Back to school for teacher training
Thirty-six Northeastern Wisconsin elementary schoolteachers went back to school this summer… as students, themselves.
Through a grant-funded seminar at UW-Green Bay, the teachers learned how to better incorporate science-teaching methods into daily classroom activities, including learning new hands-on experiments they can do with students.
The summer seminar, developed in partnership with The Einstein Project and the funded through part of a $335,595 grant from the Wisconsin Improving Teacher Quality (WITQ) Program, focused on Earth science and environmental science. It was held Aug. 3-14.
Teachers learned such things as rock and mineral identification, studying what’s in the watershed, “bottle biology” (making a terrarium out of two-liter bottles), using cutting-edge computer technology that won’t break the budget, such as Google Earth, and science “notebooking,” which incorporates science learning with writing and grammar.
The grant will fund additional years of teacher training at UW-Green Bay that will focus on botany, human biology, astronomy and meteorology/climatology.
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Photos by Mike Heine, and Prof. Scott Ashmann
UW-Green Bay
Participating Northeast Wisconsin teachers, school districts, grade(s) taught
• Christine Alloy, Wausaukee, second and third
• Thomas Beattie , Antigo, fourth
• Beverly Bozile, Appleton, kindergarten
• Kelly Brennan Calaway, Pulaski, third
• Lori Carstens, Howards Grove, fourth
• Valerie Ceranske, Waupaca, third
• Colleen Connery, UW-Green Bay student, pre-service teacher
• Lisa Delfosse, Wausaukee, first and second
• Pamela Dellise, Green Bay, fourth
• Scott Hendrickson, Antigo, fourth
• Julie Johnson, Howards Grove, fourth
• Juanita (Nita) Kirst, Nekoosa, first
• Andrea Konitzer, Waupaca, fifth
• Jennie Lambrecht, Green Bay, fourth
• Melissa Lange, Pulaski, fifth
• Terry Larsen, Athens, third
• Dana Lucius, Northwood, eighth
• Amy Magnin, Appleton, kindergarten
• Darcy Marcou, Royall, first
• Nancy Mather, Green Bay, fifth
• Patricia Maulson, Lac du Flambeau, fourth
• Molly Overeem, Green Bay, fourth
• Gloria Overesch, De Pere, sixth
• Jeanne Peterson, Nekoosa, third
• Irene Prantis, Green Bay, fifth
• Amanda Rodenhauser, UW-Green Bay student, pre-service teacher
• Beth Rodenhauser, UW-Green Bay student, pre-service teacher
• Caryn Rosenbeck, Kaukauna, second
• Janis Schneider, Howard-Suamico, fifth
• Julie Sipiorski, Appleton, third
• Jessica Ullmer, Kaukauna, second
• Laura Vandelinder, UW-Green Bay student, pre-service teacher
• Connie Vang, Green Bay, fourth and fifth
• Heather Vorpahl, De Pere, sixth
• Kandi Wendlendt, Green Bay, kindergarten
• Elizabeth Wulf, Appleton, kindergarten
For more information
• Einstein Science Institute for Elementary School Teachers homepage
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