[Physics opps] FW: Teach for Spring HSSP!

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From: Catherine A Modica
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 9:07 AM
To: Nancy E Savioli; Crystal Nurazura Hall
Subject: FW: Teach for Spring HSSP!

Please forward, thanks.

From: Gurtej Kanwar [mailto:gurtej at MIT.EDU]<mailto:[mailto:gurtej at MIT.EDU]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:20 PM
To: Catherine A Modica
Cc: spring-hssp-director at mit.edu<mailto:spring-hssp-director at mit.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Teach for Spring HSSP!

Hello Ms. Modica,

I'm one of the directors of Spring HSSP, a program for middle and high school students that has 8-week long classes (academic and not) taught by college students. We're looking for more teachers to teach our classes. Specifically, we'd love to have students in Course 8 teach cool physics classes! Would you mind forwarding this to students in your department?

Thanks!
Ben Kraft, Bianca Homberg, and Gurtej Kanwar
Spring HSSP Directors

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From: Spring HSSP 2012 Directors <spring-hssp at mit.edu<mailto:spring-hssp at mit.edu>>
Date: Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:34 PM
Subject: Teach for Spring HSSP!
To:

Teach for Spring HSSP 2012! Spring HSSP is a long-term program in the spring during which middle and high school students can come take up to three classes on a variety of subjects. As a teacher, you get to design and teach an 8-class course on absolutely anything (academic or not). Previous classes have been anything from "Vision and Computational Photography" to "How to Question Everything and Argue with Everybody".

Spring HSSP runs each Saturday from Feb 18 to Apr 14 (skipping Mar 10). Each class session will be 1-2 hours. The deadline for applying is Jan 11. You can apply and find more information online at <http://esp.mit.edu/teach/HSSP>, or email us at spring-hssp at mit.edu<mailto:spring-hssp at mit.edu>.

If you're looking for a shorter time commitment, you can also teach a one-day class for ESPrinkler or Lecture Series. ESPrinkler is like a mini-Splash: a selection of one-time short classes that the students can choose from. Instead of enrolling a normal eight-week class for one of their time-blocks, students can instead choose ESPrinkler, and pick something different every week.  In addition, HSSP will be offering lecture series, which are series of classes on a particular general theme, taught by different teachers each week.  The topics of this year's Lecture Series have not been decided, but information on both programs is online at <http://esp.mit.edu/teach/HSSP/esprinkler.html>, or you can email us at spring-hssp at mit.edu<mailto:spring-hssp at mit.edu> if you're interested.

Don't know what to teach? Want to improve specific teaching skills? You can get help brainstorming class ideas and improving your teaching with our new Teacher Lab. There will be three different weekend sessions, each on a different aspect of teaching. You can attend any of the three pairs of sessions independently (although you should attend both sessions in the pair). You can find more information about Teacher Lab at <http://esp.mit.edu/teach/HSSP/TeacherLab.html>.

Spring HSSP is run by the MIT Educational Studies Program, which organizes many educational opportunities throughout the year such as Splash and Spark.

Best,
Ben Kraft, Bianca Homberg, and Gurtej Kanwar
Spring HSSP 2012 Directors
spring-hssp at mit.edu<mailto:spring-hssp at mit.edu>
(bcc'ed to dorm lists)

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