Critical Issues Forum
Teacher Workshop 2006-2007

The CIF 2006 - 2007 Teacher Winter Workshop for participating CIF teachers was held December 7 - 9, 2006, in Monterey, California. A report on the CIF Teacher Workshop for 2006-2007 is available.

Teachers from ten schools in Russia plus the NCEIC (Nuclear Cities Education Information Center) were represented at the Workshop along with teachers from ten U.S. high schools, one college and NASA. Altogether, there were 28 participants in attendance for the workshop.

The agenda for the Teacher Workshop is available in the Russian language as a Microsoft Word file (translated by Olga Kovarzina).

The workshop began at 0830 Thursday, December 7, and ran through 1230 on Saturday, December 9. Presenters from CNS and NASA provided information about the topic "Outer Space: Next Frontier for Proliferation or Forum for Cooperation?” to the teacher participants to assist them in building their curricular approach to meet the CIF benchmarks for 2006-2007.

The teacher participants then returned to their respective schools to work with other CIF teachers and the students who are involved in the CIF project to develop their responses the the CIF 2006-2007 topic and benchmarks.

http://www.criticalissuesforum.org/wkshp_06.html
updated 18 January 2007