Gallaudet University and  Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center Announce the 11th Annual GLOBE Teacher Training    Monday- Friday,  July 26 - 30, 2006

Gallaudet University and the Laurent Clerc Center invite science and math teachers to a GLOBE Teacher Training to be held on the Gallaudet campus July 26-30, 2006.  The training will be conducted by GLOBE trainers H. David Snyder, Ph.D., and Mary S. Ellsworth, with assistance from Izolda Trakhtenberg,  GLOBE Soils Science Educator, 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 60 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  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 $125 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 dormitory housing and certain meals for participating teachers of the deaf through funds from the D.C. Space Grant Consortium.  Again this year we hope to be able to provide GLOBE equipment kits to programs for the deaf sending a participating teacher (aprox. $400 value, while supply lasts).

For workshop information and online registration:  Laurent Clerc Center Summer Institute http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/tpd/summer-institute/globe.html Or contact  Ms. Patricia Dabney Office of Training and Professional Development Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center 202-651-5855 (V/TDD) ----------------------------------------------------------- Find more information at these Web sites:

Gallaudet University 800 Florida Ave., N.E. Washington, DC 20002-3695 202-651-5855 (V/TTY), 202-651-5857 (fax) Email: Patricia.Dabney@Gallaudet.edu

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