The leader and inspiration for
this teacher study tour offered for professional development credits is Dr. Mary Ann De Mello, Assistant School Superintendent in Hopkinton, MA who recently completed her doctoral dissertation titled: «The Impact of Study Tours in Developing Global - Mindedness Among PK - 12 Educators» (2011).
Not exact matches
A
study of Civil War battles would be an example of that type of activity; the
teacher would assign groups different battles, the students would research their assigned battles, collect pictures, and then give a guided
tour of the battlefield, telling what happened there.»
During such virtual
tours, the students, along with
teachers, can immerse themselves into the surroundings of the
studied subject, varying from the ancient pyramids, or the ocean floor to the outer space.
Making Social
Studies Work for At - Risk Kids Joann Winkler, the 2004 National Council for the Social
Studies (NCSS) elementary school
teacher of the year, has her at - risk kids running businesses, collecting for the needy, and giving national park «
tours.»
Selected
teachers travel on a short - term (2 - 3 week)
study tour to a country that is at the forefront of innovative solutions to environmental challenges.
For the past four months, the 19 public and public charter school
teachers in the CityBridge - NewSchools Education Innovation Fellowship have engaged in an in - depth
study of the most promising practices in blended and personalized learning, traveling the country and hearing from the leaders in the field., Recently, the Fellows spent part of their school - year spring break on a whirlwind
tour of four public schools in Detroit that are budding laboratories in personalized learning.
This
study tour provided participants an opportunity to learn about the use of high - quality student and
teacher surveys which have been developed by the University of Chicago and used in the Chicago Public Schools and the state of Illinois.
Our two - hour long
tour will help
teachers meet state standards for Social
Studies courses that focus on the American Revolution, the settlement of South Carolina, and early American history and culture, especially third grade, fourth grade, eighth grade, and US History course in South Carolina.
The Anne Frank House organised two international
study tours for Dutch
teachers who wanted to deepen their knowledge of the history of the Holocaust and address the issue of how to design thought - provoking lessons on the subject.