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This summer the Rochester Area Colleges-Center for Excellence in Math and Science is sponsoring six summer institutes for K-12 teachers. Each Institute will be led by regional college faculty in a challenging one or two-week session.
The goals of the Rochester Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) Teaching Institutes are to provide high quality professional development and to establish a regional professional learning community committed to continuous improvement in STEM education.
The Center for Excellence in Math and Science defines "High Quality Professional Development" as a challenging professional learning experience that:
- focuses on STEM content; hands-on, active learning
- aligns with standards, assessments, & curriculum
- encourages professional collaboration
- provides opportunities to analyze and apply research
- incorporates knowledge of adult learning
- provides a rich set of diverse activities
- is intensive and sustained
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Our goal is to support and encourage area colleges and community educational organizations to provide professional development opportunities that meet these standards.
Each STEM Institute supports the NYS Learning Standards using active learning to deliver a high quality professional development experience. However, the conclusion of the intensive summer experience is truly just the beginning for the participants.
Each course will extend throughout the year with scheduled contacts and peer-to-peer networking. These are not optional activities, but rather an integral part of the Institute coursework. STEM Institute participants will:
- Receive materials that will enable them to implement the instructional activities developed during the Institute in their classroom
- Attend follow-up sessions with the instructor during the school year
- Participate online with fellow participants and the course instructor
- Provide training to colleagues in their own district with the support of provided course materials
In addition participants will be encouraged to:
- Present a poster with fellow Institute participants at the 2008 RAC-CEMS Collaboration Event on October 2nd, 2008.
- Conduct one lesson for a school supervisor in order to receive feedback, or submit a recorded lesson to the Institute instructor for feedback.
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Inquiry in Earth Science
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Intermediate
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A unique opportunity of exploration and learning in the Earth Sciences through the use of hands-on inquiry-based exhibits and experimentation |
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Mathematics, Science and Technology Institute
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Intermediate
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This summer institute for mathematics and science teachers of grades 5 through 8 will use inquiry and technology to explore the many connections between math and science that exist all around us. |
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Biotechnology Institute:
Human Evolution and the Genetics of the Human Race
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Secondary
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The core issue presented during the Biotechnology Institute is as relevant today as it was when science first attempted to address it in the 1840's; namely, is the classification of humans into racial groups a purely cultural construct or does it have a genetic basis? |
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The Finger Lakes GIT Ahead Summer Institute:
Using Geospatial Technology to Teach Science
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Secondary
(6th-12th) |
GIT Ahead provides opportunities for
teachers to learn about geographic information technologies (GIT), such as GIS, GPS, Google
Earth, Google Maps, and a variety of geospatial web-based resources as they develop and
identify science lesson and unit plans for their classroom. |
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Exploring Algebraic Patterns and Relationships through the use of Videocases
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Secondary
(5th-12th) |
Participants will deepen their understanding of the concept of linear functions and where and how these ideas can be developed and supported across the grades. Teachers will also develop skills to make informed decisions when teaching linear relationships. |
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Inquiry-based, Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Science, Technology and Literacy
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Elementary
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Teachers will become students for portions of the institute, experiencing first hand activities that allow incorporation of photography (time-lapse, stop-motion, and photo-documentation), literacy and subject content which may include animal adaptations, plant response to the environment, the water cycle, and weather. |
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Click here for additional Rochester area summer programs for teachers.
Inquiry in Earth Science
Overview
The Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) offers a unique opportunity of exploration and learning in the Earth Sciences through the use of hands-on inquiry-based exhibits, experimentation supported by take away materials and facilitation by content specialists and professionals in the field of formal and informal education.
Teachers will take part in a workshop focusing on the Intermediate Core Science Curriculum, including: geological processes, weather, fossils and astronomy. Participants will have the unique opportunity to take advantage of key components in the newly expanded Expedition Earth, the Strasenburgh Planetarium, the new Time Warner Weather exhibition and extensive museum collections.
During the workshop, teachers will conduct experiments and create tools that will allow them to bring the experience gained in the workshop back to their classroom in the fall. In addition participants will create take-home materials such as a complete weather station to help them reproduce these activities in their classrooms. Each teacher will also receive a web cam to support technologically-based learning activities within their classroom.
