EMPOWERING THE TEACHERS, MISTI AFRICA, TUESDAY 17, JULY 2012

<P><a class="highslide" href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/CartyStudios%20Corporation/Auto%20Blogging%20Software%20-%20WebMagnates.org/data/Jobs%20in%20Nigeria,%20Nairaland/bestforum/Mit.png" onclick="return vz.expand(this)"></A><STRONG>2012 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS</STRONG><BR>Empowering the Teachers enables outstanding young Nigerian faculty in science and engineering to collaborate with faculty at MIT in developing new curriculum and teaching methods.</P><br /><P>The program is offered by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) together with its corporate partner Total. The director of the program is Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.</P><br /><P><STRONG>DESCRIPTION</STRONG><BR>Empowering the Teachers will select up to twelve outstanding young faculty fellows from the disciplines of electrical engineering, computer science and computer engineering in Nigerian universities to spend a semester at MIT in 2013.  Selected fellows will observe instruction in their disciplines and work as a group to prepare innovative curricula and approaches to teaching that can be introduced to their home universities on their return.</P><br /><P>Empowering the Teachers will cover the travel, living and instructional materials expenses of the participants.  The home universities of the successful applicants will commit to provide paid <a href="http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/" target="_blank">www.nigerianbestforum.com</A> leaves of absence during the period of the MIT program.</P><br /><P>The young faculty selected to participate in the Empowering the Teachers program will spend either the spring 2013 (February-May) or fall 2013 (September-December) semester at MIT    observing classes similar to ones they themselves currently teach.  They will work on new curricular materials and teaching approaches for adoption in their own classes.  During their stays, they will participate regularly in at least two MIT subjects (including recitations and tutorials) that correspond to courses the faculty members teach at their home universities.</P><br /><P>They will attend weekly Empowering the Teachers Fellows Seminar meetings on curriculum development and meet with professors and teaching assistants. Beyond the fellowship semester at MIT, Empowering the Teachers will support online communications, periodic reunions and meetings in Nigeria in order to build over time a community of faculty devoted to excellence and innovation in science and engineering education.</P><br /><P><STRONG>ELIGIBILITY</STRONG><BR>Empowering the Teachers welcomes applications from all qualified faculty. To be eligible for consideration for selection, a faculty member must hold a PhD and teach in a department corresponding to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at a university in Nigeria.  Only candidates at the level of Lecturer One rank will be considered.</P><br /><P><STRONG>APPLICATION AND SELECTION</STRONG><BR>Please download the application form and submit it to <a href="mailto:misti-africa@mit.edu">misti-africa@mit.edu</A> by Monday, August 6. An MIT committee will establish a list of top candidates. These candidates will be interviewed in Nigeria by MIT faculty in late August/early September.</P><br /><P>Empowering the Teachers 2012 deadline: Monday, August 6, 2012.</P><br /><P>DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM (<a href="http://mit.edu/misti/africa/MISTI%20Africa%20ETT%20Application%202012.doc" target="_blank">http://mit.edu/misti/africa/MISTI%20Africa%20ETT%20Application%202012.doc</A>)</P><br /><P>Contact us to learn more about participating in MISTI Africa Empowering the Teachers.</P><br /><P><a href="http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/job/?p=29841" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View the original article here</A></P>

EMPOWERING THE TEACHERS, MISTI AFRICA, TUESDAY 17, JULY 2012

2012 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Empowering the Teachers enables outstanding young Nigerian faculty in science and engineering to collaborate with...

