Register now for Summer 2008 activities!

CMSE is offering a rich slate of activities in summer 2008, including many activities in NC-MSEN's SITE (Statewide Institutes in Teaching Excellence) program. You can apply now for these institutes!

Here are the offerings for next summer:

• Middle Mathematics Workshops. This will be the third year for these popular two-day workshops. Next summer we'll have all new activities, so the workshops will be of interest to returning as well as new teachers. Tentative dates are June 16-17 and June 19-20.
• SITE Geometry. This five-day institute for high school geometry teachers was a great success this summer. If you missed it, it will be available June 23-27 at East Chapel Hill High School.
• SITE K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 Science. The advent of NCLB science testing has focused attention on elementary and middle school science. In cooperation with the NC School of Science and Mathematics, these courses include weeklong institutes to be held at NCSSM June 23-27, plus four days of additional institute sessions during the 2008-09 academic year. (The link is to the NCSSM InfoNow web site.)
• SITE Content Area Reading in Science and Mathematics (CARSAM). This new institute program, piloted very successfully last summer, will be offered June 23-27.
• SITE 9-12 Biology (Chapel Hill). CMSE and NCSSM are working together to organize two institutes for biology teachers; this one will be held August 4-8 in Chapel Hill.
• SITE 9-12 Biology (at NCSSM). CMSE and NCSSM are working together to organize two institutes for biology teachers; this one will be held July 7-11 at NCSSM in Durham.
• SITE Advanced Functions and Modeling. This popular one-week institute will be offered once again at NCSSM; the dates will be July 14-18. (The link is to the NCSSM InfoNow web site.)

Online Discrete Mathematics course planned for Fall 2008

Center Director Russ Rowlett is developing a new online course in Discrete Mathematics intended for teachers seeking licensure in middle grades or secondary mathematics. The new course is one of many being developed by UNC General Administration as part of major effort, led by President Erskine Bowles and supported by the legislature, to expand UNC's online offerings.

The new course will be offered in a pilot version in fall semester 2008. Registration will be through the Carolina Courses Online program.

Apply now for the K-8 Science M.Ed. program

March 1 is the deadline for applications for the Masters of Education for Experience Teachers (M.Ed.X) cohorts beginning in Summer 2008. This summer three new cohorts of teachers will be admitted, including a cohort in K-8 Science (the other cohorts are K-12 Literacy and K-12 Special Education).

The M.Ed.X program is designed specifically for working teachers who will have at least three years of classroom teaching experience by June. Participants will take 31 hours of graduate work over three summers and two academic years. Eighteen hours of course work will be taken in the specialty area, and the remaining 13 hours of course work will be taken with experienced teachers who are participating in other M.Ed. specialty areas.

Completion of the M.Ed. for Experienced Teachers program will make a North Carolina public school teacher eligible for master's level salary.

There will not be another K-8 Science cohort starting until at least 2010, so don't miss this opportunity! For more information, visit the School of Education's web site here.