How to Become
a Part of MARE
Interested in joining the MARE family? There are many levels
of participation and affiliation in the MARE experience. Learn more
about how to "dive
in." Feel free to contact
us for additional information on becoming part of the MARE program.
MARE Teachers
Teachers make MARE happen. MARE teachers deliver direct instruction
of the MARE curriculum and work as a team at their grade level to
coordinate their habitat specific Ocean Immersion experience. Team
teaching and peer coaching become standards of practice for teachers engaged
in the MARE model.
Most teachers enter MARE through whole-faculty
inservice,
a Habitat Workshop,
or through the intensive MARE
Summer
Leadership Institute.
Regardless of the venue, teachers receive
in-depth professional development in the MARE curriculum and hands-on,
inquiry-based science
pedagogy.
MARE Leaders
MARE leaders become site-coordinators for implementation of the MARE
curriculum and the Ocean Immersion program at their schools. Leaders
are teachers, parents, or adminstrators who have participated in
the MARE Summer Leadership Institute. This
training provides Leaders with the full scope and sequence of the
MARE curriculum, opportunities to learn and share ideas with other
MARE leaders, and tools to assist them in planning, scheduling,
and supporting their Ocean
Immersion program.
Being a MARE leader means assuming a role as catalyst for the school-wide
implementation of the MARE curriculum and Ocean Immersion experience.
MARE Leaders typically:
- Lead professional development for teachers at their school site
- Make presentations to parents about the Ocean Immersion program
and the positive impact of family involvement in school activities
- Organize an Ocean Festival or other school-wide events
- Facilitate grade level planning for teaching marine science activities
- Work closely with the school community to implement the Ocean
Immersion program
- Use the Web-tools for school planning, district planning, receiving
support from LHS staff, checking in about progress and accessing
resources for planning and implementing the program
MARE Leaders may assume roles beyond their own school and seek to
coordinate district-wide or larger regional dissemination of the MARE
program. These MARE Leaders (called MARE
Associates) are
affiliated with a MARE Center.
MARE Schools
A school that has adopted the MARE curriculum, sent participants
to the MARE Summer Leadership Institute, and implemented an Ocean
Immersion Program is considered a MARE School. There are currently
over 600
MARE schools in the USA and Mexico. Many MARE schools continue to
involve MARE staff in on-site professional development or in-class
modeling during their Ocean Immersion program.
MARE Schools can be independently administered, coordinated through
their districts, or served through a MARE Center.
Regardless of
their organization,
all MARE
Schools
enjoy connection to MARE and other schools through ongoing professional
development and the growing MARE network's e-mail
lists.
MARE Centers/MARE
Associates
The MARE program is administered throughout the USA and Mexico
by six regional MARE Centers:
- The Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley,CA
- Rutgers Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, NJ
- University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Texas
- Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Oregon
- Eureka School District, CA
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CA
Each Center has received training and support from MARE at the
Lawrence Hall of Science. These Centers remain closely affiliated
with the LHS MARE program, and provide professional development
to teachers
in their respective communities.
A MARE Center is ideally located at a college/university, marine
biological laboratory, or an aquarium/museum or other informal science
center. Each MARE center is staffed by MARE Associates (MARE Leaders
who have assumed roles beyond their individual schools or institutions)
who implement their own MARE professional development workshops and
Summer Leadership Institutes.
Contact us for information on your nearest MARE Center or for information
on becoming a MARE Center.
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