Advantages to Sponsoring a Teacher IISME Sponsors benefit from skilled, professional summer employees, at a fraction of the cost of contractors. Sponsors gain:
Eager and skilled temporary professional employees to work on a project (without adding to the "headcount”)
Cost effective way to complete short-term or back-burnered projects
An avenue to reach their future workforce through one-on-one contact with teachers
A direct way to improve teacher retention and the quality of instruction in our schools
Community recognition as well as employee moral boost
Teachers who apply to IISME typically have at least a Bachelor’s degree in the subject they teach; many have Masters Degrees. Most are technically savvy and at a minimum are comfortable with MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The skills a good teacher develops to teach a subject and manage a classroom have value in the industry or university workplace. Besides expertise in at least one subject and a basic, comprehensive, working knowledge of related subjects, teachers possess the ability to:
Take a complex or large concept or process and break it into components
Identify the essential concepts of an issue
Communicate well in oral and written form
Work with many different personalities
Frame questions for information gathering, as in interviews or for research purposes
Make quick, intuitive decisions
Please email or call (408) 553-2249 if you have any questions or would like to learn more about sponsoring IISME teachers at your worksite
