FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Cheryl Smith, program associate, College of Natural Sciences, (319) 273-6809
Gwenne Culpepper, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
CEDAR FALLS—A group of 20 elementary school science teachers from Chile is spending six weeks on the University of Northern Iowa campus as part of a major education reform effort in that country.
The teachers, who arrived Sunday, will be on campus until Nov. 11. During their stay, they will learn about teaching strategies that support active learning, as well as physical science lessons and life science lessons that use that approach. They will observe these strategies being used in classrooms at Price Laboratory School.
Carmen Montecinos, UNI professor of education and project director, said the teachers also will learn methods of teaching science that help the learner build meaning from engaging in hands-on and minds-on experiences. “This inquiry approach has been found to be very effective in the teaching of science,” said Montecinos.
This is the third year UNI has participated in the program. David Christensen, UNI associate professor of education, is coordinator.
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