What is the Einstein's Protégés Program?

As you have most likely experienced, many students are not equipped with the skills necessary to succeed in college. They often lack the fundamental critical competencies (learning and information literacy skills) that enable them to learn and apply concepts in your courses. In spite of a widening spectrum of tutoring, mentoring, and skill development programs, too few students seek help even when they begin to realize that the skills and attitudes they left high school with are not enabling them to meet your expectations. Even if they do seek help outside your class, many of these programs develop skills in a vacuum, inhibiting the students' abilities to directly apply them to your courses.

The Teaching Teams Program (TTP), in collaboration with the University Learning Center, University Libraries, University Teaching Center, and Office of Instructional Assessment, has developed a new preceptorship to combat this problem. Called Einstein's Protégés (EP), TTP seeks to solve the problem of under-prepared students and underutilized skill development programs by imbedding specially trained preceptors into courses. These preceptors would be equipped with the necessary skills to help students in your class develop the critical competencies necessary for success. By integrating skill development in your course, you are creating a supportive environment where students can develop and immediately apply these competencies.

This project is sponsored in part by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education.

Einstein's Protégés was recently highlighted by the Arizona Daily Star and UA News Services. 

The University of Arizona Teaching Teams Program
Department of Planetary Sciences/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Kuiper Space Sciences 351 | 1629 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721-0092 | 520-621-3991 | ttp@u.arizona.edu | © 2004 Arizona Board of Regents



Last updated August 22, 2007