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Professor Uses 'Circus' to Study Teacher Retention

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. Youth College and Career Readiness
  2. Dialogic Pedagogy
  3. Internship Education
  4. Youth Empowerment
  5. science discourse
  6. Education for the 21st Century Demographic

Featured Researcher(s):

Hsu, Pei-Ling
College: Education
Department: Teacher Education

UTEP Strategic Areas

  1. Education for the 21st Century Demographic
Professor Uses 'Circus' to Study Teacher Retention
Date: 25 September 2012 21:36



Joining the “circus” could help stem the tide of science teachers who decide to leave the profession within five years of their first teaching job, according to a UTEP researcher from the University’s College of Education.

Pei-Ling Hsu, Ph.D., assistant professor of teacher education, began in 2012 to document ways to enhance the confidence, abilities and professional identities of science teachers through her “Science Circus” program that involves the development of lesson plans and teaching in informal settings.


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