MARE: a whole-school interdisciplinary science program developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science offering year-round professional development opportunities, including events that immerse your whole school - faculty, students and families-in the study and celebration of the ocean.
New Jersey MARE Regional Training Center
The Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University has been a MARE Regional Training Center since 1995. Starting with Robert Hunter School in Hunterdon County, MARE has been implemented in over 50 schools in New Jersey, providing hundreds of educators with the skills to practice interdisciplinary learning in creative and innovative ways with over 20,000 students.
Top Five Reasons Your School Should Adopt the MARE Program in New Jersey
MARE is taught by leading educators and scientists from New Jersey's state university. The program is fun, informative, and uses lessons and resources to effectively communicate the nature of science to K-5 students.
- Teacher professional development and curriculum focus on the integration of literacy with science. MARE offerings emphasize language acquisition and development techniques for including English language learners.
- MARE is a whole school program, allowing a school to create positive change across grade level and even within the community. With a relatively small amount of support and facilitation, school sites can become powerful agents of grass roots educational change. MARE has documented surprising improvements in teacher collaboration and collegiality and school climate and culture in schools using the program.
- The program is aligned with and supports the New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards for math, science, language arts literacy, social studies, arts, and physical education. Rutgers has done extensive independent evaluation on the impacts of MARE.
- Teachers at MARE schools can use the thematic program at their own pace throughout the year as a vehicle to coordinate and integrate their science instruction in the school. At each grade level, MARE focuses on a different marine habitat and provides inquiry-based, hands-on activities, covering an integrated treatment of earth & physical science.
2008 Professional Development Opportunity
We are delighted to offer the 2008 MARE Summer Leadership Institute with the support of the Geraldine R Dodge Foundation, the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, and Rutgers University. Join us for this exciting opportunity to participate in classroom and field experiences in a variety of New Jersey's marine and coastal habitats. Go boating on Barnegat Bay and get up close and personal with a variety or marine critters, while learning how to use the marine environment to teach inquiry and the nature of science in your classroom.
Daily instruction includes a fascinating array or hands-on activities from the MARE curriculum and leadership activities delivered by a talented group of educators, scientists, and storytellers. Participants receive the MARE curriculum, an inquiry-driven grade-level specific, standards-based teacher's guide appropriate for all students, in addition to an absolute boat load of high quality supplemental materials including trade books and classroom manipulatives that equip you to teach your students about the ocean.
WHEN: August 10-15, 2008
WHERE: Jacques Cousteau Coastal Education Center, Tuckerton, NJ
WHO: K-6 classroom teachers, and/or administrators
COST: This Summer Program will be underwritten by educational grants obtained by the Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University
School cost share: $250/educator (commuter); $350/educator (residential) for the week
Participating teachers will receive:
- $300 in materials
- Breakfast, lunch & some dinners
- Professional training and curriculum development guidance
Participating teachers are expected to:
- Coordinate their whole school conduct an Ocean Week
- Assist IMCS staff in conducting faculty in-service for your school's staff
This year's training has been especially designed for veteran schools as well as new schools wishing to join our MARE family.
Please contact Janice at
(732 932 6555 x521)
or Melanie Reding (609 812 0649 x206) for information on how you can participate. Participants selected on a first come first serve basis.
Resources
MARE is supported by the Geraldine
R Dodge Foundation
