2009 K–12 Educator Forum (High School)
Course Overview
ECOL 596s is structured as a 2-unit graduate course with discussion, lecture and activities on the teaching of life sciences in a high school classroom. The course is focused around an evening speaker series offered through the College of Science.
Teacher-participants meet once a week for three hours in the evening. In the first hour the class participates in an activity for teaching science in a high school science classroom or a presentation on a K–12 outreach opportunity at the UA. In the second hour the class attends the College of Science Next: Science that Transforms lecture. The third hour consists of discussion of the lecture and its application to the high school classroom.
This course is structured for science teachers at the 6–12 grade level, but K–12 teachers at all levels are invited to participate. Pre-service teachers who are not yet certified may also take the course and earn undergraduate credit. Teachers earn two units of graduate credit.
For More Information
- Contact John Pollard
- jpollard@email.arizona.edu
- 520-621-8843
To Register
- Contact Continuing Education and Academic Outreach
- 520-621-7724
- Enrollment is limited.
Tuition and Fees
100% tuition and fees (two units) are paid by the College of Science through funding provided by Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
Location and Time
Classes meet in the Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Building, Room 223. Classes run from 6:00–9:00 pm each Tuesday evening from January 20 to March 17. Parking is available in the Tyndall Avenue Garage.
View map to the FCS building
View map to Tyndall Avenue Garage
Educator Series
- Tuesday, January 20
- Three-hour class
- Tuesday, January 27
- Next: An Enormous Picture of the Universe
- John Schaefer, UA President Emeritus and President of LSST Corporation
- Tuesday, February 3
- Next: Unlocking the Mystery of Matter
- Elliott Cheu, Professor of Physics
- Tuesday, February 10
- Next: A Great Leap for Bioresearch
- Vicki Chandler, Regents' Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Director of Bio5 Institute
- Tuesday, February 17
- Next: Darwin's Strange Inversion of Reasoning
- Daniel Dennett, Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
- Tuesday, March 3
- Next: Visualizing Human Thought
- Elena Plante, Professor and Head of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
- Tuesday, March 10
- Next: Really Intelligent Computers
- Paul Cohen, Professor and Head of Computer Science
- Tuesday, March 17
- Three-hour class
