>>> karen ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>>
...I can use about $500 of dept. $ for travel to a conference this summer or next year
as long as that conference is designed to help improve teaching effectiveness.... >>>>
This would stretch your budget - but I would highly recommend the Excellence in
Teaching Program, at Northwestern University in Chicago. It is held every summer in
June - I went last year and it is one of the BEST conference experiences I have ever
had.
You can read about it and get an application to apply at:
http://president.scfte.nwu.edu/Best.htm
Here is a little of that information:
What do some of the most effective teachers (those who have the most sustained,
substantial, and positive influence on the way students think and act) do that makes
them effective? How can we use knowledge of their methods to improve our own teaching?
For more than a decade we have explored these questions in observing and interviewing
scores of successful teachers and their students, at Northwestern and elsewhere. At
our annual summer institutes, participants will hear the initial conclusions of our
study, and will have the opportunity to consider whether and how the insights of these
outstanding teachers can influence their own teaching.
What do the best teachers do to captivate and motivate students, to help them reach
unusually high levels of accomplishment? What can the learning sciences tell us
about helping people learn? Participants in this highly interactive workshop will
explore and use both recent conclusions from the learning sciences and findings from a
decade-long inquiry into practices and insights of highly successful teachers. The
program will emphasize both improving one's teaching and developing ways to share
insights with colleagues back home. Last year the program filled rapidly. Enrollment
limited.
What Do the Best Teachers Do?
June 23-25, 1999
$410 (applications received by April 15)
$450 (applications received by May 15)
Laura Duvall
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