The culmination of this workshop will be a day where teachers will collaborate to create lesson plans grounded in inquiry which support New York State MST learning standards, share their ideas and lessons with the group, and reflect upon the experiences gained by participation in the workshop.
In addition to new lesson plans, take-home materials, valuable experiences, the formation of a newly created science support group at the museum, and new professional friendships, teachers will also receive a compact disk with reviews of lesson plans, experiments conducted throughout the week, web links, supply lists, and a complete PowerPoint presentation for their use when facilitating professional development programs in their own buildings for their home faculty. To promote sustained learning, teachers will be provided with support over an approximately ten-month period with four points of contact.
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Dates and Locations
The Inquiry in Earth Science workshop will be Monday – Friday, July 7th-11th, 2008 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm with an hour lunch break each day. It will take place at the RMSC.
During the 2008-2009 school year there will be 4 more points of contact between the participants and RMSC facilitators: 1) October - a 2-hour meeting between facilitators and participating teachers to share new information and discuss plans for the school year; 2) Late 2008 – a one-on-one phone check-in between a facilitator and each participant to discuss their curriculum plans and lend assistance; 3) Early 2009 – a one-on-one meeting between a facilitator and each participant to assist with an in-class experience; and 4) Spring 2009 – a poster session featuring all workshop participants at an RMSC Teacher Open House event to share the classroom results of their summer experience with teachers from across the region.
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Point of Contact:
Deborah Massey
Head of School and Teacher Programs
Rochester Museum & Science Center
657 East Avenue
Rochester, NY
(585) 271-4552 x521
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Support of Learning Standards:
This workshop will support all of the New York State Math, Science, and Technology Learning Standards. Several key points within the Intermediate Level Science Core Curriculum are outlined below:
Pedagogical methods
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Connections to NYS Standards
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Hands-on experimentation
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MST1: Analysis, Inquiry and Design
MST7: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
MST3: Mathematics
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Use of computer-based exhibits
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MST5: Technology
MST3: Mathematics
MST2: Information Systems,
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Inclusion of RMSC content specialists
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CDOS1: Career Development
CDOS2: Integrated learning
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Use of interactive, multidisciplinary exhibits
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MST7: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
MST6: Interconnectedness
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Utilization of web resources
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MST5: Technology
MST2: Information Systems
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Content focus
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Sample of Experiences offered
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Connections to Core Curriculum (the Living Environment and Physical Setting performance indicators)
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History of the Earth
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Expedition Earth
·MOE testing
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MST4 PS: Rocks and minerals (2.1e)
MST4 PS: Geological processes (2.1g, 2.1h, 2.1i)
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Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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·Expedition Earth
·Create a Richter scale
·Earthquake and volcano models
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MST4 PS: Types of rocks (2.2g)
MST4 PS: volcanic activity (2.2a, 2.2r)
MST4 PS: seismic activity (2.2b,2.2f, 4.4c)
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Plate Tectonics and Glaciers
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Expedition Earth
·Model glacier motion and geologic affects.
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MST3: Mathematics
MST4 PS: Plate Tectonics (2.2c-f)
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Weather/Climate Changes
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·Weather exhibition
·Creating weather stations
·Convection current experiments
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MST4 PS: Motion of heat (4.1c, 4.2a-c)
MST4 PS: Water cycle (2.1j)
MST4 PS: Pressure (2.1b,2.2p)
MST4 PS Changes of state (3.1c-f, 3.3b)
MST4 PS: Causes of weather (2.2i, 2.2l-q)
MST3: Mathematics
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Fossils
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·Expedition Earth
·Model geologic process of fossil formation
·Make high-quality fossil molds
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MST4 PS: Fossils (2.1f, 2.2d)
MST4 PS: Earth's surface (2.1c)
MST4 LE: Fossil evidence (3.2b-c)
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Astronomy
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Strasenburgh Planetarium
·Create a stop-motion animation of the Earth's and Moon's motion.
