| We are pleased to announce that the Spring 2010 issue of Global TeachNet News is now available. Click here to access the PDF file of the newsletter, featuring great information and ideas for incorporating global issues into education. Some of topics we're exploring in this issue are: · K-8 corner: Taking a Look at Haiti · 9-12 corner: Food and Us - Gardening Locally & Globally · The Millennium Development Goals · Lots of resources, learning and travel opportunities and more! I hope you enjoy this issue and will let us know how you're sharing these and other resources in classrooms and communities. Please send your letters or materials for the next issue (including your recommendations for summer reading) by May 15 to Susan Neyer, editor, at susanneyer@astound.net.Peace, Anne Baker Vice President, NPCA |
Friday, March 26, 2010
Spring Global TeachNet News Now Available
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Combined teaching license in Health and Physical Education
To assist interested teachers in accessing this opportunity, the Office of Academic Outreach and Department of Public Health Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in consultation with the NC Department of Public Instruction has developed a three (3) CEU on-line continuing education course designed to meet this new State provision.
We need your assistance to make this CEU opportunity accessible to Physical Educators in your LED. Your help is needed within the following areas:
Please seek the approval of this program within the continuing education structure of your LED.
Please make this option known to physical education teachers in your LED.
We have attached the following information for your review :
The “State Board of Education Approves New Licensure Area” (page 1) This document outlines the new provision approved by the State Board of Education.
A half page promotional flyer describing the program.
An overview of the North Carolina Effective Health Education Project (NCEHEP).
The NCEHEP syllabus and resource document.
NCEHEP website: http://phe.edu/ncehep Toll free number: 877-248-351
Mail address: Office of Academic Outreach, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2900 Oakland Ave, Greensboro, NC 27402
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Video Conferencing Opportunities
Please forward this email to educators who might be interested in learning more about videoconferencing opportunities or who might want to participate themselves.
Carole Stern
NCSSM Outreach Specialist
919 416-2635
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
“The Teaching of Africa” PIER-African Studies Summer Institute July 6-16, 2010
“The Teaching of Africa”
PIER-African Studies Summer Institute
July 6-16, 2010
Teaching about Africa is a challenge in the classroom today. Educators
and other professionals face a new and often daunting task of knowing
how to learn or teach about Africa. If you are an educator, curriculum
specialist, librarian, or a business or media professional, “The Teaching of
Africa” will transform your perspective and equip you with ideas and
practical approaches to the teaching and understanding of Africa. This
intensive introductory course in African Studies is designed to help
educators learn about Africa in a way that they can then teach
confidently about its peoples, civilizations, and cultures. The course is also
developed to enable participants to identify and access unique resources
about the continent. The program includes several hands-on cultural and
artistic projects complemented by a full-day field trip to cultural sites in
New York City. Participants are required to attend four Saturday followup
sessions during the fall and spring to transform the summer institute
content into viable classroom materials.
Registration Fee: $350 including texts, materials, and more. Housing, meals and
parking are extra. Fees may be required to cover meals on field trip and special
events. Limited financial assistance is available in the form of post-institute
reimbursement.
Please contact Maxwell Amoh, PIER Director, for more information at 203‐432‐3438;
maxwell.amoh@yale.edu
Sponsored by PIER, the Council on African Studies, the MacMillan Center, and the U.S.
Department of Education through a Title VI NRC grant; and co‐sponsored by the Connecticut
Geographic Alliance.
Housing Information: We encourage all participants, even in‐state participants, to stay in
residence at Yale or local hotel because the Institute is intensive, with daily reading
assignments and evening activities. The residential experience and the camaraderie it fosters
deepen the total Institute experience.
On‐campus Housing and Parking: Participants wishing to stay on campus should contact Yale
Conference Services directly to make their room reservations (and parking arrangements, if
needed) at https://www.regonline.com/pier. Payment must be made using a credit card.
Hotel Choices in New Haven: Participants wishing to stay in a hotel should contact the hotel
directly. For information on area hotels, please visit www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/institutes
Yale University
The MacMillan Center
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut
REGISTER NOW!!!
