By Lisa Capobianco Staff Writer Innovative, creative and experiential are three words described by the Southington Education Foundation (SEF) when reflecting on the lessons that over a dozen teachers in the district created for Virtual STEM University (VSU). Last week, nine teachers unveiled their projects during a launch event held at South End School where other educators and Board of Education members attended. VSU is a web-based, educational resource for teachers that provide easy access to lesson design plans in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). “VSU is a resource for meaningful instruction and is an opportunity for Southington educators to share their unit activities and lesson plans,” said Jan Galati, the chairman of SEF. “Come this fall I feel confident that students in the classrooms will be so excited and so motivated to jump in and do all of these activities.” John Duffy, the district science coordinator, said all units created by teachers were required to incorporate most if not all of the four components of STEM. He said teachers took on that challenge in a variety of ways, and they created each unit to be standards-based and curriculum-based. Both Duffy and District Math Coordinator Dale [...]
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