News Stories on Professional Development
Science Program Puts Teachers in the Field (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
A partnership program enables teachers to work in a lab with scientists and take back the latest technological information they learn to their students.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/182793_dcenter20.html
Science Teachers With an 'Iron' Will (San Francisco Chronicle)
Teachers compete against one another using a golf ball to create experiments that educators everywhere can use to make science come alive in the classroom.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/13/BAGHF7KHRJ1.DTL
Science Teacher Digs for Lessons in a Mine (Baltimore Sun)
A Maryland science teacher is better equipped to teach her ninth-grade Earth science classes after spending the summer months exploring a mine.