Summer = Professional Development for Area Educators
When public schools close their doors for the summer, classroom teachers get a chance for some hands-on professional development by participating in Teacher Quality Grants.
This year just 28 of the 62 Teacher Quality Grants were funded. Funding comes through the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia from the U.S. Department of Education as part of the "No Child Left Behind Act." The grants specifically aim at strengthening and deepening teachers' content knowledge in their academic subject areas with emphasis on how this new knowledge affects teaching practices and student learning.
Two of the 28 funded grants went to COE. "Blue Bloods and Red Knots of Sapelo Island: An Inquiry into Interdependence," is a renewal of a previously
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Last year's TQ grant participants pose with a poster on their research.
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funded grant that targets middle and high school level public school science teachers in the area of ecological inquiry and earth science. The object of the inquiry is the interdependence of Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs and the migratory Red Knot shorebird of Sapelo Island, Georgia. Teachers will learn to create guided inquiry lessons for their own classrooms. The week-long summer science course -- with a spring preview and post course review by grant faculty -- also targets Common Core Georgia Performance Standards. Faculty leading the grant include Professor Missy Bennett, Instructor Heather Scott and Associate Professor Yasar Bodur, all from the Department of Teaching and Learning, and Professor Fred Rich, Department of Geology.
COE Dean Thomas Koballa and Dr. Mare Timmons, UGA Marine Extension Service, were awarded a grant, "The Georgia Shore Program," a STEM
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The Marine Education Center and Aquarium main building on Skidaway Island, Savannah, Georgia.
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(science, technology, engineering and mathematics) based grant. The project provides up to 16 K-12 teachers with an in-depth study of marine and environmental sciences and cross disciplinary subjects during a two-week summer residential program on Skidaway Island, Georgia.
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