**Cal Teach courses offered this Winter Quarter!
Are you interested in working alongside a mentor teacher in a local classroom?
Make a difference! Enroll in a Cal Teach course!

-"Introduction to Science & Math Teaching"
Physical Sciences 5 - 49005
Biological Sciences 14 - 05090
25 hour fieldwork requirement.

-"Middle School Science & Math Teaching"
Physical Sciences 105 - 49100
Biological Sciences 101 - 05397
25 hour fieldwork requirement.

-"Secondary Science & Math Teaching"
Physical Sciences 106 - 49150
Biological Sciences 102 - 05398
20 hour fieldwork requirement.


**Cal Teach Resource & Advising Center Office Hours
We will be closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday, Thursday and Friday of this week.
We will be closed for the Winter Break, from December 20th through January 4th.
Our office will resume normal operating hours on Monday, January 5th.


**CSET Math Prep Link
Those of you who are prepping to become Math teachers, check the following link:
http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/AR0111006/


**KSTF Teaching Fellowships
The KSTF Teaching Fellowship program was explicitly designed to meet these
needs of beginning high school science and mathematics teachers as they earn a
teaching credential and through the early years of their career.
KSTF Teaching Fellows are young men and women who have received a bachelor's
or advanced degree in science, engineering or mathematics and are committed to
teaching high school science and/or mathematics in U.S. schools. The fellowship
supports them professionally and financially for up to five years through a teacher
preparation program to eligibility for tenure.
*Application is due January 9th by 2pm!*
http://www.kstf.org/tf_application_info.aspx
If you have questions e-mail: teachers@kstf.org


**Math for America Fellowships
Math for America sites are part of a national network devoted to improving
math and science education in our country’s public schools by attracting,
training and retaining talented teachers.
The MƒA model provides strong support services, mentoring, and an incentive
system designed to reward high quality teachers. MƒA sites develop Fellowships
that reflect the MƒA model and the resources of their communities.
MƒA Fellows are part of a national corps of highly qualifed secondary math and
science teachers.

*Check website for application due dates!*
http://www.mathforamerica.org/web/guest/home


**Inside the Outdoors (ITO) Educator Trainings
A series of professional development trainings for K-12th grade teachers. Generously
sponsored, you receive resources at no cost to reinforce your learning and a certificate of completion.

*Project WILD - Saturday, January 31st*
Santiago Oaks Regional Park
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

The Project WILD workshop provides participants with interactive
instructional strategies to make learning science fun! Activities have an
emphasis on wildlife and natural resources and are taught using
innovative techniques for teaching basic skills. Project WILD meets the
accepted criteria for environmental education and provides educators
with materials that support national, state, and district standards in
science, mathematics, language arts, social studies, and expressive arts.

*Project Learning Tree and PLT Greenworks! - Saturday, March 7th*
Santiago Oaks Regional Park
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

The Project Learning Tree workshop focuses on environmental education
activities that teach participants how to think, not what to think. Creative
strategies such as performing skits, creating murals, writing songs or
poems, and more are incorporated into the lessons. The content correlates
to national and state standards in science, social studies, language arts,
math, and other subjects - and strengthens critical thinking, team building,
and problem solving skills.

ITO also offers a Teacher Institute, please see attached documents for additional information.



California is cutting education funding at its own peril!
http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-oe-makdisi17-2008nov17,0,2283512.story

Teacher puts kids at center of parent conferences!
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/strand-parents-teacher-2238392-sarah-conference