Several WW-P teachers are involved in a two-week summer program for teachers at Princeton University this month. CONNECT-ED at Quest, offered for kindergarten to grade 12 teachers, enhances teachers’ personal knowledge of science and math through hands-on activities.##M:[more]##
Jeff Grabell from Dutch Neck School is a lead teacher in the math unit. Teresa Maone from Grover Middle School is a lead teacher with a Princeton chemistry professor. Heidi Wachtin from Millstone River School is a lead teacher with a professor from Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the weather unit. Gwen Komyati from Village School is a participant in the program.
Every day a team of elementary, middle, and high school teachers, working with a curriculum expert and a scientist, teach a module with a focus on a major concept. While tracing the development of the idea through elementary, middle and high school, teachers recognize that curriculum at different grade levels are all related.
Participants, who work in small groups, perform experiments while developing skills for teaching inquiry-based science and math. Workshops will continue during the school year. The program is a partnership of 15 school districts, private schools, Princeton and Rider universities, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and industry.
Joseph Bossio, a history teacher at High School North, traveled to the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library to attend a one-week competitive application seminar entitled, “The Idea that is America” led by Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. The seminar, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, was attended by 22 teachers and examined seven core American values including liberty, democracy, equality, justice, tolerance, humility, and faith.
