Initiative Offers National Seminars

The national seminar on "Renewable Energy," July 2007. (Left to right: National Fellow Connie Scercy Wood, Charlotte; Amy Ringwood, Assistant Professor of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; National Fellows Georgia Redonet, Houston; Jennifer B. Esty, New Haven; and seminar leader Gary W. Brudvig.)

In 2009 the Initiative is offering six national seminars at Yale for leading teachers from League Institutes and from selected cities that are planning or considering the establishment of a Teachers Institute.

National seminars have the twin purposes of providing teachers firsthand experience with the Institute approach, while affording them an opportunity to increase their preparation in the subjects they teach and to develop a curriculum unit to teach what they have learned to their own students and to share with other teachers. Each teacher selected as a Yale National Fellow participates in one of the national seminars.

National Fellows must already be, or must be committed to become, leaders in a local Teachers Institute. Teachers selected as Yale National Fellows participate in an Organizational Session of the seminars on May 1-2, in daily seminar meetings held during the Intensive Session at Yale on July 6-17, and in the Annual Conference on October 23-24.

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