This section features teaching and professional development resources for precollege teachers of government and politics as well as opportunities for college faculty interested in the professional development of precollege government teachers. If have questions, comments, or additional information, please let us know at teaching@apsanet.org.

For additional resources on the APSA website about teaching, see:

• Online Resources for Teaching
  
• Teaching Political Science
  
• Civic Education

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRE-COLLEGE TEACHING

Graduate Teaching Fellowships in Elementary and Secondary Education
This National Science Foundation program supports fellowships and associated training that will enable graduate students and advanced undergraduates in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology to serve as resources in elementary and secondary schools.  For more information, see the NSF site: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5472&org=ESIE. 

Other NSF Funding Opportunities
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=ESIE

C-SPAN Middle & High School Teacher Fellowships and Archives Grants
C-SPAN offers fellowships and grants to middle and high school teachers and college/university professors who have demonstrated and/or submit proposals for innovative use of C-SPAN programming in the classroom or in research projects.  For more information, see: http://www.c-span.org/classroom/csic_opportunities.asp

PRE-COLLEGE TEACHING NEWS ITEMS

The 100% Registration Project
Website: http://www.fairvote.org/?page=1543
The overall goal of the 100% Registration Project is to create a voter registration system under which the government shares responsibility for registration with its citizens to ensure clean and complete voter rolls. Having 100% registration will address the remarkably low 72% rate of registration among eligible voters, significantly reduce duplications and omissions in the voter rolls and help create a system that balances the concerns of election accessibility and voter fraud.

The first major proposal in this project is a high school voter registration program that seeks to register all students before they leave high school and educate them on the voting process in their community. High school registration will not only lead to cleaner and more complete voter rolls, but also has the potential to increase youth political participation.

Innovation in Advanced Placement Teaching
Many high school graduates entering college arrive with college credit for  Advanced Placement test in American Government and/or Comparative Government.  ETS data report that many students who take the AP course in Government or Comparative Politics go on to take additional courses at the college level.  Read about an innovative class designed by one AP Government teacher in Virginia.