CEDAR FALLS, IA–Attention teachers! Monday, May 27 is the deadline to enroll in a one-hour, graduate-level, professional development course offered by University of Northern Iowa.
Teachers are encouraged to sign up for The Environment and The Way We Live: Our Choices Impact Everyone's Future, to be held June 17 and 18 at EB Lyons Nature Center in Dubuque, with a follow-up Nov. 9 at the Swiss Valley Nature Center, about five miles west of Dubuque.
Tuition is $50. In addition to one hour of graduate credit, teachers will receive $65 in resources to use in their classrooms. Signup and other details are online at http://www.ceee.uni.edu/
Teachers in Scott County who successfully complete the course will have tuition reimbursed by Waste Commission of Scott County. Other Iowa solid waste agencies will reimburse tuition for teachers in the counties of Clayton, Dubuque, Delaware, Howard, Linn and Winneshiek, as well as the Postville School District.
The workshop will be held 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. June 17 and 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. June 18. The follow-up workshop will be held 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Nov. 9.
The courses are offered through Curriculum and Instruction and the Center for Energy and Environmental Education at UNI.
For more information, contact Susan Salterberg, instructor, at (319) 337-4816 or salterberg@uni.edu.
UNI is able to offer the graduate credit, free books and lesson plans with funding support from the Resource Enhancement and Protection Conservation Education Program and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Solid Waste Alternatives Program. Other supporters include solid waste agencies, landfills, and the East Central Iowa Council of Governments.# # #
