Energy I (Integrating the Sciences through Energy)
Status:
OPEN FOR REGISTRATION
For Boston Teachers:
Click Here To Register (This course will be posted on My Learning Plan shortly. In the meantime, Boston teachers should register directly through this site using this link.)
This course is a graduate-level science content course designed for pre-service and in-service middle school science teachers and contextualized to the standards/inquiry-based middle school curricula. It provides graduate-level content while modeling sound pedagogy. Using current and future curriculum materials, as well as State and National standards for the teaching of science at the middle school level, this course offers an in-depth exploration of fundamental principles of energy as they relate to biological, physical, chemical, and earth sciences. Special emphasis will be placed on the interdisciplinary relationships among these topics so that energy can be used to integrate across the disciplinary sciences. Students will be exposed to the current state of knowledge in the scientific community through laboratory activities, outside readings, classroom presentations, and in-depth discussions with classmates. Students will participate in hands-on, inquiry based exercises drawn from National science standards-based middle school instructional materials which will allow them to review these teaching materials and methods, as well as develop research-based strategies for communicating with students, especially English language learners and students with other special needs.
Course Number:
PHYS 597
Session:
Fall Session 2009
Dates:
September 14, 21, 28; October 5, (NO CLASS - Columbus Day 10/12), 19, 26; November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; December 5 (SATURDAY), 7.
Times:
4:00 PM - 7:30 PM on Monday dates, 1 Saturday all-day class (December 5)
Location:
University of Massachusetts - Boston
Building/Room:
Science Building, 3rd Floor, Room 126
Course Tuition Payment/Graduate Credit:
The University of Massachusetts-Boston will grant 3 semester hours of graduate credit for satisfactory completion of this course. Teachers wishing to receive a stipend for the course MUST take the course for graduate credit through UMass-Boston. All teachers must pay the course tuition fee of $295 on the first day of class. It is highly advised that you pay with a check on the first day (check for $295 made out to ‘University of Massachusetts-Boston’). Online credit card payments (not recommended) via a third-party billing service are accepted, but there will be a 2.5% processing surcharge added to the bill, bringing the total cost to $302.38.
Stipend Information:
Under the new stipend policy in effect for Boston teachers, teachers from BPS will receive a stipend of $545 for satisfactory completion of this course for graduate credit. This equals the cost of tuition ($295) plus $250. This stipend amount will be issued by BPS and placed directly into your paycheck as a line item. University of Massachusetts-Boston M.Ed. students are eligible to earn stipends of $295 for this course (which covers the cost of tuition). Non-Boston teachers are eligible to earn stipends of $600. This stipend amount will be issued by the GNNSP grant sponsoring non-Boston teachers. NOTE: All students MUST take the course for graduate credit (teachers will receive up to 60 PDP’s as well, pro-rated based upon attendance).
Attendance Policy:
In order to receive graduate credit for this course, participants may not miss in excess of 8 instructional hoursover the duration of the course. Any hours missed up until this point must be cleared with the instructional team, and alternative arrangements must be made to make up the work if necessary.
Syllabus:
TBA
Instructional Team:
Bob Chen (UMB), Robert Stevenson (UMB), Bala Sundaram (UMB); Fernando Cleves (BPS)
Notes:
Coffee and a light snack will be provided to all participants
Parking passes will be provided to all participants
A $50 non-refundable course registration fee is required to secure your position within the class. Please make the check out to "Boston Science Partnership/UMass Boston" with the name of the course and your e-mail address in the memo line.
Please send the check to:
Nick Smetana
Center for STEM Education
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue, 520 INV
Boston, MA 02115
