| Attention
Master Science Educators at Middle School, High School, and College Levels |
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| OSCI
7–10 needs you to be a facilitator to teach the NEW 2005-2007
OSCI Institutes for Grades 7–10! |
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| What
Are the OSCI Institutes for Grades 7-10? |
| Who
Are OSCI 7-10 Facilitators? |
| What
Do OSCI 7-10 Facilitators Do? |
| What
Are the Benefits of Being a Facilitator? |
| What
Commitment Do OSCI 7-10 Facilitators Make? |
| Where
Will Facilitators Be Trained? |
| Who’s
Leading the Training Sessions? |
| How
Can I Apply to Be an OSCI 7-10 Facilitator? |
| Questions? |
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| What
Are the OSCI Institutes for Grades 7-10? |
| The Ohio Science Institutes (OSCI)
for grades 7–10 promote increased student achievement in science through
a deeper understanding of content, standards-based instruction, and inquiry-oriented
teaching, and through ongoing professional development for science teachers. |
| This extended learning experience
includes the following programming: |
- An intensive five-day summer 2005 foundation
workshop, one fall 2005 Saturday meeting,
and one spring 2006 Saturday meeting
To learn more about the institutes, click
here. |
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| Who
Are OSCI 7-10 Facilitators? |
- Facilitators are instructors of the newly updated
and revised Ohio Science Institutes (OSCI) for grades 7-10.
- Facilitators are highly qualified teachers of earth
science, life science, or physical science from middle school, high
school, and college/university levels.
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| What
Do OSCI 7-10 Facilitators Do? |
| OSCI 7-10 Facilitators
will… |
- teach and mentor participants in one or more OSCI 7-10 2005-06 Institutes (See “What Commitment Do OSCI 7-10 Facilitators Make?” below.)
- be ambassadors of the OSCI 7-10 project
- mentor and support their teachers as they develop lesson plans to adapt and implement OSCI modules into their curricula
- support their teacher participants in learning and
implementing course materials into their professional agendas
- evaluate teacher assignments and projects throughout the year providing timely feed back to teacher participants with specific recommendations for improvement;
- complete individual performance evaluations for each of the teachers in their Institutes to be provided to Miami University faculty as per the schedule to be announced; and
- develop enhancements to their own science, pedagogical, and leadership knowledge and skills through special facilitator preparation classes and on-going mentoring during the deployment stages of the program.
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| What
Are the Benefits of Being an OSCI 7-10 Facilitator? |
| Graduate Credit |
- Semester hours of graduate credit in science will be awarded from
Miami University at no cost to you for completion of the facilitator
preparation and implementation courses. This can be applied to Highly
Qualified status, license renewal with approval, or a Master’s degree with approval of your university.
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| (for Cycle 1, 2005-2006) |
- All facilitators will earn 4 semester hours for completing the 2005
summer preparation course (Successful completion is defined as attendance and active participation in all days of the workshop and completion of all activities, assignments, and projects). Persons successfully completing the facilitator training will be certified by Miami for having done so and their names will be forwarded to ODE.
- Those who successfully complete one of the facilitator preparation courses (noted above) and who are selected by ODE for a face-to-face facilitator role will also enroll in a variable credit (2-6 credit hours) facilitator leadership course to begin in the summer 2005 and end in May 2006. This course is offered in conjunction with the OSCI 7-10 teacher institutes with two (2) semester hours of graduate credit awarded for each workshop. In addition to the teaching the 7-day teacher institutes, facilitators will be expected to complete all required assignments associated with this effort.
- Details on cycle 2 (2006-2007)
will be provided at a later time.
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| Stipends |
- Facilitators receive $4,000 per institute taught in cycle
1. You can teach more than one institute in cycle 1.
- Individuals selected as substitutes will receive
a prorated amount, based on the number of days they are called to cover.
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| Other Benefits |
- Try out rich lessons and assessment strategies to use with your teachers
in the teacher institutes and to implement in your own classes.
- Join an elite community of master science teachers with similar interests
and concerns
- Build strong working relationships with a team of facilitators to
present the teacher institutes in a particular region or district. These
deployment teams will be mentored by instructional staff.
- Be rewarded with valuable incentives, including credit, books, and materials.
- Develop the strength to deliver the outstanding programming that
teachers in the institutes will expect and are entitled to.
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| What
Commitment Do OSCI 7-10 Facilitators Make? |
- Participate in 5.5 days of graduate-credit training
June 12-17, 2005, and accompanying web components for facilitators that
extend throughout spring 2006
- Actively teach in all aspects of the programming
you sign up to do. You will work as a part
of a team, with all team members being equally responsible for the delivery
of the module. All members of the team are expected to be present at
meetings with teachers. We hope to identify a substitute to work as
a member of the team who can work if needed due to illness or other
necessary emergency absence of a primary team member.
- Academic-year sessions will be a part of the facilitators’ responsibilities. The institute will involve one Saturday in fall 2005 and one Saturday in spring 2006 (dates TBA).
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| Where
Will Facilitators Be Trained? |
| Training will occur on the three campuses of Miami
University. |
- Facilitators for Earth Science will meet at Miami University Oxford
- Facilitators for Life Science will meet at Miami University Middletown
- Facilitators for Physical Science will meet at Miami University Hamilton
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| Participant housing (double occupancy), breakfast and lunch,
and a travel allocation will be provided for the June 2005 training session. |
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| Who’s
Leading the Training Sessions? |
| Facilitator workshop instruction will be taught
by teams of Miami University science faculty and other STEM faculty from
throughout the State. Content teams are lead by the following Miami University
faculty: |
| Life science with emphasis on:
Diversity of Life, Species Adaptation, and Evolution |
- Rick Lee, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, and Carolyn Keiffer,
Associate Professor of Botany
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| Earth science with emphasis on:
Plate Tectonics, Patterns of Earth Features, and Geologic Time |
- Hays Cummins, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Mark Boardman,
Director of the Institute of Environmental Studies
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| Physical science with emphasis
on: Forces, Motion, and Potential and Kinetic Energy |
- Beverley Taylor, Professor of Physics, and Dwight Portman, long-time
Miami University Physics Instructor and retired Winton Woods high school
physics teacher.
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| How
Can I Apply to Be an OSCI 7-10 Facilitator? |
| (APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED) |
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| Questions? |
| Please contact: Joyce Feltz,
Manager of Instructional Programming, Center for Chemistry Education, 513-727-3392,
feltzja@muohio.edu. |
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