summer teacher institute
In Response to COVID-19 our highly regarded Belle Isle Aquarium Summer Teacher Institute is being offered ONLINE, August 3-6, 2020.
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ALL 5th Grade teachers in DPSCD are encouraged to participate! SIGN UP NOW |
The Institutes are limited to 35 participants each, so sign up early!
Benefits, Requirements, and Content of the Summer Teacher Institute
Benefits, Requirements, and Content of the Summer Teacher Institute
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How Teacher Participants Will Benefit:
1. The 4-day online Summer Teacher Institute with Aquarium educators will: a. Convey new knowledge and skills through presentations, hands-on activities, virtual field trips, and development of grant projects and lesson plans. b. Provide classroom supplies, activity guides, and other resources. c. Pay you $800 for attending the Summer Institute, with additional stipends for other activities through 2021. d. Enable you to earn 24 SCECHs from Michigan Technological University at no additional cost, with completion of Institute requirements (attendance, readings and assigned activities). 2.Support bringing your class on a field trip to the Belle Isle Aquarium (BIA) pending resumption of DPSCD field trips. Learn about our NEW virtual field trip and how to engage your students in scientific investigations, science career explorations, and hands-on activities. 3. Encourage applications for $500 grants for student projects in your class. Program Requirements of Teacher Participants:
The DPSCD Office of Research, Evaluation, Assessment and Accountability has approved this project. |
Content of the Summer Teacher Institute
4-Day Summer Teacher Institute
by the Belle Isle Aquarium August 3 - 6, 2020 The Institute will meet Monday to Thursday, 9:00 am-3:30 pm. Due to DPSCD’s decision to offer no in-person professional development this summer, we are moving the Summer Institute ONLINE. Each day we will meet online from 9 am – noon, with breaks and breakouts, then go off-line for lunch and assigned self-directed activities offline until 3 pm, reporting back and sharing from 3 to 3:30 pm. The Institute is designed to enhance pedagogy and knowledge of content, science processes, and science careers of 5th grade classroom teachers. Activities include exploration of aquatic systems, field trips, data collection and analysis, and hands-on experiments. Science, social studies, math, language arts, and technology standards will be woven into the Institute, including discussions with experts and science career role models - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1614187, entitled "Promoting Student Interest in Science and Science Careers through a Place-Based Environmental Education Program at a Public Aquarium" Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. This recruitment information has been approved by the Wayne State University Institutional Review Board for the period of June 2, 2020 to May 6, 2021 |
To learn more about our Summer Teacher Institute, please view our award-winning STEM-for-ALL Video about it, at https://stemforall2020.videohall.com/presentations/1753. This summer many of the hands-on experiences at the Institute will be done as "do it yourself activities" with materials that will be sent to you before the Institute, to give you as meaningful an experience with your colleagues as previous Institutes.