PIER-African Studies Summer Institute
July 6-16, 2010
Teaching about Africa is a challenge in the classroom today. Educators
and other professionals face a new and often daunting task of knowing
how to learn or teach about Africa. If you are an educator, curriculum
specialist, librarian, or a business or media professional, “The Teaching of
Africa” will transform your perspective and equip you with ideas and
practical approaches to the teaching and understanding of Africa. This
intensive introductory course in African Studies is designed to help
educators learn about Africa in a way that they can then teach
confidently about its peoples, civilizations, and cultures. The course is also
developed to enable participants to identify and access unique resources
about the continent. The program includes several hands-on cultural and
artistic projects complemented by a full-day field trip to cultural sites in
New York City. Participants are required to attend four Saturday followup
sessions during the fall and spring to transform the summer institute
content into viable classroom materials.
Registration Fee: $350 including texts, materials, and more. Housing, meals and
parking are extra. Fees may be required to cover meals on field trip and special
events. Limited financial assistance is available in the form of post-institute
reimbursement.
Please contact Maxwell Amoh, PIER Director, for more information at 203‐432‐3438;
maxwell.amoh@yale.edu
Sponsored by PIER, the Council on African Studies, the MacMillan Center, and the U.S.
Department of Education through a Title VI NRC grant; and co‐sponsored by the Connecticut
Geographic Alliance.
Housing Information: We encourage all participants, even in‐state participants, to stay in
residence at Yale or local hotel because the Institute is intensive, with daily reading
assignments and evening activities. The residential experience and the camaraderie it fosters
deepen the total Institute experience.
On‐campus Housing and Parking: Participants wishing to stay on campus should contact Yale
Conference Services directly to make their room reservations (and parking arrangements, if
needed) at https://www.regonline.com/pier. Payment must be made using a credit card.
Hotel Choices in New Haven: Participants wishing to stay in a hotel should contact the hotel
directly. For information on area hotels, please visit www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/institutes
Yale University
The MacMillan Center
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut
REGISTER NOW!!!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Will you be doing some international travel this summer? How to get CEUs
Independent Study Abroad 101
Studying and living overseas has valuable benefits for the second language educator:
Cultural benefits:
1. Enhanced cultural awareness
2. Current knowledge of customs, dress, politics, music, travel, economic conditions, etc.
Linguistic benefits:
3. Improved communicative skills: interpretive, interpersonal and/ or presentational
4. Increased vocabulary
5. Awareness of current idioms, quotes, sayings, etc.
6. Improved knowledge of the connection of language to culture and the community
7. Better ability to contrast the US with the country visited
As in life, not everything of value can be documented and accounted for.
8. One should not expect to receive anything close to the amount of CEUs for the amount of time spent in a foreign country.
9. ONE MUST REQUEST APPROVAL OF ANY CEUs TO BE EARNED IN ADVANCE TO BE CERTAIN ONE RECEIVES THE EXPECTED CEUs.
CEUs could be earned from the following methods if submitting an SD 17 Independent Staff Development Activity Application form for Prior Approval. SD 17 can be found at http://staffdev.ucps.k12.nc.us/default.asp?INVUSER Login and choose Course on the left hand side and then Prior Approval. Please refer to the Staff Development Manual in Moodle for details.
10. Documentable events that create a tangible product one can use in teaching.
a. No more than one CEU can be earned from documentable events gained during a time frame of less than 7 full days.
b. No more than two CEUs can be earned from documentable events gained during a time frame of at least 7 full days.
c. No more than three CEUs can be earned from documentable events gained during time frame of at least 15 days.
d. One CEU could be accrued at a rate of 20 event/study hours = 10 contact hours = 1 CEU
11. Tangible products that use information, data, photos, etc., to use in teaching.
a. No more than two CEUs can be earned from tangible products created from time frame of at least 7 full days.
b. No more than three CEUs can be earned from tangible products created from time frame of at least 15 full days.
Maximum CEUs:
3. A maximum of five CEUs can be earned per course/trip from enrollment in Union County’s “Independent Study Abroad 101”.
4. For example, summer 2008 one could enroll in “Independent Study Abroad 101” while traveling/studying abroad in the rainforest of Costa Rica, and in summer 2009 one could enroll in “Independent Study Abroad 101” while traveling/studying abroad in the rain forest of Brazil.
