Savvy Cyber Teacher Summer Institute at Stevens, July 2004

HOBOKEN, N.J. - The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology will this July offer to teachers of K-12 math and science the Savvy Cyber Teacher Summer Institute, a week-long immersion program in how effectively to integrate the Internet and the latest in online curricula into the modern pre-college classroom.

For teachers in Grades K-5 and 6-8, the program will be offered July 19-23; for Grades 9-12, the program is offered July 26-30. All instruction takes place on the Stevens campus in Hoboken, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. To register online, please visit www.savvycyberteacher.org/registration.html

Savvy Cyber Teacher® is a 30-hour graduate-level course enabling teachers to use Internet-based resources to engage students in quantitative, inquiry-based science and mathematics projects in which they gather, download and analyze real-time and collaborative-based data in order to draw conclusions, discover scientific principles and, in effect, become real scientists.

"More than 8,000 teachers have participated in the Savvy Cyber Teacher training," said Meg Turner, Manager of District Outreach Programs at CIESE. "Independent evaluations by Harcourt Educational Measurement have shown positive impact on students' science and mathematics achievement and teachers' skills and pedagogy.

"In a study of selected classrooms," she said, "eighty-six percent of students showed noteworthy gains on the science and mathematics learning objectives. In addition, teachers reported spending less time lecturing; being more comfortable with small group activities; using more cooperative learning techniques; feeling better prepared to teach for different learning styles; being better teachers of problem-solving; and feeling more competent at presenting complex materials according to an external evaluator.)

For further information about the Summer Institute 2004, please contact Meg Turner at 201-216-5655, or visit www.savvycyberteacher.org.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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