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ALL ABOUT
MINING!
“A Total Concept of the Mining Industry”
This is a rigorous four-week course offered for
Classroom
teachers
Counselors
Administrators
who work with students in kindergarten
through high school.
The Colorado
Mining Association Education Foundation, Inc. sponsors
the program in early summer each year in cooperation with the Colorado
School of Mines Office of Special Programs and Continuing Education.
More than 1,400 educators from Colorado, throughout the United
States, and
overseas have completed the course during its
39-year history.
It all happens on
the campus of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. In a
comprehensive
program of classroom instruction you’ll learn all about the
modern mining industry. You’ll gain a powerful portfolio of
authoritative, useful information
you can use every day in your classroom. Graduate from the course with a select
set of lesson plans, developed by the course participants, that you can apply in
your classroom this fall! Have a valuable journal of your memories and
impressions written in the classroom and on exciting field trips, to which you
can refer in your future years of teaching.
A dedicated faculty of more than seventy-five skilled industry professionals
lead intensive classroom sessions designed to provide teachers with a broad
understanding of this important American industry, plus knowledge and access to
resources you can use in teaching your students about mining’s vital role in
America’s future. Each session also provides ample opportunity for informative
give-and-take interaction with the presenters. To complement campus classroom
instruction, you’ll participate in more than a dozen exciting hands-on visits to
operating laboratories, mines and quarries.
Graduate from the course with a select set of lesson plans, developed by
course participants, that you can apply in your classroom this fall! Have a
valuable journal of your memories and impressions written in the classroom and
on exciting field trips, to which you can refer in your future years of
teaching.
Only a limited number of teachers can be accepted into the
program each year.
The program is rigorous and demanding. If accepted, you will be
expected to participate fully in classroom sessions and planned field trip
activities. Upon successful
completion, you’ll
be awarded a graduation certificate. You also will earn six
semester hours of
graduate-level re-certification credit from the Colorado School
of Mines.
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Field
Trips
Upcoming Course Dates
June 23 - July 18, 2008
“THE EARTH BENEATH US”
An
informative ten-minute video that shows you the idea behind the Course, and how the
learning program all fits together to help you in the classroom.
(video available soon)
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