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MST4 PS: The earth's path around the sun (1.1c)
MST4 PS: The stars and constellations move and change throughout the year (1.1e,1.1h)
MST4 LE:Light pollution affects what is visible in our night sky (7.1e)
MST 5: Technology
MST4 PS: Kepler motion (1.1e, 5.2a)
MST4 PS: Phases of the moon (1.1e,1.1g)
MST4 PS: Lunar and solar eclipses. (1.1e)
MST3: Mathematics
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Additional Information
Stipend: $100
Target Audience:
Educators currently teaching in or entering into a 6th – 8th grade classroom, with a need to deliver Earth Science curriculum
Instructors:
Deborah Massey, workshop facilitator, is currently Head of School and Teacher Programs at RSMC and has ten years of experience in adult education, including the development and facilitation of inquiry-based learning as an Assistant Professor of chemistry at Finger Lakes Community College. She grounds her pedagogical methods in twelve years of research experience in both academia and industry in the fields of academic chemistry, biochemistry, marine toxicology, and molecular biology.
Rich Serepilio, workshop facilitator, is a Masters-level teacher in the Rochester City School District with a concentration in Geology and Archeology. Archaeology field experience as a member of the RMSC's Regional Heritage Preservation Program from 1998-2001. Instructor in the RMSC Education Department since 1999, and lead instructor on numerous geologically based fossil finds and landform field experiences.
Dr. Calvin Uzelmeier, Director of Museum Education is a scientist with experience in government, industrial, and academic research settings and has 17 years experience in both formal and informal science education settings, including exhibit development and program delivery for grades P-16. Dr. Uzelmeier has taught as adjunct faculty in Chemistry at Monroe Community College, Nazareth College, and the University of Rochester. He will provide administrative support as well as assist in curriculum development and facilitation as a content-specialist in meteorology and climate change.
Dr. George McIntosh, RMSC Director of Collections. For more than two decades, Dr. McIntosh has pursued his dual interests in geology and public science education at RMSC, working closely with the education and exhibit departments to uphold standards of collection quality, care, and scholarly interpretation. McIntosh served as the chief natural scientist, exhibition curator and collections/content specialist for the recently successfully completed Expedition Earth major exhibition, which was funded in part by NEH. He will assist with workshop development and facilitation as a content specialist in Geology and Paleontology.
Steve Fentress, Director of the Strasenburgh Planetarium, has worked as a lecturer at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA and in the public affairs division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and mission control for the Viking Mars and Voyager outer-planet missions. He will assist with workshop development and facilitation as a content specialist in Astronomy.
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Mathematics, Science & Technology Institute
Overview:
Teachers will experience integrated inquiry based activities aligned with New York State Learning Standards including but not limited to Standard1: Analysis, Inquiry and Design which includes Mathematical Analysis and Scientific Inquiry; Standard 4: Living Environment; Standard 7: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving; and Standard 3: Mathematics for grades 5-8 including Algebra Concepts, Measurement, Number Sense, Statistics and Probability. The target of this workshop is to enhance both content knowledge and pedagogy in math and science. Participants will produce materials that can be used in their classes as well as creating a plan for continual reflection on how math, science and technology integration can be regularly implemented in the curriculum. Graphing calculators, probeware, SmartBoards, LCD projectors will be some of the technology that will be used during this workshop as well as technology that will allow participants to continue to collaborate with each other and the facilitators through out the year. Participants will not only experience inquiry based learning but the workshop will also foster the creation of activities specifically aligned with the curriculum that the participants will be using through out the year.
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Dates and Locations:
The workshop will be conducted over four days during the summer with two follow up sessions during the school year:
Summer Institute will take place:
August 18 through August 21
8:00 am – 4:30 pm
St. John Fisher College
There will also be two follow up sessions during the 2008-2009 school year.
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Point of Contact:
Dr. Diane Barrett
Graduate Program in Math, Science & Technology Education
St. John Fisher College
3690 East Avenue
Rochester, NY
(585) 385-8366
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Support of Learning Standards:
This summer institute for mathematics and science teachers of grades 5 through 8 will use inquiry and technology to explore the many connections between math and science that exist all around us. Teachers will experience integrated inquiry based activities aligned with New York State Learning Standards including but not limited to the following.