5. For example, summer 2008 one could enroll in “Independent Study Abroad 101” while traveling/studying abroad in the rainforest of Costa Rica, and in December, 2008 one could enroll in “Independent Study Abroad 101” while traveling/studying abroad in the rain forest of Brazil.
Documentable Events: Can be documented with tickets, programs, receipts, menus, brochures, photos that are presented in an electronic or paper format. Electronic format would include scanned objects that are organized and labeled. Paper format would be an organized and labeled scrapbook or notebook. The term “hours” are the units used here in order to measure “documentable events”. 20 “HOURS” SHOULD INCLUDE A MINIMUM OF FOUR DOCUMENTABLE EVENTS.
6. Artistic Events: art museums, cultural museums, dance performances, theatre, cinema, concerts
7. Business / Professions: shadow a worker in a local business; visit a factory or research l (three hour minimum)
8. Historic Knowledge: history walking tours, speeches or tours from historians or museum guides, history museums visits, cemeteries, battlefields, palaces, urban vs. rural life;
9. Medical Encounters: hospital visits or tours, pharmacy visits,
10. Restaurants: Ordering / Cuisine:
11. Shopping : Clothing, food, personal products,
12. Social Events: weddings, political rallies, church services,
13. Sporting Events : Baseball, soccer, basketball, ping pong, bullfighting,
14. Transportation: train, bus, plane within the country, subways, car rental, motorcycle rental, buying gas,
15. University/ School Tours :
16. Homestay
17. Other: Submit other ideas for “Documentable Events” with your request for prior approval for CEUs.
Tangible Products = Quantifiable Results of Overseas Study Recognizing that seat time does not prove knowledge or competence, likewise travel abroad does not prove professional development. To show the relevance of travel to teaching, one should create a product that exemplifies lessons learned from travel. The term “hours” are the units used here in order to measure “Tangible Products”. ANY TOPIC BELOW CONSTITUTES 10 “HOURS”. Ideas include:
18. Create a Power Point of personal photos taken on location in the country of residence of topics of relevant interest to the teacher’s topic of instruction: rivers, mountains, historical monuments, etc. See “Documentable Events”.
19. Create a lesson plan, game, cultural capsule to teach knowledge of the “Documentable Events”.
20. Film or tape conversations, interviews, speeches, plays, live music that can be used in class for the level/s one teaches. See “Documentable Events”.
21. Create an annotated memorabilia display of regalia, souvenirs and memorabilia relevant to the teacher’s topic/s and level/s of instruction worthy of a school 6’ x 6’ display / trophy case. See “Documentable Events”.
22. Maintain a daily diary of notes, facts, reflections and ideas on how to apply the cultural and linguistic observations to teachings
23. Submit other ideas for tangible products with your request for prior approval for CEUs.
Documentable Events and Tangible Products may be combined for coursework “hours” in “Independent Study Abroad 101”.
Frequently Asked Questions:
24. Should a teacher receive credit for study in a country whose second language is not the language that a second language teacher teaches? “Documentable Events” could qualify for CEU credit while “Tangible Products” would not as they are not items that could be directly used in teaching.
25. Do sabbaticals qualify for renewable CEUs? If so, what are the criteria? Yes, if they are meeting the aforementioned requirements.
26. Is there a ceiling for the amount of CEUs per renewal cycle? What if a person were to study / travel abroad every year of a renewal cycle? Would they still be limited to 5 CEUs per renewal cycle as Independent Study? They are not limited to 5, but they should be limited to 5 that counts toward licensure. This means that they would basically be using the remainder of CEUs as a type of curriculum vitae. The 15 total requirements has an unwritten expectation that the credits will come from numerous venues and topics ( i.e. best practices, classroom management, etc.)
27. Do CEUs from “Independent Study Abroad 101” meet the “Content” requirement for second language teachers? (3 CEUs of “content” are required for those due to renew their license beginning in June, 2009). Yes.
CEUs could be earned from the following methods below if submitting an SD 18 Education Program OUTSIDE UCPS/College Coursework-Application for Prior Approval. SD 18 can be found in http://staffdev.ucps.k12.nc.us/default.asp?INVUSER Login and choose Course on the left hand side and then Prior Approval. Please refer to the Staff Development Manual in Moodle for details.