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EMPOWERING THE TEACHERS, MISTI AFRICA, TUESDAY 17, JULY 2012

<P><a class="highslide" href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/CartyStudios%20Corporation/Auto%20Blogging%20Software%20-%20WebMagnates.org/data/Jobs%20in%20Nigeria,%20Nairaland/bestforum/Mit.png" onclick="return vz.expand(this)"></A><STRONG>2012 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS</STRONG><BR>Empowering the Teachers enables outstanding young Nigerian faculty in science and engineering to collaborate with faculty at MIT in developing new curriculum and teaching methods.</P><br /><P>The program is offered by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) together with its corporate partner Total. The director of the program is Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.</P><br /><P><STRONG>DESCRIPTION</STRONG><BR>Empowering the Teachers will select up to twelve outstanding young faculty fellows from the disciplines of electrical engineering, computer science and computer engineering in Nigerian universities to spend a semester at MIT in 2013.  Selected fellows will observe instruction in their disciplines and work as a group to prepare innovative curricula and approaches to teaching that can be introduced to their home universities on their return.</P><br /><P>Empowering the Teachers will cover the travel, living and instructional materials expenses of the participants.  The home universities of the successful applicants will commit to provide paid <a href="http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/" target="_blank">www.nigerianbestforum.com</A> leaves of absence during the period of the MIT program.</P><br /><P>The young faculty selected to participate in the Empowering the Teachers program will spend either the spring 2013 (February-May) or fall 2013 (September-December) semester at MIT    observing classes similar to ones they themselves currently teach.  They will work on new curricular materials and teaching approaches for adoption in their own classes.  During their stays, they will participate regularly in at least two MIT subjects (including recitations and tutorials) that correspond to courses the faculty members teach at their home universities.</P><br /><P>They will attend weekly Empowering the Teachers Fellows Seminar meetings on curriculum development and meet with professors and teaching assistants. Beyond the fellowship semester at MIT, Empowering the Teachers will support online communications, periodic reunions and meetings in Nigeria in order to build over time a community of faculty devoted to excellence and innovation in science and engineering education.</P><br /><P><STRONG>ELIGIBILITY</STRONG><BR>Empowering the Teachers welcomes applications from all qualified faculty. To be eligible for consideration for selection, a faculty member must hold a PhD and teach in a department corresponding to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at a university in Nigeria.  Only candidates at the level of Lecturer One rank will be considered.</P><br /><P><STRONG>APPLICATION AND SELECTION</STRONG><BR>Please download the application form and submit it to <a href="mailto:misti-africa@mit.edu">misti-africa@mit.edu</A> by Monday, August 6. An MIT committee will establish a list of top candidates. These candidates will be interviewed in Nigeria by MIT faculty in late August/early September.</P><br /><P>Empowering the Teachers 2012 deadline: Monday, August 6, 2012.</P><br /><P>DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM (<a href="http://mit.edu/misti/africa/MISTI%20Africa%20ETT%20Application%202012.doc" target="_blank">http://mit.edu/misti/africa/MISTI%20Africa%20ETT%20Application%202012.doc</A>)</P><br /><P>Contact us to learn more about participating in MISTI Africa Empowering the Teachers.</P><br /><P><a href="http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/job/?p=29841" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View the original article here</A></P>

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Team Leader – Upcoming DFID funded Voices for Change: Empowering Girls and Women (V4C) Programme – Nigeria

<P>• Challenging opportunity • Innovative gender-focused programme promoting the voice of adolescent girls and women • Opportunity to work with a program that will operate at federal, state and community level</P><P>The Voices for Change Programme will aim to create a ‘strengthened enabling environment which helps to shift attitudes and behaviours to improve the lives and life changes of adolescent girls and women (AGW) in Nigeria now and in future generations’.</P><P>The Team Leader will be based in Abuja, but need to travel throughout Nigeria. You will ideally demonstrate experience in: • Design, delivery and managing large donor funded governance/empowerment projects in Nigeria • One or more of the following: gender research, attitudinal changes, legal provisions for women and adolescent girls, communications • Understanding of gender dimensions in Northern Nigeria, with a close awareness of the status of women in Nigerian society • Gender-focussed project in West Africa • Best practice in gender and empowerment</P><P>About GRM International… GRM is a leading international professional services firm specializing in the provision of project design, management expertise and technical assistance to development projects for bilateral and multilateral funding agencies, governments and corporations. We assist developing regions globally to achieve sustainable economic growth……. and create a better future!</P><P>To keep up to date with the latest jobs and news in the development sector and GRM, follow us on facebook | linkedin | twitter.</P>

Team Leader – Upcoming DFID funded Voices for Change: Empowering Girls and Women (V4C) Programme – Nigeria

• Challenging opportunity • Innovative gender-focused programme promoting the voice of adolescent girls and women • Opportunity to work wit...

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