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Partnership
with Southern New Jersey Educational Technology Training Centers
This
program, a collaboration among Southern New Jersey ETTCs
and Stevens
Institute of Technology,
is sponsored
by the
NJ Statewide
Systemic Initiative and the Participating Organizations
The Stevens
K-12 Partnership, promotes the meaningful integration of Internet based
resources into the K-12 curriculum in science, mathematics, and other disciplines.
This program emphasizes unique and compelling applications of the Internet
that engage students in authentic science investigations, analysis of real
world, "real time" data collected via global telecollaboration or through
dynamic databases maintained by major scientific and governmental agencies
such as NASA, NOAA, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Lesson activities
provide students with opportunities to collaborate with real scientists
and researchers and with other school children worldwide and to collect,
analyze, and make predictions with data. Curriculum materials are
aligned with and promote the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards
in science and mathematics.
This partnership
among Stevens Institute's Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education
(CIESE) and five Southern New Jersey Educational Technology Training Centers
(located in Cape May, Atlantic, Cumberland, Salem, Camden Counties) is
an abbreviated version of the highly successful Stevens K-12 Partnership,
a 78 hour professional development initiative that provides teachers with
opportunities to explore in-depth curriculum materials relevant for their
own classroom needs and to serve as staff development resources for their
own schools and districts. With funding from the NJ Statewide Systemic
Initiative, this 36 hour series of workshops is the backbone of the more
comprehensive package. Because the Stevens K-12 Partnership has only
been offered previously in Northern and Central New Jersey (in Hoboken
and North Brunswick), Southern New Jersey educators have not had the opportunity
to participate.
1999-2000
Southern New Jersey ETTC Collaboration Sponsored by NJSSI
October
1999 - Alloway School District In-service Training for High School Math
and Science Teachers
For more information,
contact Beth McGrath, CIESE Deputy Director at bmcgrath@stevens-tech.edu
or (201) 216-5037.
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