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Professional Organizations for STEM Teachers
The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) is a professional organization that provides resources and holds conferences for science teachers. There are also student chapters, including one at Western that holds monthly meetings. For more information about Western’s student chapter, contact debi.hanuscin@wwu.edu. You can also go to the NSTA site to browse its resources.
The Association for Multicultural Science Education (AMSE) is organized to stimulate and promote science teaching to students of culturally diverse backgrounds and to motivate such students to consider science-related careers; to explore and promote the improvement of science curriculum, educational systems and teaching methods in school to assist such stimulations; to recruit and involve teachers of all minorities in science education and to initiate and engage in activities and programs in furtherance of improving the science education of culturally diverse students.
The National Middle Level Science Teachers Association is a professional learning network for middle and junior high school science teachers who meet the unique developmental needs of students in grades 5–9.
WWU Clubs and Organizations
The WWU Student Chapter of the NSTA is the officially recognized collegiate chapter of the National Science Teaching Association at Western!
The Western Chem Club is a Student Chapter of the American Chemical Society.
Physicists for Inclusion in STEM (PhIS) is a student-led organization in Western's Physics and Astronomy department. Our primary focuses are public outreach, providing support to undergraduate Physics and Astronomy students, and promoting inclusion and equity work in the Physics and Astronomy Department and the College of Science and Engineering (CSE).
