Professional
Development Opportunities
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BBDiscovery has worked with more than 160 teachers
and thousands of students across Oklahoma, through
professional development workshops, classroom
visits, and laboratory loaner kits.
If you would like to schedule a professional
development workshop for your teacher group to become more familiar with
our activities, labs and equipment, please email
DeAnn Campbell dacampbell@occc.edu or Charlotte Mulvihill, cmulvihill@occc.edu. |
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BBDiscovery Project 2010 Workshops :
Click here for dates and descriptions.
- NSTA has its national conference in Philadelphia March 18-21, 2010. Click here for details.
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Toyota Tapestry Grant for Science Teachers - deadline this year January 18, 2010. Grants large and small.
Toyota also announces that the application for the 2010 Toyota International Teacher Program to Costa Rica is now available online. Fully funded by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and administered by the Institute of International Education, this professional development opportunity for educators aims to advance environmental stewardship and global connectedness in U.S. schools and communities.
The program will take place June 18 - July 3, 2010 and the deadline to apply is January 6, 2010. Please visit www.toyota4education.com for eligibility requirements, application instructions, and FAQs. Please feel free to forward this information along to your colleagues as we value diversity and encourage educators of all subjects and school types to apply for this unique opportunity.
- The Fund for Teachers enriches the personal and professional growth of teachers by recognizing and supporting them as they identify and pursue opportunities around the world that will have the greatest impact on their practice, the academic lives of their students, and their school communities. The Fund for Teachers provides grants directly to teachers, supporting their professional learning. Through the teachers' unique experiences, they ultimately will inspire students to learn.
Size of Grant - $5,000 for individuals, $10,000 for teams
Cost Sharing or Match – No
Web - http://www.fundforteachers.org
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation offers summer foundation scholars program for teachers; go here for details.
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's DNA Learning Center (www.dnalc.org) has a great
lineup of long and short workshops for teachers located all around the nation.
COMING TO OCCC IN MARCH! Come to one or both:
Inside Cancer - one-day workshop introducing their innovative website on cancer biology, offered multiple locations.
Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online.This 1-day workshop introduces educators to up-to-date neuroscience research using interactive, web-based experiments.
Further information, including online applications and downloadable brochures are available at http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/teacher_training/
- Online Teacher Professional Development Course starting April 2010 from the American Physiological Society. Participants will explore, apply and reflect on Six Star Science, a research-based framework for supporting excellence in science education. Apply by February 1, 2010. Details at www.frontiersinphys.org.
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Oklahoma City Community
College Biotechnology Program
Dr. Charlotte Mulvihill, Director of Advanced Technology Education
7777 S. May Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73159-4444
(405) 682-1611, ext 7225
Comments: CMulvihill@occc.edu
Copyright
2002 Oklahoma City Community College
Updated
November 2009
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