{"id":4598,"date":"2012-02-01T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2012-02-01T10:51:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:51:41","slug":"building-a-better-middle-school-stem-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/02\/01\/building-a-better-middle-school-stem-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Building A Better Middle School STEM Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4599\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Students in a University of South Florida classroom\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/USFStem.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4599\" title=\"USFStem\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/USFStem-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/USFStem-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/USFStem-220x123.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/USFStem.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">University of South Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in a University of South Florida classroom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s state universities have been doing a lot of thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/stem\/\">science, technology, engineering and mathematics<\/a> education recently, spurred by <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/anthropology\/\">Gov. Rick Scott<\/a> and the Legislature&#8217;s interest in turning out more graduates ready for high-tech jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Last week WUSF Mark Schreiner profiled a University of South Florida researcher trying to figure out what attracts students to STEM fields. This week Schreiner looks at a USF program trying to prepare better middle school STEM teachers for the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>State universities leaders will likely discuss the issue when they meet with lawmakers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/Sections\/Committees\/meetingnotice.aspx?MeetingId=8972\">Thursday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s state universities have been doing a lot of thinking about science, technology, engineering and mathematics education recently, spurred by Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature&#8217;s interest in turning out more graduates ready for high-tech jobs. Last week WUSF Mark Schreiner profiled a University of South Florida researcher trying to figure out what attracts students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":4599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1040,1113,1082,1067],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}