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 2009-10 Workshops :
Click here for dates and descriptions.
- Make plans to attend your local science teachers' professional organization (OSTA) conference, to be held this year at UCO on November 7.
- NABT national conference is in Denver, November 11-14, 2009.
- NSTA has regional conferences in Minneapolis, Fort Lauderdale and Phoenix in the fall, and 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.
- 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. Check out:
Inside Cancer - one-day workshop introducing their innovative website on cancer biology, offered multiple locations.
Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online.
Dynamic Gene Workshop in Gene Annotation - 1.5 day workshop on gene structure and function.
Further information, including online applications and downloadable brochures are available at http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/teacher_training/
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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
January 2009
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