MiTEP Teachers Present Posters at GSA
Description
The Michigan Institute for Teacher Excellence Program (MiTEP) is a multifaceted professional development program designed to elevate the content knowledge and pedagogy skills of teachers with limited Earth science training. On October 9-12, 2011, MiTEP members presented fourteen posters at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. The posters showcased teachers' field experiences at national parks, and described how they brought these experiences back to their classrooms to engage students in Earth science.Follow the links below to read poster summaries.
- Implementing Long-Term Professional Develop for Urban Earth Science Teachers, Insights from the Michigan Institute For Teacher Excellence Program
- Discussion of a Keweenaw Geopark
- For Place-Based Earth Science Learning Opportunities, There's No 'Place' Like Home
- Keweenaw Boulder Garden Revitalized Kame Terrace On Campus, Used as a Teaching Laboratory
- Developing Interpretive Materials for Isle Royale National Park - Bringing Geology to the Urban Classroom
- Using EarthCache to Promote Placed Based Education in Public Schools
- Using the National Parks as a Way to Engage Students in Urban Schools
- Awakening the Sleeping Bear! Bringing to Life the Geology, Historical and Cultural Life of Sleeping Bear Dunes to Students and Teachers Everywhere
- Taking Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Beyond its Borders: Using Technology to Bring Place to the Classroom
- A Sense of Place at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - Improving Teachers' Earth Science Literacy = Improving Students' Earth Science Literacy
- Earth Science Interpretation Efforts as a Geological Intern at Isle Royale National Park
- Using the National Parks as Way to Engage Diverse Learners in Earth Science Education
- Teaching Teachers about the Earth -- MiTEP's Summer Class Design
- Geologic Exposures of Isle Royale National Park for the Geologist and the Public