TLRBSE 2005 Visit to Kitt Peak Observatory

TLRBSE: Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education: as defined by the TLRBSE website itself,
"TLRBSE is a Teacher Enhancement Program funded by the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Education and Human Resources. TLRBSE seeks to retain and renew middle and high school teachers of science by integrating the best practices of Research Based Science Education with the process of mentoring. Participants are provided training in astronomy content, pedagogy and leadership skills. In the appealing context of astronomy, the TLRBSE program develops master teachers in research based science education and prepares them as leaders to mentor learning colleagues in this exemplary method."

Each spring, the current year's group of TLRBSE science teachers takes an online course through the University of Arizona. Those who successfully complete the course are then invited to spend a two week session in Tucson, Arizona with one week on top of Kitt Peak using the various instruments in a true research format. The results of the work are then presented at the end of the two week period.

The group I was in consisted of the following individuals:

• Travis Rector: Team lead and professor at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
• John Blackwell: myself, a teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH.
• Dorian Janney: Watkins Mill High School, Gaithersburg, MD.
• Brad Kapsner: Cathedral High School, St. Cloud, MN.
• Glenn Reagan: Cordova High School, Rancho Cordova, CA.
• Phillip Scott: McAlester Public School, McAlester, OK.

Instead of presenting a huge web page with descriptions of our work, I have placed links to our presentation and to the many images we took while we were in Arizona.

Research Project of the Active Galactic Nuclei Group This is a PowerPoint presentation best viewed with MSIE.

Trip Photo Journal

NOAO Press Release about TLRBSE 2005 and Supernova in M-51

Pretty Pictures We Took While There

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