28. Using an SD 18 Form for Prior Approval (completed online):
Formal Classes in an accredited institution that can document hours of instruction could accrue CEUs if an SD 18 form is submitted for prior approval: One hour of class (10 contact hours) is the suggested conversion rate for one hour of CEU.
1. An accredited institution would include universities, language institutes and colleges, cultural centers that can document attendance / contact hours.
2. See existing policy of converting classroom hours to CEUs.
3. CEUs from formal study abroad would be earned at the same rate as CEUs from US universities and colleges. Note: Formal study abroad does not fall into the category of “independent study”.
Research to Cite:
29. US Dept of Education Study on the Internationalization of Teacher Ed Programs
30. Creating Internationally Competitive Schools: Public School Forum’s Study Group XII Dec 2006
CEUs for Domestic Travel
Independent Study-Domestic Travel
Independent Study Domestic Travel 102
Studying and traveling has valuable benefits for the classroom teacher:
As in life, not everything of value can be documented and accounted for.
1. One should not expect to receive anything close to the amount of CEUs for the amount of time spent in travelling.
2. ONE MUST REQUEST APPROVAL OF ANY CEUs TO BE EARNED IN ADVANCE TO BE CERTAIN ONE RECEIVES THE EXPECTED CEUs.
CEUs could be earned from the following methods if submitting an Independent Staff Development Activity Application form for Prior Approval. This form can be found at http://staffdev.ucps.k12.nc.us/default.asp?INVUSER Login and choose Course on the left hand side and then Prior Approval. Please refer to the Staff Development Manual in Moodle for details.
1. Documentable events that create a tangible product one can use in teaching.
1. No more than one CEU can be earned from documentable events gained during a time frame of less than 7 full days.
2. No more than two CEUs can be earned from documentable events gained during a time frame of at least 7 full days.
3. No more than three CEUs can be earned from documentable events gained during time frame of at least 15 days.
4. One CEU could be accrued at a rate of 20 event/study hours = 10 contact hours = 1 CEU
2. Tangible products that use information, data, photos, etc., to use in teaching.
1. No more than two CEUs can be earned from tangible products created from time frame of at least 7 full days.
2. No more than three CEUs can be earned from tangible products created from time frame of at least 15 full days.
Maximum CEUs:
3. A maximum of five CEUs can be earned per course/trip from enrollment in Union County’s “Independent Study-Domestic Travel 102”.
4. For example, summer 2008 one could enroll in “Independent Study-Domestic Travel 102” while traveling/studying abroad the Civil War Battlefields of Pennsylvania. and in summer 2009 one could enroll in “Independent Study-Domestic Travel 102” while traveling/studying the government buildings of Washington, DC.
Documentable Events: Can be documented with tickets, programs, receipts, menus, brochures, photos that are presented in an electronic or paper format. Electronic format would include scanned objects that are organized and labeled. Paper format would be an organized and labeled scrapbook or notebook. The term “hours” are the units used here in order to measure “documentable events”. 20 “HOURS” SHOULD INCLUDE A MINIMUM OF FOUR DOCUMENTABLE EVENTS.
5. Artistic Events: art museums, cultural museums, dance performances, theatre, cinema, concerts
6. Business / Professions: shadow a worker in a local business; visit a factory or research l (three hour minimum)
7. Historic Knowledge: history walking tours, speeches or tours from historians or museum guides, history museums visits, cemeteries, battlefields, palaces, urban vs. rural life;
8. Social Events: weddings, political rallies, church services,
9. University/ School Tours :
10. Other: Submit other ideas for “Documentable Events” with your request for prior approval for CEUs.
Tangible Products = Quantifiable Results of Domestic Study Recognizing that seat time does not prove knowledge or competence, likewise domestic travel does not prove professional development. To show the relevance of travel to teaching, one should create a product that exemplifies lessons learned from travel. The term “hours” are the units used here in order to measure “Tangible Products”. ANY TOPIC BELOW CONSTITUTES 10 “HOURS”. Ideas include:
11. Create a Power Point of personal photos taken on location in the location of topics of relevant interest to the teacher’s topic of instruction: rivers, mountains, historical monuments, etc. See “Documentable Events”.
