At a glance
- Regional training workshops offer a shorter training experience for STEM teachers than the fellowship.
- Participants practice using public health lesson plans and learn strategies to teach epidemiology and public health concepts.
- No regional training workshops are currently scheduled. Please continue to check this website for updates
Overview
STEM teachers and other educators engage in professional learning during these one- or two-day training workshops. Participants:
- Practice using public health STEM lesson plans.
- Learn strategies to bring epidemiology and public health concepts to their classrooms.
- Meet public health experts.
The training workshops include:
- Hands-on sessions that walk-through STEM lesson plans on public health topics, including those featured in the CDC NERD Academy curriculum.
- Interactive discussions on how public health content can be used to create inquiry-based, transdisciplinary lessons and activities.
- Panels with CDC experts, state and local public health professionals, and university faculty and students from local public health programs.
Public health topics covered during the workshops could include:
- Applied epidemiology (e.g., how to investigate an outbreak like a disease detective).
- Infectious disease (e.g., COVID-19, pandemic influenza, zoonotic disease).
- Population health (e.g., opioid overdose epidemic, the obesity epidemic).
- Public health careers
- And others
Eligibility
To be eligible to attend a workshop, you must be one of the following:
- A current middle school (6–8 grade) or high school (9–12 grade) teacher or educator
- An educational leader in a U.S. school, district, or state interested in bringing public health into a STEM classroom of program. Examples include a district curriculum coordinator, principal, department chair, STEM coordinator, state teachers' association representative, afterschool program director.
Regional training workshops are designed for those who teach STEM lessons to grade 6-12 students. The primary purpose of these workshops is to practice using public health lesson plans.
You do not need to be a U.S. citizen to participate in most regional training workshops.* Upon registration, your eligibility will be confirmed.
*U.S. citizenship is required for any regional training held at a federal CDC facility.