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Curriculum:
Toyota Teacher Leaders
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Teacher
Leadership Opportunities FULL!
All Toyota Teacher Leader positions for the 2003-2004 academic year
have been filled. Thank you for you interest in the program and
please continue to check back for future opportunities. For further
information contact Meridith
Bruozas.
Teacher Leadership Opportunity
The GEODE Initiative at Northwestern University
is recruiting educators to become Toyota Teacher
Leaders in Environmental Science. Teacher Leaders are visionaries
in environmental science education, with a track record of assisting
other teachers in improving the science instruction in their classrooms.
These leaders will support the nationwide roll out of Looking
at the Environment, a new research-based
environmental science curriculum for high school that incorporates
technology to support investigations with data. Looking
at the Environment is scheduled for publication in 2004.
Toyota Teacher Leaders will be selected through an application process,
based on teaching and leadership experience, and geographic diversity.
Teacher Leaders will receive: materials, software,
and professional development; the opportunity to collaborate
with peers around the country; and the opportunity to work closely
with Northwestern University researchers in the development
and evaluation of a modern, innovative environmental science curricula.
Selected Toyota Teacher Leaders will attend a one-week summer workshop
tentatively scheduled for the week of July 21, 2003. At that workshop,
they will be introduced to Looking at the Environment, its
pedagogical approach, and the technologies that it incorporates.
Travel expenses and a $500 stipend will be provided for the workshop.
During the 2003-4 school year they will implement
the curriculum in their classroom or support one or more teachers
in their school district who will be implementing it. In subsequent
years, they will serve as national, regional, or local resources
for environmental science education reform by supporting teachers
implementing Looking at the Environment, facilitating an
online professional community, and/or offering professional development
workshops in a variety of settings.
In exchange for a school year stipend of $1000, Teacher Leaders
will be expected to spend at least forty hours during the 2003-4
school year doing some combination of leading
professional development, supporting other teachers, or developing
materials for the Looking at the Environment project.
Ideally, Toyota Teacher Leaders will:
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Be experienced teachers of environmental
science or a closely related subject.
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Be committed to inquiry-based science teaching
and comfortable with the use of technology.
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Have experience assisting teachers with
implementation of new curricula.
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Be comfortable leading professional development
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Be prepared to develop a plan for conducting
professional development and support for a local, regional,
or national community of environmental science teachers.
Toyota Teacher Leaders can be:
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Classroom teachers with the experience and
interest to assist their peers in implementing Looking at the
Environment.
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Administrators, department chairs, and other
school district personal with responsibility for supporting
and improving science instruction.
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Retired teachers or free-lance professional
developers who are interested in staying involved in improving
science education.
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University faculty or informal environmental
educators who are interested in offering professional development
and ongoing support to environmental science teachers in their
region.
Download a pdf version of the
Toyota Teacher
Leader Brochure!
For information on future opportunities,
please contact:
Meridith Bruozas <m-bruozas@northwestern.edu>
GEODE Initiative
2120 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
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