12. Create a lesson plan, game, content capsule to teach knowledge of the “Documentable Events”.
13. Film or tape conversations, interviews, speeches, plays, live music that can be used in class for the level/s one teaches. See “Documentable Events”.
14. Create an annotated memorabilia display of regalia, souvenirs and memorabilia relevant to the teacher’s topic/s and level/s of instruction worthy of a school 6’ x 6’ display / trophy case. See “Documentable Events”.
15. Maintain a daily diary of notes, facts, reflections and ideas on how to apply the observations to teachings
16. Submit other ideas for tangible products with your request for prior approval for CEUs.
Documentable Events and Tangible Products may be combined for coursework “hours” in “Independent Study-Domestic Travel 102”.
Frequently Asked Questions:
17. Do sabbaticals qualify for renewable CEUs? If so, what are the criteria? Yes, if they are meeting the aforementioned requirements.
18. Is there a ceiling for the amount of CEUs per renewal cycle? What if a person were to study / travel every year of a renewal cycle? Would they still be limited to 5 CEUs per renewal cycle as Independent Study? They are not limited to 5, but they should be limited to 5 that counts toward licensure. This means that they would basically be using the remainder of CEUs as a type of curriculum vitae. The 15 total requirements has an unwritten expectation that the credits will come from numerous venues and topics ( i.e. best practices, classroom management, etc.)
19. Do CEUs from “Independent Study-Domestic Travel 102” meet the “Content” requirement for second language teachers? (3 CEUs of “content” are required for those due to renew their license beginning in June, 2009). Yes.
CEUs could be earned from the following methods below if submitting an Education Program OUTSIDE UCPS/College Coursework-Application for Prior Approval. This form can be found in http://staffdev.ucps.k12.nc.us/default.asp?INVUSER Login and choose Course on the left hand side and then Prior Approval. Please refer to the Staff Development Manual in Moodle for details.
Independent Study Domestic Travel 102
Studying and traveling has valuable benefits for the classroom teacher:
As in life, not everything of value can be documented and accounted for.
1. One should not expect to receive anything close to the amount of CEUs for the amount of time spent in travelling.
2. ONE MUST REQUEST APPROVAL OF ANY CEUs TO BE EARNED IN ADVANCE TO BE CERTAIN ONE RECEIVES THE EXPECTED CEUs.
CEUs could be earned from the following methods if submitting an Independent Staff Development Activity Application form for Prior Approval. This form can be found at http://staffdev.ucps.k12.nc.us/default.asp?INVUSER Login and choose Course on the left hand side and then Prior Approval. Please refer to the Staff Development Manual in Moodle for details.
1. Documentable events that create a tangible product one can use in teaching.
1. No more than one CEU can be earned from documentable events gained during a time frame of less than 7 full days.
2. No more than two CEUs can be earned from documentable events gained during a time frame of at least 7 full days.
3. No more than three CEUs can be earned from documentable events gained during time frame of at least 15 days.
4. One CEU could be accrued at a rate of 20 event/study hours = 10 contact hours = 1 CEU
2. Tangible products that use information, data, photos, etc., to use in teaching.
1. No more than two CEUs can be earned from tangible products created from time frame of at least 7 full days.
2. No more than three CEUs can be earned from tangible products created from time frame of at least 15 full days.
Maximum CEUs:
3. A maximum of five CEUs can be earned per course/trip from enrollment in Union County’s “Independent Study-Domestic Travel 102”.
4. For example, summer 2008 one could enroll in “Independent Study-Domestic Travel 102” while traveling/studying abroad the Civil War Battlefields of Pennsylvania. and in summer 2009 one could enroll in “Independent Study-Domestic Travel 102” while traveling/studying the government buildings of Washington, DC.
Documentable Events: Can be documented with tickets, programs, receipts, menus, brochures, photos that are presented in an electronic or paper format. Electronic format would include scanned objects that are organized and labeled. Paper format would be an organized and labeled scrapbook or notebook. The term “hours” are the units used here in order to measure “documentable events”. 20 “HOURS” SHOULD INCLUDE A MINIMUM OF FOUR DOCUMENTABLE EVENTS.
