Vol. 19, No. 36

July 20, 2000

Summer institutes present strategies to help

Delaware geography teachers

Fifteen Delaware teachers are participating in the two-week residential Alliance Summer Geography Institute through July 21. The Newark campus' Department of Geography was the location for the first week of the camp, and the group moved to the Virden Center for the second week of activities. The graduate course consists of geography content lectures given by Peter Rees, geography, teaching strategies tied to the Delaware Geography Standards and field work. Neil Webster of William Penn High School is director of the institute. Staff members include Terry Kopple, Sussex Academy Charter School; Mary Schoettinger, Star Hill Elementary School; and MaryAnna Taylor, project coordinator, Delaware Geographic Alliance. The Delaware Geographic Alliance also sponsored a Teaching Geography with Technology Institute from July 5-14 in Pearson Hall. Teachers who participated in that session learned how to use GIS software such as ArcVoyager, ArcView and Global Positioning Systems and became familiar with Internet sites that are pertinent to geography instruction. Eight Delaware teachers took part in that course, which was taught by Dawn Willis, Milford Middle School; and Jacqui Wilson, Smyrna Middle School. Technical adviser was Brent Thomas, a UD geography graduate student. For more information, call the Delaware Geographic Alliance at 831-6783.