DACTM Student Scholarship Awards, Southeastern Michigan Colleg

October 6, 2008

DACTM Student Scholarship Awards

Purpose
The goal is to financially assist students currently enrolled in a teacher education program with a mathematics specialty. The award is to be used for tuition, books, labs, and fees necessary to fulfill requirements for a BA or BS degree with teacher certification in mathematics.

Eligibility
Each applicant must be currently enrolled at a Southeastern Michigan college or university in an elementary or secondary teacher education program with a mathematics specialty. An applicant must be a college/university junior or senior in good academic standing by December 15, 2008, with an overall GPA of 3.00 or higher. In addition, secondary education majors must have successfully completed the college’s or university’s required calculus sequence, while elementary education majors must have at least a mathematics minor. The classification (junior or senior) for an applicant who has earned a degree in another area and has enrolled in a teacher education program will be determined by his/her December 15, 2008 status in the teacher education program.
Award
A check for $1,000 will be paid to the scholarship recipient(s). The term of each scholarship is for one year and shall not be renewable.
Requirements - Applicants must submit:

* Completed Scholarship Form available at www.dactm.org.
* Typewritten essay of your personal goals/philosophy related to the teaching of mathematics, not to exceed one page in length,
* List of extracurricular/community activities and interests (not to be included in the essay),
* List of extracurricular activities related to teaching or to the support of student learning,
* Current transcript(s) or copies of grades from all colleges and university’s you have attended,
* Official statement from current college transcript office verifying anticipated junior/senior status as of December 15, 2008,
* One letter of recommendation on official letterhead from persons who can best attest to your potential for becoming a teacher of mathematics at the level you plan to teach. This would include, but not be necessarily limited to, persons such as mathematics and mathematics education professors, education/academic advisors, supervisors of classroom field experience, or a supervisor for a job in which you worked with children/students of any level in an educational, teaching, tutoring, or coaching situation.

Application Deadline
Submit the completed DACTM Scholarship Form and attach documents in one envelope, postmarked no later than December 15, 2008 to:

Detroit Area Council of Teachers of Mathematics

DACTM Scholarship Committee
P.O. Box 1877
Royal Oak, MI 48068-1877

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