The GLOBE Teacher Training
Gallaudet University &  the Laurent Clerc  National Deaf Education Center Presents the 9th Annual GLOBE Teacher Training 

When:  Monday- Friday,  July 26-30

The workshop will train science and math teachers for the Deaf to do GLOBE measurements with their students. Past participants are welcomed!  Come and refresh your skills. 

The cost for the training workshop is $100 per teacher. Teams of teachers are encouraged to attend together.

Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc will provide food and housing for all participating teachers.  Funding is provided by the D.C. Space Grant Consortium.    We will provide a GLOBE equipment kit to each program for the deaf sending a participating teacher.  ($400 value). 

SOAR-HIGH Workshop

When: Monday-Saturday,  August 2-7

The workshop materials will be targeted for teachers of high school students.  Teachers will learn strategies used in the SOAR-HIGH Project.

Teachers will learn to involve students in:
           * Atmosphere studies
           * Hydrosphere activities
           * Geosphere research

Fees for the workshop are fully supported by a grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation.
Teachers that  participate in the workshop will receive dormitory rooms and board on the campus of Gallaudet University. 

Geological Engineer Dr. Michele Cook will be share her expertise in earthquake and fault modeling.

Dr. Harry Lang at NTID, Rochester Institute of Technology,  is looking for high school science teachers who are willing to do an online survey related to signs in science.  Dr. Lang needs at least 20  teachers who have experience with sign language AND have degree(s) in science.  The task involves looking at sign movies on the web and rating how willing you are to adopt and use those signs.

Dr. Lang comments "I look forward to finding at least 20  teachers interested in the topic who will be willing to help out." 

If you are interested, please contact Dr. Lang directly by email at  hgl9008@rit.edu  He will then provide more details about how to complete the survey. 

Students Present Class Research at 2003 GLOBE Expedition to Croatia

Science classes at Model Secondary  School for the Deaf and Indiana School for the Deaf collaborated on a study of fall changes in leaves.   Four students were then selected to submit the report from their class research to GLOBE.  As a result, Kristen Suiter and Rachel Burton from MSSD and Amanda Krieger and 
 Bethany Shelly from ISD won the honor of presenting their research results at the 2003 GLOBE Learning Expedition to Croatia. The four students and their teachers spent a week attending the GLOBE GLE conference at the  beautiful Solaris resort in Sibenik.  GLOBE Teacher/Trainer Mary  Ellsworth and Gallaudet GLOBE trained teacher Teresa Huckleberry  (ISD) reported that their students made an excellent  presentation to an international  audience of students, teachers,  and scientists from 24 different countries. 

Read the MSSD/ISD research report  here. 
GLE Conference daily reports and photo gallery here..

Have you benefited from an NSF supported teacher workshop,  summer institute, or grant program?  Your help is urgently needed to preserve NSF's funding for the many NSF math and science  programs that directly benefit both teachers and students.

Support Math and Science Partnership Programs at NSF & DoEd

The President's budget request proposes drastic changes in the Math and Science Partnerships (MSP) Programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Education (DoEd).    Funding for new, competitive partnerships would be eliminated at NSF.  In DoEd's MSP program, a significant portion of funding would be set aside for a focus on high school mathematics -- denying educators needed flexibility in addressing urgent problems in both math and science education.

The budget process has just begun, so we can make a huge difference by speaking up now.    Your input, and that of others can encourage our leaders to propose a more responsible approach to funding these programs.

If this issue is of concern to you,  tell your members of Congress to preserve the science focus of the Math and Science Partnership programs.  Link to http://capwiz.com/chemical, and click on "Support Math and Science  Partnership Programs." 

Also read the National Science Teacher Association's position on this issue. 

Thank you for your help in this critical effort.