GSS Teacher Guides...are available as web pages on a special GSS Teacher site. The Teacher Guides have many additional Investigations with pages you can copy and provide your students. The Teacher Guides explain:
Since they have some material not intended for students, we restrict access to the GSS Teacher site, but you may gain access for free by sending a message requesting such access to Alan Gould: ![]() Professional Development OverviewProfessional development for Global Systems Science teachers began with summer institutes in 1993, 1994, and 1995. You may read an excellent overview of the principles and philosophy of those institutes, written by the first GSS Director, Cary Sneider, as an illustration of an exemplary professional development program for a landmark 1998 book on professional development by Susan Loucks-Horsley, Peter W. Hewson, Nancy Love, and Katherine E. Stiles: Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics. Read specifically Resource D: Global Systems Science: A Professional Development Program for High School Teachers (pages 289–294 of the 1998 edition) Lifelines for High School Climate Change Education
The project was designed with a cascading effect, recruiting and training 20 climate change education teacher leaders who then form the PLCs comprised of 15 high school science teachers, for a total of 320 teachers involved in the project.
GSS ConferenceView the proceedings from the 2003 GSS Conference in Philadelphia.
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