SUMMER 2008 COURSES
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Summer in Costa Rica
The Delicate Connection of People and the Biology of the Rainforest: Implications for Curriculum (Grades 3 - 8) TEED648N
We invite you to experience the rainforest in a field-based, 16-day course that explores the Costa Rican rainforest, including its unique environment, and the community and the culture of the people who live there.
Our goal is to learn how to construct a meaningful, unsentimental, and accurate curriculum on the issues surrounding land reform and saving the rainforest. To this end we will meet with local people, such as conservationists, farmers, hotel owners, artists, and teachers and visit two local schools. We will also meet with expert biologists for hands-on experiences with bats, birds, insects, butterflies, monkeys, flowers, and plants.
Most of all, you will learn practical and thoughtful ways of teaching children about nature and social studies through inquiry. You will also learn how to teach children about far-away places, including use of technology, so you can explore and teach about the rainforest through an interdisciplinary perspective in your own classroom or museum setting.
Susan Wu is an environmental educator in the Tiorati Workshop for Environmental Learning at Bank Street College. She uses a science inquiry-based approach on field trips for children in grades K-7 to various nature sites. Susan has a background in biology and has worked in the education department of the Tech Museum of Innovation, an interactive science museum in San Jose, CA.
July 27 through August 11
No credit or 8 CEU, travel, lodging, and most meals $4,000
2 credits, travel, lodging, and most meals $4,550
3 credits, travel, lodging, and most meals $5,375
Space is limited.
Click here for a slideshow from the 2007 class. >>
For more information, call Joy Ellebbane at 212/875-4707 or
email studyabroad@bankstreet.edu.
Spring Break in Morocco
Cultural Explorations in Morocco: Implications for Educators in Multi-cultural Settings (Grades K - 6) TEED651N
Morocco is a multi-cultural society with a modern educational system that has evolved as a consequence of the legacy of French Colonialalism and post-independence Arab nationalism. In our week stay, we will study the Moroccan educational system as a lens into Arab culture as a situated in Morocco. We will use this experience as a vehicle to explore the discources underlying public schooling in America and the challenges of working in a multicultural settings. As part of the study, we will pay particular attention to the issue of power and hierarchy within the Moroccan educational system. This includes exploring the acculturation of the Berber population following independence and the more recent efforts towards asserting Berber identity, culture, and language. During the trip, we will visit several elementary schools in both rural and urban settings as well as meet with authorities from prominent Moroccan universities and institutions with knowledge of, and backgrounds in, education and culture.
Timothy Lightman has been an early childhood educator, teacher, consultant, and researcher for over 13 years. Currently, he is working on his dissertation exploring issues of disability in elementary schools, at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Tentative Course Dates for 2009: April 10 - 18
This course is available for No Credit, 1 Credit and 2 Credits*. Course fees TBD.
Click here to view a brief slide show of sites in Morocco >>
*Participants will complete an assignment by May 2 for 1 credit and by May 23 for an optional second credit.
For more information, call Joy Ellebbane at 212/875-4707 or
email studyabroad@bankstreet.edu.
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