The MIT Empowering the Teachers Program (MIT-ETT) is a teaching- focused fellowship, offered by MIT – AFRICA together with its corporate partner NNPC/TOTAL MIT-ETT enables Nigerian faculty in science and engineering to experience a semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Selected fe!lows will observe instruction in their disciplines and work as a group under the guidance of MIT faculty member to prepare innovative curricula and approaches to teaching that can be introduced into their home universities on their return. They will also receive some support towards career advancement.

The Empowering the Teachers (ETT) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) strives to foster innovation in science and engineering education in tertiary academic institutions in Africa through an intense engagement with faculty members from African universities.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the 2017/2018 MIT-Empowering the Teacher (MIT-ETT)

The overarching goal of MIT Empowering the Teachers Program is to facilitate the development of young African faculty leadership in science and engineering education who will introduce innovation and creativity into science and engineering curricular.
There are two main objectives of the MIT Empowering the Teachers Program to provide young African professors with exposure to cutting-edge pedagogical methods in the highest-rated engineering and science departments in the U.S. and to provide American faculty who have a deep interest in connecting with those in their disciplines in emerging economies a concrete means of engagement.

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