MIT-Empowering the Teachers (MIT-ETT) Program Application Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

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Fall 2019-Spring - 2020 Call for Applications

Deadline: Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 8pm EST

Http://misti.mit.edu/empowering-teachers 

MIT-Empowering the teachers(MIT-ETT) is a teaching-focused fellowship, offered by MISTI at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) together with its corporate partner NNPC/TOTAL.

MIT-ETT enables Nigerian faculty in science and engineering to experience a semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). Selected fellows will observe instruction in their  disciplines and work as a group under the guidance of MIT faculty member to prepare innovative curricula and approaches to teaching that can be introduced into their home universities on their return.

DESCRIPTION:

MIT-ETT will select a number of outstanding young faculty fellows from the disciplines of electrical engineering, computer engineering , mechanical  engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering from Nigerian universities to spend a semester at MIT either in the fall 2019(September-December 2019) or in the spring 2020 (February- May 2020).

During their semester at MIT, the selected faculty will observe at least two classes similar to ones they themselves currently teach (including lectures, recitations and tutorials). They will work on new curricular materials and teaching approaches for adoption in their own classes, they will attend two weekly MIT-ETT seminars, one which will focus on curriculum design and the other will introduce the faculty to MIT cultural aspects such as: online teaching, problem solving, entrepreneurship, public speaking, networking and more.

MIT-ETT will cover basic travel, living and instructional materials expenses of the participants. The home universities of the successful applicants will commit to provide paid leaves of absence during the period of the MIT-ETT program.

ELIGIBILITY:

MIT-ETT welcomes applications from all qualified faculty who are:

1) Interested in developing new curriculum and teaching methods and consider themselves to be change-agents;

2) A faculty member holding a PhD and teach in a department corresponding to Computer Science , Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical or Petroleum Engineering at a university in Nigeria;

3) Lecturer One rank

Applications will be thoroughly vetted

Application and Selection:

To apply, please visit:

http://misti.mit.edu/empowering-teachers.

Deadline for applications is Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 8pm EST

An MIT committee will establish a list of top candidates. 

Vandidates In Nigeria will be interviewes in Abuja by MIT faculty and representatives of NNPC and TOTAL during the last week of January 2019. Selected candidates will be notified of their date and time in early January 2019

For questions and clarifications, please send email to: yoavd@mit.edu  

Source:  MIT-Empowering October 2018