The Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) is the Alabama Department of Education's initiative to improve math and science teaching statewide. AMSTI trains teachers to deliver science and mathematics instruction through experiential, hands-on, minds-on approaches. The Alabama Department of Education has worked closely with the University of Alabama in Huntsville GLOBE Partnership over the last five years to develop activities that incorporate GLOBE within AMSTI. The resulting AMSTI-GLOBE model provides sound environmental awareness to teachers and students in Grades K-8 throughout Alabama.
The major goals for AMSTI-GLOBE are:
1. Continue summer teacher trainings in math and science until all K-8 teachers in Alabama have been trained in the GLOBE protocols;
2. Provide ongoing local support for all GLOBE trained teachers through the AMSTI specialists;
3. Provide GLOBE training to preservice teachers at the 10 institutions of higher education that are AMSTI sites; and
4. Share information and resources from GLOBE with the K-8 teachers in Alabama.

U.S. Partner Coordinator Robin Nelson, Jerry Cobbs, Lynn Vaughan AMSTI-GLOBECo-Directors AlabamaDepartment of Education AlabamaMath, Science & Technology Initiative AMSTI - GLOBE 3339Gordon Person Building P.O.Box 302101 Montgomery, AL 36130-2101 Telephone : (334) 353-9893 Fax : (334) 353-7139 Email : globe@amsti.org

Training Point-of-Contact Lynn Vaughan GLOBE Resource Specialist National Space Science Technology Center AMSTI - GLOBE 440 Eagle Pointe Drive Pell City, AL 35128 Telephone : (205) 814-1330 Email : lynn@amsti.org

Further Information Alabama Department of Education Web site : http://www.alsde.edu/html/home.asp AMSTI Web site : http://www.amsti.org/ Status of the GLOBE Program at AMSTI - GLOBE (Last Updated 2007)

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