5. Artistic Events: art museums, cultural museums, dance performances, theatre, cinema, concerts
6. Business / Professions: shadow a worker in a local business; visit a factory or research l (three hour minimum)
7. Historic Knowledge: history walking tours, speeches or tours from historians or museum guides, history museums visits, cemeteries, battlefields, palaces, urban vs. rural life;
8. Social Events: weddings, political rallies, church services,
9. University/ School Tours :
10. Other: Submit other ideas for “Documentable Events” with your request for prior approval for CEUs.
Tangible Products = Quantifiable Results of Domestic Study Recognizing that seat time does not prove knowledge or competence, likewise domestic travel does not prove professional development. To show the relevance of travel to teaching, one should create a product that exemplifies lessons learned from travel. The term “hours” are the units used here in order to measure “Tangible Products”. ANY TOPIC BELOW CONSTITUTES 10 “HOURS”. Ideas include:
11. Create a Power Point of personal photos taken on location in the location of topics of relevant interest to the teacher’s topic of instruction: rivers, mountains, historical monuments, etc. See “Documentable Events”.
12. Create a lesson plan, game, content capsule to teach knowledge of the “Documentable Events”.
13. Film or tape conversations, interviews, speeches, plays, live music that can be used in class for the level/s one teaches. See “Documentable Events”.
14. Create an annotated memorabilia display of regalia, souvenirs and memorabilia relevant to the teacher’s topic/s and level/s of instruction worthy of a school 6’ x 6’ display / trophy case. See “Documentable Events”.
15. Maintain a daily diary of notes, facts, reflections and ideas on how to apply the observations to teachings
16. Submit other ideas for tangible products with your request for prior approval for CEUs.
Documentable Events and Tangible Products may be combined for coursework “hours” in “Independent Study-Domestic Travel 102”.
Frequently Asked Questions:
17. Do sabbaticals qualify for renewable CEUs? If so, what are the criteria? Yes, if they are meeting the aforementioned requirements.
18. Is there a ceiling for the amount of CEUs per renewal cycle? What if a person were to study / travel every year of a renewal cycle? Would they still be limited to 5 CEUs per renewal cycle as Independent Study? They are not limited to 5, but they should be limited to 5 that counts toward licensure. This means that they would basically be using the remainder of CEUs as a type of curriculum vitae. The 15 total requirements has an unwritten expectation that the credits will come from numerous venues and topics ( i.e. best practices, classroom management, etc.)
19. Do CEUs from “Independent Study-Domestic Travel 102” meet the “Content” requirement for second language teachers? (3 CEUs of “content” are required for those due to renew their license beginning in June, 2009). Yes.
CEUs could be earned from the following methods below if submitting an Education Program OUTSIDE UCPS/College Coursework-Application for Prior Approval. This form can be found in http://staffdev.ucps.k12.nc.us/default.asp?INVUSER Login and choose Course on the left hand side and then Prior Approval. Please refer to the Staff Development Manual in Moodle for details.
Facilitative Leadership July 26-29, 2010
All administrators in Union County must take Facilitative Leadership. This course is typically offered annually. It will next be offered on July 26-29, 2010 at the Professional Development Center. There will be a registration limit of 20 in the class. Contact Sheila Chaney for details and register in the Staff Development Manager.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Global Exploration for Educators...travel for educators
Hello Educators,
I am writing to this listserv to share information about Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO), a 501c3 non-profit organization that helps and encourages educators to travel abroad. If possible, please share this information with your colleagues.
GEEO is now taking reservations for summer travel programs to India, Peru, Tunisia, Southern Africa (South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe) and China.
Educators can earn graduate school credit and professional development credit while seeing the world. The trips are designed for teachers, include school visits and are deeply discounted so as to be affordable to teachers.
GEEO also helps teachers find funding to subsidize the cost of the trips. The trips are open to K-12 and University educators and administrators. Educators are also permitted to bring along a non-educator guest.
Detailed information about each trip, including itineraries, costs, travel dates, and more can be found at www.geeo.org. GEEO can also be reached 7 days a week, toll free at 1-877-600-0105 between 9AM-10PM EST. To sign-up for GEEO's listserv, please send an email to listserv@geeo.org with the subject line "subscribe."
