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$150 to Try Teaching


 Do you love Math or Science? Do you want to contribute to your community?  Have you ever considered teaching? Then sign up for TLPL101 (1 credit).
  • Here's a chance to try teaching and earn a $150 scholarship for completing the course with a "B" grade or higher. 
The course will focus on inquiry-based teaching.  You will strengthen your oral communication and organization skills.  The course requires that you observe a local elementary school teacher twice and then teach two science or math lessons.  Yes, that's correct.  You are required to be in the elementary school a total of four times during the semester.  We suggest that you allow a 3-hour window to include travel time, set-up, and wrap-up when teaching the lessons.  All of the schools are on the UM shuttle line.  A background check is required.  TLPL 101 meets for one-hour and twenty minutes once a week.

There is no obligation to continue the course sequence once you have taken TLPL 101.