Summer Institute

summer teacher institute

Registration Deadline: April 15, 2019
ALL 5th Grade teachers in DPSCD are encouraged to participate! SIGN UP NOW even if you can't participate in this summer's Institute.

Participating in a Summer Teacher Institute is required before bringing your class to the Belle Isle Aquarium. The Institutes are limited to 35 participants each, so sign up early!

Benefits, Requirements, and Content of the Summer Teacher Institute

How Teacher Participants Will Benefit:
1.  Participation in a 4-day Summer Teacher Institute on Belle Isle in 2019 or 2020.
a. Gain new knowledge and skills through presentations, hands-on activities, field trips, and lesson plan development.
     b. Receive classroom supplies, activity guides, and other resources.
     c. Receive $800 for attending a summer institute, $200 for a refresher fall workshop, and up to $1100 total in stipends for participation over 2 years.
     d. Choose to earn 24 SCECHs OR 2 graduate credits from Michigan Technological University at no additional cost, with completion of course requirements (assigned reading and preparation of lesson plans).
2. Bring your class on a field trip to the Belle Isle Aquarium (BIA) to engage your students in scientific investigations, science career explorations, and hands-on activities.
3.   Opportunities for $500 grants to develop classroom projects.

Program Requirements of Teacher Participants:

Attend one 4-day Summer Teacher Institute on Belle Isle in 2018 or 2019.
- The NSF project will assign which year.
- Sign up for the program NOW and the project will take into account which years you are available.
Bring classes on a field trip to the Belle Isle Aquarium.
Participate in activities after the Summer Teacher Institute to assess teachers’ and students’ STEM interest, knowledge, and behavior. Participation in this project is voluntary.

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The DPSCD Office of Research, Evaluation, Assessment and Accountability has approved this project.

Content of the Summer Teacher Institute

4-Day Summer Teacher Institute
at the Belle Isle Aquarium
August 5 - 8, 2019 and similar dates in 2020
The Institute will meet Monday to Thursday, 8:30 am-3:30 pm.
This professional development experience is designed to enhance content knowledge and pedagogy skills of fifth grade classroom teachers to teach about aquatic systems (e.g., lakes and ponds on Belle Isle and at the Belle Isle Aquarium) via field trips, data collection and analysis, lesson plan development, and hands-on activities. Science, social studies, math, language arts, and technology standards will be woven into the Institute, including discussions with experts and science career role models.
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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 September 4, 2018 to June 14, 2019.