Opportunities

TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

EARTHLABS: Confronting the Challenges of Climate Literacy
A Summer Workshop for High School Teachers

Monday June 11 – Friday June 15, 2012

Understanding the complexity and interconnectedness of Earth’s natural cycles across various time and spatial scales has become increasingly important as the effects of human activity on those cycles become more apparent. Join us for a week at The University of Texas at Austin to learn about three new high school curriculum units* that address these topics and how you can incorporate them into your science classes. The new Web-based curriculum units on Weather and Climate, Earth's Cryosphere, and Carbon will be freely available to you and are designed to enhance classroom learning by allowing students to explore the topics in a variety of modes, including hands-on activities, video interviews with scientists, group work, self-guided examination of scientific data, and class discussions. Find out more...

TEACHER INTERNSHIPS

Deep Earth Academy supports an educator to work at Ocean Leadership in Washington DC to develop ocean science curricula, produce teacher-training workshops, maintain communication within a community of educators, and assist with conference logistics.  The fellowship is for one year.  For more information, please contact Sharon Cooper:scooper@oceanleadership.org 

Planning a professional development workshop for your district or other event?
Contact us about partnering with TXESS Revolution-trained master teachers and science education specialists to deliver content. See some of our recent examples of professional development partnerships listed below:

TXESS Revolution and STORE  at the Florida Association of Science Teachers Association (FAST) 2011 Conference.

TXESS Revolution and STORE at the TXESS Revolution Summer Institute 2011 "Energy, Climate and Water in the 21st Century.