Standard1: Analysis, Inquiry and Design, which includes Mathematical Analysis and Scientific Inquiry
Standard 2: Information Systems
Standard 3: Mathematics for grades 5-8 including Algebra Concepts, Measurement, Number Sense, Statistics and Probability
Standard 4: Science - Living Environment
Standard 6: Interconnectedness: Common Themes
Standard 7: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
Since this entire institute will focus on an integrative inquiry based approach to math and science not only will the activities used in the workshop, but also those produced by its participants for their classrooms will focus on using mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry and engineering design to question and problem solve. The Living Environment will be the primary science content that will be addressed. The Key Ideas in the Living Environment include the central purpose of scientific inquiry as well as devising ways of making observations to testing hypothesis. In order to quantify their results of these investigations, mathematics from grades 5 through 8 mathematics standards (revised 2005) will be used. Those most relevant will be algebraic concepts, measurement, number sense, statistics and probability however others may also be addressed. Clearly, based upon the nature of this institute Standard 6: Interconnectedness of mathematics, science and technology will also be strongly supported. Graphing calculators, probe ware, SmartBoards, LCD projectors will be some of the technology that will be used during this workshop, which will also support Standard 2: Information Systems. Thus, NYS Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 for grades 5 – 8 will be supported by the MST Institute.
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Additional Information:
Stipend: $100 for each follow-up session (2 sessions are planned)
Instructors:
Dr. Diane Barrett is a mathematics educator with K-12 experience. She is director of the graduate program in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (GMST), which focuses on developing inquiry-approaches the math and science using technology.
Dr. Kris Green is a mathematician/scientist with a broad background in science and engineering. He teaches math and integrated science content courses for candidates in GMST.
Brenda Green is an elementary educator and the science lead teacher at Plank North in Webster. She has also taught pedagogical courses in GMST and has extensive experience integrating subject matter across the disciplines.
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Biotechnology Institute: Human Evolution and the Genetics of the Human Race
Overview:
Participants will determine the sequence of a hypervariable region of their own mitochondrial DNA and compare their sequence to those of others in the Institute and to sequences available in bioinformatics databases. This exercise will introduce teachers to many of the fundamental laboratory procedures in biotechnology as well as the bioinformatics and computational applications used in modern biomedical research. Modern biotechnology is actually a collection of technologies, including recombinant DNA technologies, which capitalize on the attributes of living cells to solve problems or make products. Biotechnology is used in a wide variety of industries, including agriculture (e.g., genetically engineered crops), crime prevention (e.g., DNA fingerprinting), environmental conservation (green plastics and bioremediation) and medicine (new drugs and vaccines). Although biotechnology is revolutionizing our understanding of life, health and disease, it has been largely excluded from the science classroom, particularly in the larger urban school districts. This is partly a reflection of the rapid pace of scientific progress. Teachers, particularly those who entered the classroom more than a decade ago, find it increasingly difficult to remain current in their understanding of a science that is undergoing such explosive change. In addition, they often find it a daunting task to bring modern biotechnology experiments into their classes because they perceive a learning curve that is too steep. Unfortunately, their students miss important learning experiences that could inspire them toward careers in science at a time when the need for a well-educated and skilled biotechnology workforce has never been greater. The Biotechnology Institute at RIT will provide high school teachers with the theoretical underpinnings, the biotechnology-based laboratory protocols, and, most importantly, the confidence they will need to develop an inquiry-based approach to the topic of macroevolution and speciation by engaging students in the intriguing question of human racial identity.
