TELS Graduate Programs
The TELS partner institutions supervise and support graduate students who will become the teachers, researchers, instructional designers and educational policy makers of tomorrow. The TELS research program enables doctoral students and master's degree candidates to explore whether interactive software and simulations of scientific phenomena embedded in high quality instructional units can be used effectively to improve pre-college science education. TELS’ collaborative structure and extensive resources enable students to tackle much more complex research questions than they could undertake on their own.
 
TELS graduate students learn how to:
Read and evaluate research on learning technologies
 
 Investigate science learning technologies in complex contexts, determine successes and failures and synthesize findings in terms of design patterns and principles
  Design new approaches to professional development; prepare teachers and administrators to use educational technology effectively and to be informed critics of technological innovations aimed at enhancing education
  Create and test curricula that take advantage of information technology; customize materials for specific learning contexts such as rural schools, English Language Learners or interdisciplinary science courses
  Design and test outcome measures and assessments that capture how students integrate and use their new scientific knowledge
  Develop their own philosophy of teaching and learning in science informed by research in the field, concerns of practitioners in the schools, and policy needs