Home › Opportunities

Professional Development

  • Biology Teachers: Since 1990 Save The Rainforest (STR, a non-profit organization)

    has been sending groups of high school and middle school students to the rainforest reserves it helped create with donations from school children.
    Many of the biology teachers who have led these groups are retiring and STR is looking for a new generation of biology teachers to take their students on field courses to the Galapagos, Amazon, Costa Rica, Belize, Panama and Mexico.
    For more information on how to take a group of students to the tropics contact Bruce Calhoun at 608-729-4877 or saverfn@cybermesa.com, or view STR’s website at www.saverfn.org.

  • The Hach Chemical Foundation is offering high school chemistry teachers grants of up to $1500 to improve their classroom.

    Applications are due by May 31 and awards for the next school year will be announced by July 1, 2008.
    The application and proposal can be one page each and you must state how you will measure your project’s success.
    The same foundation is offering $6000 annual academic scholarships for experienced chemists to secure teaching credentials and become "second career" chemistry teachers.
    For details and application forms, go to www.hachscientificfoundation.org/outreach.html

  • University of Kentucky Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Online Physics Courses

    for Grades 4-9 Teachers. Learn physics at your location and schedule.
    Up to 1 graduate credit or 30 cpdu-s.
    For more information, go to www.pa.uky.edu/sciworks/intro.htm or contact Sally Shafer, Director, Science Works Program - shafer@pa.uky.edu.

  • Environmental Education Online Courses.

    June 2 to August 22, September 8 to December 5.
    Up to 3 graduate credits.
    UW Stevens Point, Environmental Education & Training Partnership, and US Fish and Wildlife Service sponsorship.
    Contact Angela.Lemar@uwsp.edu or go to www.eetap.org

  • Four special summer symposia opportunities: Technologies That Extend Learning in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering.

    July 28 through August 12, 2008.
    Rapid technological innovation will be explored and teachers will share ideas on what works in the classroom. You may choose to attend multiple symposia, if you are interested and available.
    Details on the sessions, including the stipends and arrangements for travel are posted on the IMSP-Symposium pages and any updates will be forwarded directly to each registrant from the Site Directors.
    • July 28-29. Chicago, De Paul University. The Frontiers of Green Technology.
    • August 4-5. Lincoln Land Community College in Litchfield. Emerging energy technologies (like ethanol and more!).
    • August 5-6. UI Champaign. Nanotechnology and other industrial applications.
    • August 11-12. Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The Perseids Meteor Showers, with a special session on the latest technologies and space science research.
    REGISTER at http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/surveyor/?sid=3
    For more information, contact Dr. Marylin Lisowski:
    mlisowski@eiu.edu
    1528 Hazlett Road
    Pittsburgh, PA 15237
    412-548-3448.

  • Lake Michigan Exploration Workshop for 4th – 10th Grade Teachers.

    August 2-8.
    Includes field tours in Chicago, Milwaukee and Indiana Dunes.
    Sponsors: Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence—Great Lakes, Great Lakes Sea Grant Network, NSF, NOAA.
    April 18 deadline for applications.
    For more information contact Terri Hallesy, thallesy@uiuc.edu, 217-244-8809, or go to www.coseegreatlakes.net/events/lakemichigan

  • Educators’ Tour to China.

    July 15-29, 2009.
    Chinese American Cultural Bridge Center, Arlington Heights, IL.
    Est. $3850/person double occupancy include lodging, travel, food.
    50 cpdu’s available.
    Info at www.cacbc.org.
    Contact Jennifer at travelstudychina@gmail.com or phone 847-902-7229.

Past Events