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Dates and Locations:
Location of the Institute:
Center for Bioscience Education Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology campus
Duration of Institute:
5 days, July 21 – July 25
6 hours per day, 8 am to 2 pm
3 follow-up sessions (fall, winter, and spring - TBD)
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Points of Contact:
Douglas Merrill
Center for Bioscience Education and Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
(585) 475-4363
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Virginia Borden Maier
School of Life Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology
(585) 475-2476
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Douglas Llewellyn
School of Education
St. John Fisher College
(585) 385-7256
email
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Support of Learning Standards:
Reform in math and science education rests on a commitment to quality teaching and learning. This implies a vision for professional development closely aligned to state content standards. The RIT Biotechnology Institute will foster and integrate NYS Learning Standards in both mathematics and science. The Learning Standards key ideas supported by the institute include: genetics, evolution, measurement, statistics and probability, mathematics problem solving, and scientific inquiry. Furthermore, the Institute will incorporate inquiry-based instruction as a means to engage participants in relevant and significant questions and problems.
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Additional Information:
Target Audience:
Secondary school science and technology teachers in Grades 7-12
Specific Goals:
• Up-to-date information they can use to engage their students in discussions of genetics, evolution and the use of biotechnology to benefit humankind.
• Experience with fundamental biotechnology tools, including mitochondrial DNA isolation, spectrophotometry, gel electrophoresis, PCR and gene sequencing they can take back to the classroom.
• Experience with fundamental bioinformatics applications, including the use of NCBI search tools for analyzing DNA sequences.
• Learning opportunities related to topics in biotechnology and evolution that can be replicated in the secondary school science classroom and are aligned to New York State Learning Standard.
• An understanding of the meaning of race and an appreciation for human diversity through a genetic perspective.
• An opportunity to bring his/her class to RIT and the CBET laboratories during the school year for the purpose of using the department facilities (in collaboration with CBET faculty members) for completing standards-related inquiries.
Program Staff:
The organizers of the Biotechnology Institute are all science educators with years of experience in teaching at both the high school and college levels and experts in their fields. They are skilled at both the pedagogical approaches to the subject matter as well as the laboratory-based approaches.
• Douglas Merrill is Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of RIT's Center for Bioscience Education and Technology. He has been teaching at the college ranks for 30 years, with expertise in human biology, anatomy and physiology, environmental physiology and histology. Dr. Merrill is a recipient of the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching at RIT.
• Virginia Borden Maier is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute (RIT) of Technology with over 15 years of college teaching experience ranging from non-majors courses to senior-level Evolutionary Biology classes. Maier is co-author of Biology: Science for Life, a textbook for non-majors, and its accompanying lab manual, both published by Pearson Benjamin Cummings.
• Douglas Llewellyn is a science educator with an interest in inquiry-based teaching and constructivist learning practices. Llewellyn teaches educational leadership courses at St. John Fisher College and is the author of Teaching High School Science Through Inquiry.
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The Finger Lakes GIT Ahead Summer Institute: Using Geospatial Technology to Teach Science
Overview:
During the GIT Ahead Institute, teachers will:
• experience field and computer-based inquiry investigations that incorporate the use
of geospatial technologies,
• learn about Finger Lakes watershed research and management issues from regional
scientists, planners and other professionals,
• begin developing a unit that uses geospatial technologies to help students learn
science while addressing environmental issues of local or regional concern.
We focus on providing our teachers with a supportive and collaborative atmosphere within
which they can learn about new tools and find ways to integrate geospatial technologies into
existing curricula, especially Regents science classes. GIT Ahead teachers vary in their
experience using technology and the courses they teach (Living Environment, Earth Science,
Environmental Science, International Baccalaureate, AP Courses, General Science, etc.).
Ongoing support is provided through Saturday workshops, email and web-based
communications, and individual face-to-face assistance during the academic year. Graduate
course credit through Hobart and William Smith Colleges is available.
