Professional Opportunities

Sites that list workshops, conferences, institutes, and long-term professional development events.

1. DataStreme Atmosphere
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 7 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 026940
   This Internet site from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) provides daily updated weather information for the United States along with a professional development training program for teachers to promote the use of weather as a vehicle of integrating mathematics, science, and technology. The data are designed to support the two weekly investigations for teachers participating in a graduate, distance-learning initiative, DataStreme Atmosphere.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
2. Tapped in: a community of education professionals
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018827
   This Internet site offers teachers a place to log in to share experiences, find and contribute educational resources, hold real time meetings, conduct collaborative inquiries, and meet new colleagues. TAPPED IN (short for Teacher Professional Development Institute) is a free CyberCampus where teachers and other education professionals create, shape, and participate in their own professional community.
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3. SEED, Spreading Educator to Educator Developments
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026090
   This Internet site features detailed teacher developed lesson plans focused on learning activities that use technology to add value to teaching and learning. The lesson plans were developed for a Maine professional development network aiming to help teachers integrate technology into the classroom.
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4. NASA home
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002360
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), provides users with space science information. From the home page, users may access a gallery with audio and video clips, including still images of the Earth's surface that may be downloaded.
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5. Cody's science education zone
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016349
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by Anthony Cody, a middle school science teacher in Oakland, California, helps teachers improve their inquiry teaching methods with articles, humor, and student activities. The articles deal with both current news stories about education and theoretical perspectives that impact teachers in the classroom.
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6. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 019498
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains information to support the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification process for teachers of grades K to 12. The National Board has established a framework of standards and certificates, classified by developmental level and subject area such as Middle Childhood/Generalist, Adolescence and Young Adulthood/English Language Arts.
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7. Project LABS
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017204
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for teachers of grades K to 12, contains lesson plans and hands-on activities produced by Project Learning About Basic Science (LABS), which is a cooperative program for science teachers sponsored by the Rohm and Haas Company. Since 1988, Project LABS has helped to teach the principles of basic science to elementary, middle and high school students.
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8. Association of Science-Technology Centers
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011589
   This web site, maintained by the the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), aims to nurture informal science education. It provides information about ASTC educational programs, youth programs, and travelling exhibits.
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9. The ARC Center
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): K - 5 Cost: Free ENC#: 018005
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is a collaboration between the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) and the three National Science Foundation supported elementary mathematics curriculum projects: Investigations in Number, Data, and Space; Everyday Mathematics; and Math Trailblazers. The goal of the collaboration is to promote wide scale and effective implementation of reform elementary mathematics curricula by consulting with schools and districts and by providing resources and information that support teacher enhancement and leadership development.
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10. Resource for Science Education (RSE) program
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 4 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 003080
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is a compilation of science projects for elementary, middle, and high school teachers for classroom use. The Resource for Science Education (RSE) program is intended to foster the development of curricula, programs of study, course modules, and/or strategies that enhance the use of visualization and networking methodologies in education.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
11. Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS), Inc.
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014523
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site focuses on providing guidance to students, grades 9 to 12, who are interested in engineering. The site offers information about activities, events, programs, and materials that aim to connect high school students with engineers and demonstrate what engineers do.
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12. National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 008592
    This Internet site is the home page of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), a professional organization dedicated to improving K-12 science education. The site links teachers to the many programs and services that the NSTA provides for science educators, such as electronic versions of its journals, the NSTA REPORTS! newspaper, and a number of special publications.
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13. Global SchoolNet Foundation: linking kids around the world
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1994 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002570
    The Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) is a World Wide Web (WWW) site designed as an educational information network. At GSN, the GLOBAL SCHOOLHOUSE is defined as a global, multi dimensional community, comprised of educators, businesses, government, and community organizations collaborating across time and space to transform working, living, and learning conditions.
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14. The Foundation Center Online
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 001897
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides information about the Foundation Center, an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse whose mission is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. From the home page, links are provided to pages covering topics such as the five Foundation Center field offices and 200 Cooperating Collections; educational programs on the funding research process, proposal writing, grantmakers and their giving, and related topics offered at Foundation Center libraries; an annotated directory of grantmakers on the Internet and links to nonprofit and government resources; highlights from the Center's research on and analysis of the private foundation universe; a searchable archive of philanthropy related articles and feature stories; lists of frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the funding research process, common grant application forms, and the Pr
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15. nctm.org: the online service of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010301
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), provides teachers with information about the NCTM organization and about current topics in mathematics education. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, founded in 1920, is a nonprofit professional association dedicated to the improvement of K to 12 mathematics education for all students in the United States and Canada.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
16. Glacier
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010889
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for students in grades 7 to 12, supplies extensive information on the continent of Antarctica and the research that is carried on there. The weather of Antarctica features information on temperature, snowfall, and winds as well as general background information on various topics in meteorology such as solar radiation, the atmosphere, and air pressure.
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17. Learning Technologies Project (LTP): grants and other funding sources
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 009005
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by NASA, is intended to inform educators, schools, and districts about ways that they can fund their attempts to successfully utilize the Internet and information technology in the classroom. The site provides a list of grants and the organizations that provide them.
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18. US Department of Education Office of the Secretary
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 009088
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides a large variety of links to technology related legislation, federal documents, funding opportunities, and educational events. Through projects initiated under the Improving America's Schools Act and through long term programs, the Department of Education promotes the use of technology in schools, libraries, and communities to achieve its mission of ensuring equal access to education and promoting educational excellence throughout the nation.
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19. Challenger Center for Space Science Education
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002329
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is maintained by the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, a not-for-profit organization charged with creating programs that help K to 12 students to learn about space and to develop their skills in critical thinking and decision making. The educational programs include classroom programs and learning center programs.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
20. National Indian Telecommunications Institute (NITI)
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 009992
    This Internet site is the home page of the National Indian Telecommunications Institute (NITI), a Native founded and Native run organization located in Sante Fe, New Mexico, whose goal is to employ advanced technology to serve American Indians and Alaska Natives in the areas of education, economic development, language and cultural preservation, tribal policy issues, and self determination. The Education section of this home page contains lists of sites relating to science, math, and general education.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)