Math & Science Graduate Fellows in K-12 Education

Academic Year 2009-2010
Summer Institute and Academic Year Seminar Schedules:

Summer Institute 2009 - August 3-4 for teachers & fellows, August 5-7 fellows only

• Monday, August 3rd, the GK-12 teachers and fellows will join forces to get to know each other and the UMD faculty and staff involved in the GK-12 program. They will also get oriented to the GK-12 program, their roles and responsibilities and explore for themselves ideas for incorporating research and inquiry-based learning in their upcoming academic year.
• Tuesday, August 4th, teacher & fellows will be planning their upcoming academic year by clarifying their roles and responsibilities in the schools and to each other as a team; planning thier weekly schedules; identifying the key units they want to work on developing inquiry components for in the coming year; and identifying their action research topic for the year. In the afternoon, teacher fellow teams will tour their respective schools.
• Wednesday, August 5th, fellows will be introduced to ePortfolio, the online tool we will use for many functions throughout the fellowship. They will also discuss how to create a safe working and learning environment for themsleves and their students and dealing with issues of diversity in the classroom.
• Thursday, August 6th, fellows will spend the day workign closely with project manager, Kevin Zak, to discuss how to develop and write lesson plans and further discuss the activities they should expect to be involved in throughout their fellowship.
• Friday, August 7th, fellows will explore student learning styles, discuss how they may affect studnet learning, teaching methods and the fellows experience in the classroom. In the afternoon, past fellows will join us to describe their experiences as GK-12 fellows and answer questions for the incoming fellows.

Teacher and Fellow seminars 2009-2010

Throughout the year, we will host a series of seminars with the GK-12 teachers and fellows to allow to sharing of ideas, challenges and solutions and as a way to provide additional support for the academic year activities. Specific topics may announced for some seminars, but these will largely be for sharing progress and ideas among the teacher fellow teams; and to provide fellows opportunties for group question and answer on various aspects of their work as a fellow.

Fellows seminars will be held on Mondays from 8-9:00am in Solon Campus Center, room 130.
The dates include:

• September 14
• October 12
• November 9
• January 25th - updating your CV's
• February 8
• March 8
• April 12

Teacher and Fellow seminars will be on Wednesdays in Solon Campus Center, room 130, from 4:00-6:00 PM (food will be served).
The dates include:

• October 21 - team check in's and sharing
• February 3 - team check in's and discussion of "Teaching Evolution in the Classroom"
• March, date to be determined (optional) - Panel discussion with successful minority                                                             students in science and math at UMD
• April 14
• May 26

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