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Dates and Locations:
Duration of Institute:
8 days, 8 hours per day, 8:30-5:00, evening events optional
At least 4 Saturday workshops during the academic year
Ongoing support as needed
Dates and location of Institute:
July 7th – 11th, Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (Auburn, NY) and the
Finger Lakes Institute at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, NY)
Aug 25th – 27th, Finger Lakes Institute at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, NY)
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Points of Contact:
Karen Edelstein
GIT Ahead Project Manager
Finger Lakes Institute
601 S. Main St.
Geneva, NY 14456
edelstein@hws.edu
(315) 781-4385
Dr. Jim MaKinster
Co-director, GIT Ahead
Education and Environmental Studies
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
(315) 781-3141
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Dr. Nancy Trautmann
Co-director, GIT Ahead
Department of Natural Resources
Cornell University
email
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Support of Learning Standards:
Objectives:
The GIT Ahead Project is a collaborative effort among the Finger Lakes Institute at Hobart and
William Smith Colleges, Cayuga Community College, Cornell University, the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology, and New York State Geographical Information Systems Association. The ultimate goal is to help rural and urban high school students see geospatial technology as pathways to relevant, exciting, and high-demand careers, and to create higher education pathways for students who might not otherwise pursue such goals. GIT Ahead will accomplish these goals through teacher professional development, the development of the Internet-based Finger Lakes GIS Explorer software, and a series of classroom and job–focused GIT opportunities for students. Interdisciplinary teams of teachers will attend a
two-week summer institute that will provide training in relevant technologies along with time and support for development of inquiry-based curriculum projects tailored for use in their own classes. Participating students will have opportunities to experience GIT-enhanced units in their high school classes, enter the GIS Associate's Degree program at Cayuga Community College, and participate in summer internships at the Finger Lakes Institute, the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology, and regional businesses.
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Additional Information:
Stipend: $100 per day for Aug 25th – 27th and up to four Saturday workshops
Target Audience: (grade levels, subjects taught)
Grades 6-12, Living Environment, Earth Science, Environmental Science, International
Baccalaureate, AP Courses, General Science
Instructors:
Dr. James G. MaKinster facilitates the overall management of GIT Ahead, provides oversight at the Finger Lakes Institute, and focuses on teacher professional development. Dr. MaKinster is an Assistant Professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the Director of the Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute, and a supervisory committee member of the Finger Lakes Institute. An expert in teacher professional development, curriculum development, and the use of technology in educational settings, he is the former co-director of an inquiry-based global education project entitled BRIDGE. His graduate work involved working with large numbers of teachers in web-supported learning communities and
conducting professional development workshops related to inquiry-based teaching.
Dr. Nancy Trautmann is Director of Cornell University's Environmental Inquiry (EI) and Cornell Science Inquiry Partnerships (CSIP) programs. Her work focuses on development of inquiry-based environmental science curriculum resources, including four books published by the National Science Teachers Association: Watershed Dynamics (Carlsen, Trautmann et al. 2004), Decay and Renewal (Trautmann, Krasny et al. 2003), Invasion Ecology (Krasny, Trautmann et al. 2002), and Assessing Toxic Risk (Trautmann, Carlsen et al. 2001). She currently is completing doctoral studies in computer-supported collaborative learning.
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Exploring Algebraic Patterns and relationships through the use of Videocases
Overview:
The overarching goal of this institute is that of helping teachers develop their ability to make informed decisions about their own teaching of mathematics. A necessary component to this is the development of the teachers' own understanding of the content--specifically linear relationships.
Broad pedagogical goals, as outlined by the authors of the materials, are:
• Improving teachers' disciplinary content knowledge as it relates to teaching;
• Improving teachers' ability/propensity to identify and categorize student thinking in ways useful to making decisions about teaching mathematics;
• Improving teachers' ability/propensity to select mathematics tasks suited to teaching particular mathematics concepts; and
• Improving teachers' ability/propensity to forecast student thinking about mathematical tasks.
Attendees to the institute have the opportunity to gain experience in looking at student work critically and using it as evidence of student understanding or student misconception. They develop skill in collegial discussion of the decision making process so crucial to the art of teaching. They take away deeper understandings of the meanings of linear relationships and the ways to express or visualize these relationships. Pre and post assessments include questions on mathematical content and questions designed to measure growth in deciphering student work for evidence of learning.
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Dates and Locations:
Duration of Institute: 2 full 7-hour days (8:30 am – 3:30 pm) and 4, 3-hour sessions (1 pm – 4 pm) in summer; 1 Follow-up day during school year. (~30 Professional Development hours total including some work to be done outside of the Institute sessions.)
