Gallaudet University and the Clerc Center
Announce the 8th Annual
GLOBE Teacher Training Workshop
Monday-Friday,  July 14-18, 2003

Gallaudet University and the Laurent Clerc Center invite science and math teachers to a GLOBE Teacher Training Workshop to be held on the Gallaudet campus July 14-18, 2003.  The workshop will be taught by GLOBE trainers H. David Snyder, Ph.D., and Mary S. Ellsworth, with assistance from the esteemed Dr. Elissa Levine,  GLOBE Scientist and Soils Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

The GLOBE Program is a hands-on environmental science and education program that unites students, educators, and scientists from around the world in studying the global environment.

The workshop will train teachers of the deaf to do the GLOBE measurements with their students, use GLOBE images in the classroom, integrate science activities from the GLOBE on-line curriculum, and create partnerships among students at GLOBE schools around the world.

Teachers of the Deaf from more than 50 schools have trained at Gallaudet. Over 10,000 schools in more than 95 countries are participating in the GLOBE Program.

What do GLOBE students do?  GLOBE students....

•  make a core set of environmental observations at or near their school,
•  report their data via the Internet to a GLOBE data processing facility,
•  learn to use global images created from worldwide GLOBE school data, and
•  study environmental topics in their classrooms.
•  reported over one million science observations (atmosphere, hydrology, land cover, and soils.)

The cost for the 4.5-day training workshop is $100 per teacher. Teams of teachers are encouraged to attend together. Past participants are welcome to attend a second time and refresh their skills.  The Gallaudet University/Clerc Center GLOBE Teacher Training Center provides food and housing for participating teachers of the deaf through funds from the D.C. Space Grant Consortium.  Again this year we will provide GLOBE equipment kits to programs for the deaf sending a participating teacher (aprox. $400 value).
For workshop information:  Print and mail a registration form. Contact Ms. Patricia Dabney Office of Training and Professional Development Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center 800 Florida Ave., N.E.  Washington, DC 20002-3695  202-651-5855 (V/TTY),  202-651-5857 (fax)  Email: Patricia.Dabney@Gallaudet.edu

Find more information at these Web sites:
 The GLOBE Program
 http://www.globe.gov

 Gallaudet and Clerc Center GLOBE Training Center
 http://sci.gallaudet.edu/GLOBE/

 Article in Clerc Center's Preview Magazine (ceased publication)
 http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/products/preview/fall98/global.html

Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/