Teaching, Outreach & Mentoring
Stony Brook offers a wide array of opportunities for experience in educational outreach, teaching and mentoring. The programs listed below are an example of some of these opportunities. For assistance in connecting with these programs, contact the Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Dr. Kathleen Flint Ehm.
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Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (CELT)
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) offers training on classroom technolocy, pedagogy and other teaching and learning methods. CELT also offers consultation on both instructional design and assessment. You can see a full list of their upcoming events here.
SBU Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
WISE's honors curriculum for undergraduate women often seeks instructors for its courses, such as WSE 187 Introduction to Research.
Institute for STEM Education (I-STEM)
I-STEM is a hub for dozens of K-12 outreach programs with schools here on Long Island. I-STEM also has consulted with students, postdocs and faculty seeking help in designing outreach programs for grants, such as for NSF broader impacts projects.
Brookhaven National Lab's K-12 Educational Outreach Programs
BNL's Office of Educational Programs brings in K-12 school groups all throughout the year, and offers opportunities for students and postdocs to help support these initiatives.
Stony Brook IRACDA Postdoctoral Training Program
The Center for Inclusive Education's NIH-funded IRACDA program offers a unique research and teaching training program for postdoctoral scholars in the biological sciences. Applications are accepted annually.