Briefly education

-- Deirdre Newman

Orange Coast College will soon have more resources to attract students

to the teaching profession.

The community college has been selected to take part in the Teaching

Scholar Partnerships program and will receive a two-year grant of about

$30,000.

The program is designed to encourage community college students in

science, mathematics, engineering and technology to share their knowledge

with kindergarten through 12th-grade students and consider teaching as a

career.

OCC students are already teaching science to local elementary school

students through the college’s Westside Science Project. For the past

year, Orange Coast students have been working at three elementary schools

on Costa Mesa’s Westside.

OCC was one of 10 community colleges in the country to be selected to

take part in the program.