{"id":76,"date":"2017-03-20T23:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T04:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mohl\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2025-04-14T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:26:12","slug":"science-education-at-st-olaf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mohl\/science-education-at-st-olaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Education at St. Olaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you imagine yourself teaching science to students, perhaps as a classroom teacher or as a TA in graduate school or even as a professor?<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Do you expect to be training people in your future science career?<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

Do you want to develop practices that foster culturally responsive and sustaining learning communities and empower students to be agents of change?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

Most people will find themselves teaching or educating in some capacity in their future careers. The education department at St. Olaf has resources to help you develop important skills, and we can license you to become a middle or high school science teacher.\u00a0 If you’d like to explore and develop teaching skills, check out this list<\/a> <\/strong>of courses, internships, student orgs, job opportunities to consider.\u00a0 Contact Prof. Emily Mohl (mohl@stolaf.edu; x3984, RNS432) to join the mailing list or ask questions, and read on to learn more.<\/p>\n

Don’t just take my word for it. \u00a0See what St. Olaf science majors\u00a0say about why they want to teach science and their experiences in the education program.<\/p>\n