CASE Director of Training, Dr. Nancy Priselac, serves as the contact for all CASE teacher training efforts. Dr. Priselac has developed customized one-day orientations and two-to-five-day training programs. Four areas of concentration have been identified for training:

• MWM module and STEM content knowledge growth
  
• Inquiry-and design-based teaching using the MWM modules
  
• Technology uses to support the inquiry-and design-based classroom
  
• Mathematics necessary to support inquiry-and-design content and process

Training programs prepare teachers to implement inductive teaching through inquiry-and-design methodologies using a variety of tools, including such STEM learning modules as Materials World Modules (MWM), developed at Northwestern University.  The five training foci are: content knowledge, skill sets, research experience, communication, and digital technology interwoven into the STEM classroom. CASE has trained STEM teachers and scientists and engineers in states across the country:

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2008 Summer Teacher Training Institutes

This year, CASE has created a plan for three-weeks of summer institutes at Garrett College in McHenry, Maryland (near Deep Creek Lake). Institute dates are three consecutive weeks in July:  6-11, 13-18 and 20-25. Training will begin Sunday evenings and have a Monday-Friday format. Lodging and additional meeting space will be conducted at the Wisp Resort. Promotional flyers containing detailed information are attached. 

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