Be a Winner!
Be a Winner!
A Science Teacher's Guide to Writing Successful Grant Proposals
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ISBN: 9789387925236
Bind: Paperback
Year: 2019
Pages: 168
Size: 8.5 x 11 Inch
Publisher: National Science Teachers Association
Published in India by: Viva Books
Exclusive Distributors: Viva Books
Sales Territory: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
In today's cash-strapped schools, more education find it necessary to master the art of proposal writing to fund innovative initiatives inside and outside the classroom. This grant-writing guide specializes in advice and resources gathered by science educators for science educators.
Be a Winner! is a handy workbook that walks you step by step through the secrets of the grant-proposal writing process. You?ll Learn
- the top 10 reasons to write a grant proposal
- how to identify and refine ideas for a proposal
- basic components of every proposal
- the ins and outs of submitting a proposal, and
- how to manage a funded project
One chapter even addresses how to use your grant-writing skills to pursue professional development opportunities, apply for awards, and help your students participate in competitions and pursue internships.
Eight appendixes provide you with writing templates, a grant proposal rubic, science-related grant listings and teaching awards, and more. By the time you complete the book's practice exercises, you?ll have just compiled a complete proposal-and you?ll be well on your way to winning the grant-writing game.
Target Audience:
This book is written for practicing science teachers, administrators and instructors of teachers, and future teachers themselves for acquiring successful grant proposals.
Contents:
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. The Top 10 Reasons to Write a Grant Proposal
CHAPTER 2. Identifying and Refining Ideas for Potential Grant Proposals
CHAPTER 3. Getting Started: May the FORCE Be With You!
CHAPTER 4. Grant Proposal Components
CHAPTER 5. Supplemental Grant Components
CHAPTER 6. NGSS: A Valuable Tool for Designing Winning Grant Proposals
CHAPTER 7. Submitting Your Grant: Keep Those Fingers Crossed!
CHAPTER 8. Managing Your Funded Project
CHAPTER 9. You?ve Only Just Begun!
CHAPTER 10. Some Final Words of Advice
APPENDIX 1: Dream Big! Grant Proposal Writing Templates
APPENDIX 2: Grant Proposal Rubric
APPENDIX 3: Using the NGSS as a Blueprint
APPENDIX 4: Grant Listings and Proposal Resources
APPENDIX 5: FAQs About the Grant Proposal Writing Process
APPENDIX 6: Grant Resources at State Departments of Education
APPENDIX 7: National Science Teachers Association Position Statements
APPENDIX: Teaching Awards
INDEX
About the Authors:
Patty McGinnis is a National Board Certified Teacher with more than 25 years of teaching experience at the grade 7?12 level. She has received numerous grants and awards that have engaged her students in innovative science investigations. Patty teaches at Arcola Intermediate School in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, and has an EdD in educational technology from Boise State University. Her interests include the use of technology in supporting science practices. Patty is a frequent presenter at science conferences and served as National Science Teachers Association's division director for middle-level science teaching from 2012 to 2015. She is thankful for the support of her husband, Bob, and of her three incredible children, Kathleen, Matthew, and Marybeth.
Kitchka Petrova is a National Board Certified Teacher in early adolescence science. She holds a PhD in microbiology from Moscow University
M. V. Lomonossov, Russia, and worked as a research scientist in Bulgaria prior to immigrating to the United States. She was a middle school science teacher in private and public schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida, for 12 years. During that time, she received funding from local, state, and national organizations to support project based inquiry learning for her students. During the 2008?2009 school year, she served as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia. Kitchka is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in education policy and evaluation at Florida State University, with a focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education policies and initiatives.
