Lee Meadows, Ph.D., will serve as co-chair for the Alabama State Department of Education Strategic Planning Committee on Science.

The program, designed to quickly produce a new teaching force of highly qualified STEM instructors, is growing at a rapid rate.

The innovative UABTeach program educates Alabama’s future teachers.

As a classroom of fourth-graders looks on, Dessie Chandler and Daniel Mendoza prepare a physics lesson. The UAB freshmen hold up two beakers of clear liquid and place a wax votive into each vessel. In one the candle sinks; in the other it floats. “Why does each candle behave differently?” they ask the Rocky Ridge Elementary School students.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham UABTeach program is wrapping up a highly successful first year, surpassing enrollment expectations and garnering philanthropic funding.

Special guests from the Birmingham Education Foundation delivered a powerful message of a bright future for UABTeach pre-service teachers and the work they can do with the students of Birmingham City Schools.

Amy Morgan, Ph.D., has been named the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s first master teacher for UABTeach, a program designed to nurture and train a new teaching force of highly qualified instructors in STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering, and math.

UAB was one of only five research universities chosen by the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) as expansion sites for their UTeach secondary science, technology, engineering, and math teacher preparation programs.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is one of five research universities awarded a grant to implement a program that will increase the number of highly trained secondary science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, teachers in the classroom.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is one of five research universities awarded a grant to implement a program that will increase the number of highly trained secondary science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, teachers in the classroom.