Teacher Training

Connecting Oceans Academy is an innovative professional development program that offers supportive training opportunities in the sciences, arts and other related disciplines. Participants receive support and guidance from the Center for University, School, and Community Partnerships (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth), as well as specialist educators, scientists, historians and scholars.

To download full program descriptions and applications for courses currently being offered, please click on the links below:


Spring 2010

ART and SCIENCE

Drawn to the Sea: Art, Science and the Nature of Seeing >>
Content Institute (15 PDP course)

We are confronted with many things to look at every day, but true seeing requires an attentive frame of mind that is open to delight while welcoming the unexpected. As an artistic pursuit, learning to truly see promotes a deeper appreciation for the world around us while cultivating the deep importance of firsthand experience. The act of drawing calls us to consider the personal meaning of that which we take the time and energy to see. In this course, participants will engage in observational and contemplative drawing as they come to better know artifacts and life forms of the sea from both artistic and scientific perspectives.  Participants will keep sketchbook journals and learn various means for portraying both the seen and the felt world.

Join us on three Saturdays in May with a different artist / educator each week as we explore the links among Art, Science and the Sea. May 8, 15 and 22, from 8:30am to 2pm

HISTORY: LANGUAGE ARTS

Maritime Heritage of African American and Cape Verdeans on the Atlantic Coasts >>
Content Institute (15 PDP course)

Maritime Heritage of African Americans and Cape Verdeans on the Atlantic Coasts is a History and Language Arts Program that will introduce the contributions of African Americans and Cape Verdeans to the Maritime Trades in New England and along the Atlantic Coasts. Wednesdays, March 17, 24 and 31, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm. Saturday, March 20, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

SOCIAL STUDIES

Maritime History of New England and the Atlantic World- Part II
(Graduate Gourse)  This course is already in session.

A broad survey of the maritime history of New England continues with the spectrum of human seaborne enterprise and the development of a sea-based economy along the North Atlantic Coast. Themes include colonization, shipbuilding, fisheries and whaling, ports as cosmopolitan cultural frontiers, mercantilism, piracy, privateering, commercial links to the Atlantic slave trade and development of global trading networks.