare students for careers involving not only research but also teaching, outreach, service, and interdisciplinary work. One such model is provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Graduate Teaching Fellows in K–12 Education (GK–12) program, which challenges universities to build educational outreach into graduate education. Thirty-three percent of the GK–12 faculty advisors at Cornell University credited the fellowship with improving their advisees' research or perspectives on science, and 89 percent reported that it enhanced their advisees' teaching skills. Because Cornell fellows create and use curriculum materials related to their own specialized field of science, they gain experience integrating education with research. By implementing and evaluating student-centered teaching strategies, they also engage in the scholarship of teaching in ways that many fellows have said will carry over into their careers.

NANCY M. TRAUTMANN and MARIANNE E. KRASNY "Integrating Teaching and Research: A New Model for Graduate Education?," BioScience 56(2), 159-165, (1 February 2006). https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2006)056[0159:ITARAN]2.0.CO;2
Published: 1 February 2006
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education
graduate training
NSF GK–12
outreach
teaching
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