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Cal State LA awarded grant for simulation lab to prepare teachers

Cal State LA has been awarded a $586,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to train future teachers in math and science instruction using a simulation lab.

The three-year grant will be used to establish the Simulations for Minority Interactive Learning Environments: A Design and Development Project at Cal State LA. The simulation lab will help prepare elementary teachers working in schools in high-poverty urban areas to teach math and science.

“Just as pilots spend long hours using virtual simulators before flying a plane carrying real passengers, it is now possible to provide students studying to be teachers opportunities to virtually practice teaching strategies to enhance learning before serving students in real classrooms,” said Costello Brown, a consultant on the project and an emeritus chemistry professor at Cal State LA.