Welcome to the website of the 2015
EvoS Summer Institute! This website is designed to provide you with information
regarding the schedule of events, instructional personnel, and contact
information. If at any point you’ve got questions about any element of the
Institute, please contact the Director, Glenn Geher. Mission of the Institute The Institute is designed as an effort to help current and future teachers master the breadth of content needed to effectively teach about evolution in a secondary-education curriculum. With the new “common core” standards, evolution and its many elements are now considered essential components of the science curriculum. We want to help our teachers be best prepared to effectively teach this material to the next generation of students. Funded by the National Science Foundation, SUNY New Paltz’s Evolutionary Studies program includes more than 10 PhD-level faculty who teach dozens of classes related to evolution across the curriculum. These faculty have published articles and books related to evolution that have earned national and international acclaim – and these faculty have a strong reputation on campus and beyond for focusing on cultivating student learning as a primary feature of their work. In short, the EvoS Faculty at New Paltz are highly qualified evolutionists with international reputations in scholarship and proven dedication and effectiveness in the domain of teaching. * 45-hour program leading to 3 15-hour-based CEUs (satisfactory for salary advancement in most districts!) or a 34-hour version (leading to 2 15-h0ur-based CEU credits). * Cost is $450 for the 45-hour, full week of coursework (and it includes lunch, provided by the Institute on 4 of the 5 days) OR $400 for the 34-hour, four-day version. * Successful participants have the option to buy SUNY New Paltz CEUs for $25 per credit. * Successful graduates of the program will receive a certificate of completion demarcating “Successful Completion of SUNY New Paltz’s Evolutionary Studies Summer Institute.” The curriculum includes the following:
Faculty of the Institute: Glenn Geher, PhD, Professor of Psychology; Director of Evolutionary Studies Aaron Isabelle, PhD, Associate Professor of Childhood and Early Education Kenneth Nystrom, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology Spencer Mass, MD, Lecturer of Biology Tom Nolen, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology Jeffrey Reinking, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology Hamilton Stapell, PhD, Associate Professor of History LOCATIONS: Old Main (OM) 234 Schedule of Events
Parking Please note that there is a $20 fee for a summer parking pass. Or you can purchase day passes (info also found at that site) for $2/day. OR you can (suggested) park for free on nearby side roads such as Ridge Road, South Oakwood, or Orchard Lane (see HERE). Note that JFT is adjacent to the Humanities Building. .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... For information about the international Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) Consortium that we developed here at New Paltz (in collaboration with faculty at Binghamton), please check out www.evostudies.org. This site includes freely available articles from the peer-reviewed EvoS Journal along with the world’s largest database of free-and-streaming videos related to evolution. All students of the Institute will receive a full print copy of a special issue of EvoS Journal dedicated to issues of evolution in education. Also, all participants will have access to a special google folder which houses the PowerPoints and other materials specific to the Institute. If at any point you’ve got questions about any element of the Institute, please contact the Director, Glenn Geher. Special thanks to Nicole Wedberg, assistant to the Institute, and Meredith Seigel, special assistant to the Institute, for their assistance in putting this all together. Thanks also go to Helise Winters and the office of Continued Learning, along with the following sponsoring agencies: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Honors Program, School of Education, and the Mohonk Preserve |