Center for Global Education

Spring / Summer Institute / To Register

General Information

• All workshops are held at Framingham State College
• All one-day workshops offer 10 PDPs upon completion of curriculum planning guide
• 2010 Summer institute offered for 45 PDPs or three Framingham State College graduate credits (see details below)
  

SPRING

Creative Bookmaking with Recycled Materials: Accordions, Slat and Palm Leaf Books  Cancelled

Date:        Saturday, February 27 (8:45am-3:00pm
Grade:      All Levels
Instructor: Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord
Cost:         $50.00 (includes lunch and materials)
PDPs:       10

Course Description: Using grocery bags, cereal boxes and recycled copy paper, you'll learn how to make simple handmade books based on traditional forms from different cultures and then vary and adapt them to create books on topics of your choice. There will be lots of models to look at for inspiration and a free-spirited approach to the process—no rulers allowed. If you have taken Susan's workshops before, you may be familiar with some of the forms but you'll have time to experiment and make books suited to your curriculum needs. You'll spend an active but relaxing day and be ready for new projects in the classroom.

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Teaching the Geography of Water

Date:         Saturday, March 27 (8:45am-3:00pm)
Grade:      Middle school and up
Instructor: John Daly
Cost:         $50.00    (includes lunch and materials)
PDPs:       10

Course description: This workshop introduces hands-on, classroom-ready activities for students to explore the role and importance of water in world geography.  Some lessons will be used from Water in the Global Environment (a National Council for Geographic Education publication) and from Water (a National Geographic special edition), and Geography of Water (U.C. Press).  Additional teacher-made lessons will look at the world’s largest wetlands, the world’s water in a gallon jug, a role-playing activity on the River Jordan, map reading on Mississippi River drainage, and current events lessons on water (or the lack of water) from the Amazon and South and East Asia.  The workshop will include several short videos suitable for classroom use; resources for teaching the geography of water will be discussed.

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Geography Across the Curricula

Date:        Saturday, April 10 (8:45am-3:00pm)
Grade:      Elementary and middle school
Instructor: Marshall Levy
Cost:        $50.00    (includes lunch and materials)
PDPs:       10 PDPs

Course description: This workshop covers the five major concepts of geography:  location; place; human interaction with the environment; movement; and regions, as well as the geographic terms specified in the Frameworks.  Hands-on activities emphasizing the use of geography in social studies, math, science, and literature are included.  Creative ways to incorporate geography into the curricula to enhance student understanding and performance will be explored.  In addition to activities, sharing ideas through cooperative learning and brainstorming will comprise a part of the workshop.

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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

Teaching the Geography of Southeast Asia and Oceania:  A Content Institute for the Middle School

Dates:   Monday, June 28 to Friday, July 2
             (9:00am–4:00pm with 30 minute lunch break)
             Post-session Wednesday, August 25 (4:00-7:00pm)
Grade:  Middle school, adaptable to high school

Cost:     $100.00  
PDPs:   45 PDPs (includes lunch, teaching materials, and
            post-session dinner)

or

Cost:     $295.00   
Credits: 3 graduate credits 
             (includes lunch, teaching materials,
             & post-session dinner)

Course description: This institute provides teachers with content material, classroom resources, and teaching strategies for interdisciplinary teaching about the physical and cultural geography of Southeast Asia and Oceania, to include Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, New Zealand, Palau, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the U.S. territories of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands.  We will explore bodies of water, such as the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Coral Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the South China Sea, and consider human development in cities, rural areas, as well as coastal and mountainous regions.    

Participating teachers will receive a wide range of teaching resources, as well as meals, during the week.  The cost of the institute is $100.  Three graduate credits are available from Framingham State College for an additional $195.  Participants who do not take the institute for graduate credit will receive 45 PDPs.  

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For more information, contact Dr. Sue Dargan at sdargan@framingham.edu (preferred) or 508-626-4867.

TO REGISTER

Please print registration form under course description & fax (508.626.4030) or mail the completed form to:

Nancy Proulx, Center for Global Education, DGCE
Framingham State College
100 State St, PO Box 9101
Framingham, MA 01701-9101

Any questions, please contact Nancy Proulx, Center for Global Education, at: e-mail - nproulx@framingham.edu or telephone - 508-626-4034.

We also offer other professional development opportunities through:

• Christa C. McAuliffe Center for Education & Teaching Excellence
• Online Professional Development Center for Educators 
• John C. Stalker Institute for Food and Nutrition

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