Project Based Instruction in STEM Education

This is a blog centering on Dr. Petrosino's course at The University of Texas at Austin entitled " EDC 365E Project Based Instruction in STEM Education." This is the capstone course in the UTeach Natural Sciences professional development sequence. It also serves as a forum for Dr. Petrosino's thoughts and ideas on Project Based Instruction and educational reform.

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Frameworks for Integrated Project-Based Instruction in STEM Disciplines (2024)

Frameworks for Integrated Project-Based Instruction in STEM Disciplines presents an original approach to Science, Technology, Engineering, a...

Thursday, February 15, 2024

The Fires: Hoboken 1978–1982 in Partnership with the Hoboken Historical Museum, Diaspora Solidarities Lab, and New Jersey Council for the Humanities from February 1–April 15, 2024

CENTRO, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College , has announced the opening of the exhibition, The Fires: Hoboken 1978–1982 in...

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Petrosino Invited by the National Academies of Science to Serve as a Member of the Board on Science Education committee on PreK-12 STEM Education Innovations

Associate Dean at the Simmons School of Education and Human Development invited to serve on Board on Science Education committee for PreK-...

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Sherard and Petrosino (2021): Language, modeling, and power: A methodology for analyzing discourse in interaction

The 2021 Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) is the first of its kind, the first of a new serie...

Friday, June 19, 2020

Petrosino, A. J., Sherard, M. K., Tharayil, S. A. (2020). The education philosophy, theories, and models that enable STEM policy integration

Petrosino, A. J., Sherard, M. K., Tharayil, S. A. (2020). The education philosophy, theories, and models that enable STEM policy integra...

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Harron, Petrosino and Jenevein (2019) Using Virtual Reality to Augment Museum-Based Field Trips in a Preservice Elementary Science Methods Course

The following paper represents about 2 years of work with pre-service elementary science teachers and the use of virtual reality in developi...

Saturday, November 23, 2019

UTeach Engineering - Final Evaluation Report

UTeachEngineering Summative Evaluation Report by Tony Petrosino on Scribd

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Where Does a Tree Get Its Mass? - Petrosino, Mann, and Jenevein (2018)

W ork on alternative conceptions of tree growth has extensively documented how students of nearly all developmental and educational level...

Friday, February 9, 2018

Fall 2017 Project Based Instruction Diary

This post contains two useful pieces of information about the Teach Project Based Instruction course. First, there is the enacted curriculum...

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

What Universities Must Do to Prepare Computer Science Teachers: Networked Improvement in Action

I recently attended a workshop/conference in Boulder, Colorado for bridging computer science and engineering in teacher education . It is...

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Petrosino Discusses Computer Science and Colleges of Education at NSF Workshop in NYC

Screen shot of NetLogo Interface I recently received an NSF award for work with cloud computing with colleagues Walter Stroup (UMass- Da...

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Happy UTeach Day in Austin, Texas!

Dr. Michael Marder- Executive Director Happy UTeach Day in Austin, Texas! The City of Austin Council Meeting on May 18th, 2017 will decl...

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About Me

Dr. Anthony Petrosino: Dr. Petrosino is a graduate of Columbia University's Teachers College (MA, 1990) and received his PhD from Vanderbilt University (1998). He completed a post-doc at the University of Wisconsin where he was a member of the National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science (NCISLA). In 1999 he accepted a Professorship at the University of Texas and received tenure in 2004. He holds the Elizabeth G. Gibb Endowed Fellowship in Mathematics Education. Dr. Petrosino has published over 20 peer reviewed journal articles, made over 100 national and international conference presentations and has supervised a dozen doctoral dissertations. He has received over 30 million dollars in grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education and the McDonnel Foundation for Cognitive Studies. He is a founding professor of the nationally recognized UTeach Natural Sciences preservice teacher education program. From July 2007 to August 2009 he served as the Assistant to the Superintendent in the Hoboken School District.

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