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For Immediate Release
May 22, 2003
Nebraska Teachers Selected For Science
institute
LINCOLN, Neb. -Fourteen Nebraska
teachers have been selected for a prestigious science institute
aimed at improving their scientific backgrounds and teaching methods.
The K-12 Science Teaching Institute will be held
June 1-20 at Nebraska Wesleyan University. The program has been
made possible through a four-year grant for $1.1 million from the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which was awarded to Nebraska
Wesleyan University in 2001.
The Institute serves as an outreach program for
Nebraska K-12 math and science teachers from Class C and D schools.
The program is designed to help rural school teachers who have a
broad field science teaching endorsement or those teaching a subject
they are not endorsed in to help improve their scientific backgrounds
and teaching methods. The 20-day program will focus on hands-on
instruction in biology, chemistry, physics, instructional technology,
and global positioning systems. Courses are taught by area teachers
and Nebraska Wesleyan University faculty. All participants will
develop a community-based project at the Institute.
Applicants were required to write about how their
participation in the Institute will help increase the number of
students in their schools who enter science or math fields and what
they most want to gain from their experience. Selected teachers
receive a $1,400 stipend, graduate credit from Nebraska Weselyan
University, a one-year membership in the Nebraska Association of
Teachers of Science (NATS), an all expenses paid trip to the NATS
conference, and free instructional and technological support beyond
the Institute.
Fifty-three colleges and universities received a
total of $50.3 million in four-year grants through HHMI. Only nine
of 53 colleges and universities received more than the $1.1 million
awarded to Nebraska Wesleyan University, which is the only institution
in Nebraska to receive the grant.
Nebraska teachers selected for the 2003 Science
Teaching Institute are:
Barb Jeffres, Big Springs Public
Schools, 4th grade
Shauna Ross-Roberson, Big Springs Public Schools,
7th-8th grades
Joevette Donnor, Burwell Elementary School, K-8th
grades
Joy Schott, Burwell Junior and Senior High School,
7th-8th grades
Suzanne Goedeken, Hastings High School, secondary
resource
Mary Ann Niemoth, Hastings St. Cecilia High School,
9th-12th grades
David Howard, Lodgepole High School, 7th-12th grades
Tessa Fraass, Lodgepole Elementary School, 5th-6th
grades
Kelly Simmons, Ravenna Public Schools, 5th-6th
grades
Tren Miller, Ravenna Public Schools, 7th-8th, 11th-12th
grades
Scott Brauer, Rising City Public Schools, 7th-12th
grades
Cindy Lorentzen, Rising City Public Schools, 5th-6th
grades
Vicki Mitchell, Sidney Public Schools, 7th-8th
grades
Patricia Welch, Sidney Public Schools, 7th-12th
grades
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