VCU Bioinformatics & Bioengineering
Summer Institute Application (Teachers)
Please read all the way through before filling in the boxes. This is because you'll probably want to have the last questions answered first before starting with the boxes. Saving the form doesn't save what you filled in.
Sad to say, we are not in operation for Summer 2011
So this application form is non-functional
Basic Information
your name
(your quest )
(your favorite color )
what occupies your time these days
school next fall
mailing address
e-mail phone
The VCU BBSI program for teachers extends through the summer. We would also like to interact with alumni over the following academic year (and perhaps beyond!). We ask that participants have no other significant obligations during the summer period (e.g. classes, teaching) except for the expected conflict at the beginning with the end of the academic year.
Are you prepared to participate in the full duration of the program? YesNo
How did you hear of the Institute?
Background
What have you taught?
What would you LIKE to teach?

We'd like to know your background, though it's not very important for the application process. Feel free to add pertinent experiences that were not part of courses.


Biology
   Courses taken (check all that apply, put others you think pertinent in box):

Organismal biology 
Genetics 
Cell biology 
Molecular biology 
Ecology of some sort 

Physical Science/Engineering
   Courses taken (check all that apply, put others you think pertinent in box):
General chemistry
Organic chemistry
Quantitative chemistry
General physics 

Mathematics
   Courses taken (check all that apply, put others you think pertinent in box):
Calculus
Differential equations
Linear algebra
Statistics and probability

Computers
   Courses taken and your experience using computers. Include any experience
   you may have had with programming and the languages you used.
References

Please arrange for two people to write on your behalf. One should be from a person who can speak regarding your teaching, your strengths, weaknesses, and peculiarities. The other should from an administrator at the school where you will be teaching in the fall, who can voice support for what you are trying to do, especially the possible implentation of modules that might emerge from your participation in the program.  

The letters can be sent directly by e-mail to:


Person who has agreed to write a letter on your behalf:
name
affiliation
relationship
to you


Administrator who has agreed to write a letter on your behalf:
name
affiliation
relationship
to you
You in your own words

Address the questions that follow and submit below a file containing your answers (which may be separated or jumbled together into a single narrative). The file can be PDF, HTML, or any common word processor format.
1. Describe what motivates you to apply to this program.
    What do you hope to gain from it?


2. What satisfies most about your current teaching experiences?
    With what area you not satisfied?


3. Describe an ideal course.
    Do you see your BBSI experience helping you attain it?    


4. In the event that there is something you feel is important that could not fit into any
    of the provided opportunities for expression, well, here's your chance.
 
Upload the file with your answers:

Thanks!