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The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the federal government. Each year the NEH offers teachers opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and Institutes.
The Institute is designed so that educators and CERC faculty work together on inquiry based education and experiential learning at field sites while earning credits in conservation biology in human ecology. The summer courses are a combination of lectures, field work, labs, and curriculum development seminars.
The Summer Seminars program at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers offers teachers the chance to spend a week enriching their understanding of history, literature, and research in one of the world’s greatest libraries. The Cullman Center, located in The New York Public Library’s landmark building on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, is the setting for a series of stimulating, informal daily seminars led by some of the world’s finest writers, literary critics, and historians. Participants will also learn how to use the extraordinary resources of the Library and be given time to do their own research and writing in a congenial setting.
The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to strengthen participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. Public, parochial, independent school teachers, and National Park Service rangers are eligible. These weeklong seminars provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom.
State funds in the amount of $2,500,000 are available from the State Education Department (SED) for grants to colleges and universities in partnership with public school districts to pay 50 percent of the costs of teachers attending university or college-based 2007 summer classes and/or institutes designed to improve their professional content knowledge and refresh and renew their competency in the use and classroom application of state-of-the-art technology in the areas of mathematics and/or science.
The Summer Teacher Institute is a five-day collection-based academic course for teachers of all grade levels and subject areas. The Institute provides teachers with a sequence of seminars led by a variety of Museum staff. Teachers are responsible for independent reading related to the subject, as well as creating a new lesson plan for use in the Museum or classroom. Participants are eligible for New York City 3P credits.
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide.
Columbia University will award a minimum of 10 new Fellowships in 2008 to New York metropolitan area middle and high school science classroom teachers and science staff developers/instructional specialists. These awards will support your work in research laboratories over the course of two summers (2008 & 2009).