Dates and location of Institute: June 30 + July 1 (full-days) + July 7,9,10 & 11(1/2 days); To be held at Twelve Corners Middle School in Brighton. (This structure is specifically designed to accommodate teachers of Summer School.)
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Point of Contact:
Cynthia Callard
Director of Mathematics Outreach
Warner Center for Professional Development & Education Reform
University of Rochester
Dewey Hall
PO Box #270425
Rochester, NY 14627
(585) 275-2616
email
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Support of Learning Standards:
The mathematical content focus for this institute is a key component of the New York State Core Curriculum for mathematics: "Students will recognize, use, and represent algebraically patterns, relations, and functions" (NYS Learning Standards, 2005). As participants are encouraged to examine the authenticity of the linear relationship they develop skills related to NYS MST Standard 6; Interconnectedness: Common Themes; and Standard 7; Interdisciplinary Problem Solving. These important connections become second nature to participants as their work in the institute progresses, and the likelihood of teachers bringing this new awareness into their classrooms increases.
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Additional Information:
Target Audience: 5th-12th grade teachers of Mathematics
Instructors:
Mary Bellini and Beverly House, mathematics educators for decades, are also experienced facilitators of professional development for the Warner Center for Professional Development and Education Reform at the University of Rochester. In addition to having been trained in and having facilitated a variety of professional development offerings in mathematics, they were specifically trained in the use of the Video Cases for Mathematics Professional Development by the authors of the materials in San Diego in 2006. Since then, they have facilitated this institute in the Rochester region a number of times and were selected in the fall of 2007 to be a site for follow-up research on the fidelity of, and adaptations to, the materials.
The facilitators will be supported by Dr. Cynthia Callard, Director of Mathematics Outreach, and the staff of the Warner Center for Professional Development and Education Reform at the University of Rochester. The Center has a distinguished reputation for the successful implementation of professional development in the region, state, and nation.
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Inquiry-based, Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Science, Technology and Literacy (MSTL) for grades K-6
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Overview:
We will be offering a four-day intensive summer institute for K-6 teachers. This institute will model an interdisciplinary, inquiry-based approach to teach MSTL content. Teachers will become students for portions of the institute, experiencing first hand activities that allow incorporation of photography (time-lapse, stop-motion, and photo-documentation), literacy and subject content which may include animal adaptations, plant response to the environment, the water cycle, and weather. Teachers will leave the Institute with at least one classroom-ready lesson plan, access to resources to implement their activity, and on-going support from Institute faculty and Master Teacher Coaches during the 2008-2009 school year.
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Dates and Locations:
Duration of the Institute:
Four days, 7 hours/day plus 1 hour preparation time
Eligible for 32 PD hours for the summer workshop, plus 3 hours for two follow-up meetings during the school year
Dates and Location:
August 11-14, 2008, Nazareth College
One evening date to be determined in the fall
One evening date to be determined in the spring
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Point of Contact:
Beverly J. Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biology Department
Nazareth College
4245 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618
(585) 389-2555
email
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Support of Learning Standards:
The Institute provides the opportunity for teachers to develop lesson plans that address all of the Learning Standards listed in the RFP. Each teacher will be able to choose which areas they would like to focus on with the potential to include aspects of NYS MST Learning Standards 1-7.
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Additional Information:
Target Audience:
All pre-service or in-service teachers of grades K-6, especially those interested in addressing New York State Standards in Science, Mathematics, Technology and Literacy.
Instructors:
We are building on the very successful institute model that several of the Institute faculty implemented in the summer of 2007 and the TLQP program which has been ongoing for many years in the Rochester City Schools. Content experts will have Ph.D. or M.S./M.A degrees as appropriate to their content areas. All Institute faculty will be well-established teachers committed to teaching excellence that supports true student learning. Current faculty include Dr. Beverly J. Brown (Ph.D. Ecology), Dr. Heather Ames Lewis (Ph.D. Mathematics), Professor Sheila Brady Root (Adjunct Professor in Biology and Chemistry). We will be identifying a literacy expert and hiring master teachers in addition to the experts listed above.
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