[NMScience] FW: Environmental Science Opportunity

[Ellen Loehman]

From: Megan Mitterer [mailto:megan.mitterer at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:58 PM
To: webeditor at nmsta.org
Subject: Environmental Science Opportunity


Hello! My name is Megan Mitterer. I work for Northwestern University. We
have an exciting new professional development opportunity for
Environmental Science teachers. Could you please post the following
information either on your website, in your newsletter, or over your
listserv? Could you also inform me if and when the information is
posted? Thank you! 

Sincerely,
Megan Mitterer

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Is your school thinking about offering environmental science for the
first time or switching to a new environmental science program in the
next two years? If so, then you may be interested in an opportunity for
free professional development for environmental science teachers.

The GEODE Initiative at Northwestern University is pleased to offer a
free professional development opportunity to a limited number of high
school environmental science teachers. This opportunity is available to
schools that adopt Investigations in Environmental Science, a new
inquiry-based environmental science textbook, and will be implementing
it for the first time in 2008-09. The professional development is being
offered as part of a research study on professional development
sponsored by the National Science Foundation and led by researchers at
the University of Michigan.

The study is investigating the relative benefits of face-to-face and
online professional development, and teachers selected to participate
will be assigned at random to groups receiving different portions of the
professional development in a face-to-face summer workshop and online
throughout the year.

Teachers selected for the study will receive 48 hours of professional
development (valued at $2000) and a stipend at the completion of each year
of the study (total of $1500 over two years). Accepted teachers and their
principals must have purchased (or commit to purchasing) the instructional
materials, must commit to participating fully in the summer and academic
year professional development workshops, and must commit to participating in
the study, including classroom data collection, for two years.

Some other advantages for teachers who are selected for this
professional development opportunity:

* Receive direct access to the developers of the curriculum, both
face-to-face and online.

* The developers of the curriculum designed and are running the
professional development.

* Participate in a collaborative learning environment with other
Teachers around the country also learning to use the Investigations in
Environmental Science curriculum.

Investigations in Environmental Science: a Case-Based Approach to
Environmental Systems is a research-based, case-based, inquiry high school
environmental science course that was developed by Northwestern University
with the support of the National Science Foundation.

* For more information about this opportunity, visit:
http://www.geode.northwestern.edu/investigations/

* Or contact: Beth Kubitskey, Eastern Michigan University: 734-487-8798
Or e-mail iopd-info at umich.edu

* For information about purchasing Investigations in Environmental
Science, contact Its About Time Publishers at
http://www.its-about-time.com/htmls/investines/inves.html or (888)
698-8463.