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Jesse Weisz
President and Founder
Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO)
Toll-free: 1-877-600-0105
jesse@geeo.org
www.geeo.org
I am writing to this listserv to share information about Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO), a 501c3 non-profit organization that helps and encourages educators to travel abroad. If possible, please share this information with your colleagues.
GEEO is now taking reservations for summer travel programs to India, Peru, Tunisia, Southern Africa (South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe) and China.
Educators can earn graduate school credit and professional development credit while seeing the world. The trips are designed for teachers, include school visits and are deeply discounted so as to be affordable to teachers.
GEEO also helps teachers find funding to subsidize the cost of the trips. The trips are open to K-12 and University educators and administrators. Educators are also permitted to bring along a non-educator guest.
Detailed information about each trip, including itineraries, costs, travel dates, and more can be found at www.geeo.org. GEEO can also be reached 7 days a week, toll free at 1-877-600-0105 between 9AM-10PM EST. To sign-up for GEEO's listserv, please send an email to listserv@geeo.org with the subject line "subscribe."
--
Jesse Weisz
President and Founder
Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO)
Toll-free: 1-877-600-0105
jesse@geeo.org
www.geeo.org
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Webinar "Formative and Diagnostic Assessment Approaches in Mat and Science"
Attached http://bit.ly/dhD5hq you will find information about a free three-part Webinar series entitled, Formative and Diagnostic Assessment Approaches in Mathematics and Science and the Implications for Classroom Teachers. The purpose of this Webinar series is to help educators understand the emerging national research in mathematics and science formative assessment and diagnostic assessment and to help educators see the implications for teachers and students. Participants will learn about how North Carolina is participating in this research, and free resources available to help improve student learning through formative and/or diagnostic assessment will be demonstrated. SERVE, Inc. has partnered with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to provide the series as part of the Accountability and Curriculum Reform Effort (ACRE). The dates of the three Webinars in the series are March 10, March 22, and April 13. To register for one or more of the Webinars in the series, click on this link, https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/826130339. You may also forward this information to state, district, or school staff that you think will be interested.
Susan Auton
Executive Assistant
Academic Services &
Instructional Support
Phone: 919-807-3435
Fax: 919-807-4065
sauton@dpi.state.nc.us
Susan Auton
Executive Assistant
Academic Services &
Instructional Support
Phone: 919-807-3435
Fax: 919-807-4065
sauton@dpi.state.nc.us
Middle School Reading Strategies Online Workshop
Ronda Baker, Middle School Language Arts Curriculum Coordinator, will be teaching an online Reading Strategies workshop beginning next week. The workshop will require one face to face meeting before the online portion of the class begins. Please pass this email along to your faculty and staff. Information for this workshop is below.
Staff Development Registration:
Content Area Reading for Middle School
http://staffdev.ucps.k12.nc.us/instructors/rosters.php?section_id=691
Moodle Page:
http://moodle.ucps.k12.nc.us/course/view.php?id=5618
Book Information:
http://www.heinemann.com/products/E00595.aspx
Kick off Date: March 9, 2010
Course Description:
This an online book study based on the professional book, Subjects Matter, Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading. The book includes information about content-area reading that's just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas. The focus of this book study will include how to implement the instructional strategies presented into the middle school content area classroom.
The requirements for one reading renewal credit include:
• One face-to-face meeting with instructor
• Complete all readings and assignments
• Submit all work to instructor
Staff Development Registration:
Content Area Reading for Middle School
http://staffdev.ucps.k12.nc.us/instructors/rosters.php?section_id=691
Moodle Page:
http://moodle.ucps.k12.nc.us/course/view.php?id=5618
Book Information:
http://www.heinemann.com/products/E00595.aspx
Kick off Date: March 9, 2010
Course Description:
This an online book study based on the professional book, Subjects Matter, Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading. The book includes information about content-area reading that's just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas. The focus of this book study will include how to implement the instructional strategies presented into the middle school content area classroom.
The requirements for one reading renewal credit include:
• One face-to-face meeting with instructor
• Complete all readings and assignments
• Submit all work to instructor
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