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Geography Academy
A&M, SWT offer joint course for teachers
By Susan Maguire
The Battalion
Texas A&M and Southwest
Texas State University received a
$409,000 joint grant from the U.S.
Department of Education this fall
to fund a summer geography
academy for teachers.
The grant, one of 18 nation
wide, created the Governor's Ge
ography Academy for Teachers.
Gov. Ann Richards endorsed the
joint proposal last summer.
Next summer, the Texas
A&M/Southwest State academy
will offer 40 Texas teachers a four-
week training period in geograph
ic education. Participants will be
at Southwest for the first two
weeks and at A&M for the last
two weeks.
Dr. Robert Bednarz, an associ
ate professor of geography for
A&M and co-director of the acade
my, said the course will concen
trate on leadership skills and staff
development.
"We will try to get people to
convey what they learned here to
their colleagues," Bednarz said.
"We want to spread our net a little
wider."
The teachers will be required
to conduct three in-service ses
sions for their colleagues after
they complete the course, Bednarz
said. If each participant reaches
600 teachers who teach 100 stu
dents apiece, then approximately
60,000 students will benefit, he
said.
Bednarz said he expects more
than 200 applicants for the 40 posi
tions, and those chosen will repre
sent a geographical, ethnic and
grade-level mix.
Bednarz said this program is
different than previous geography
programs at A&M because it is the
first joint program that A&M has
been involved in and four differ
ent departments will be involved.
Both A&M's and Southwest's
geography departments and edu
cational instruction departments
will be involved, he said.
Also, this course is different,
he said, because it will involve the
largest group of teachers and will
last longer than the other pro
grams A&M has offered.
"Usually, there are 30 teachers
involved, and the classes last three
weeks," he said.
Dr. Lynn Burlbaw, an A&M
assistant professor for the Depart
ment of Education Curriculum
and Instruction, said he will do
evaluations of the academy's
progress.
Next fall, he said, evaluators
will go to the participants' classes
and in-services to see if they are
properly teaching what they have
learned.
"We want to see if their teach
ing is changing and if the students
are learning geography better,"
Burlbaw said.
He said this program will be
different from the others because
the classroom visits have never
been done before.
"We used to send question
naires, but we've never had in
school follow-ups," he said.
In Advance
Researcher to discuss AIDS vims
Dr. Dorothy Lewis will speak on the patholo
gy of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS) virus at the Biomedical Science Associa
tion meeting scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in 701
Rudder.
Lewis, an associate professor at the Baylor
College of Medicine, will discuss the causes of
AIDS and its methods of transmission.
She conducts research which looks at the his
tory of AIDS as well as the course the disease
takes as infection progresses.
Richard W. Bailey, a doctoral student at Bay
lor, will join Lewis during the presentation.
Forum focuses on student development
The Texas A&M administration is encourag
ing students to express their points of view at the
second University Forum from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
today in 601 Rudder.
The University Forum, second of five sched
uled for this academic year, will focus on "Stu
dent Development: The Other Education."
The forum is open to anyone, although stu
dent leaders are strongly encouraged to attend
since the forum deals with student leadership
and student-life support. The majority of time
will be devoted to audience discussion.
Deadline for tech-writing entries ends today
Submissions for a technical paper contest are
due by noon today in 238 Zachry.
Technical papers may be on any subject. For
example, past entries have included pieces on a
book, a co-op experience or any papers a student
has written previously.
Cash prizes will be awarded for first, second
and third places. Winners of the first two places
will represent A&M's student chapter of the In
stitute of Industrial Engineering at the district
conference in Spring '92 in Oklahoma. Travel ex
penses will be paid for by the student organiza
tion.
Papers can be worked on before going to the
district conference. For more information, call
Jeana at 847-7491.
The CLASS OF '91 Proudly Presents
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Monument
to the Students and Alumni of
Texas A&M University
You are invited to view the monument prior to
the December 3rd Silver Taps
Located in the circular flower bed in front of the
Academic Building
A formal dedication of this and other CLASS of '91
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