| The Conference on Teacher Research Experiences set out to develop a foundation of best practices for TREs and to build a community of of professionals that engage in TREs. There is a clearly expressed need from the field for a coordination of efforts and a sharing of best practices among institutions and projects providing teacher research experiences for K-12 science educators. The University of Rhode Island Office of Marine Programs (OMP) received funding from the National Science Foundation to host a Conference on Teacher Research Experiences (CTRE) at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography in April, 2005. More than 100 participants from 30 TRE projects attended the three day conference. Participants included principle investigators, project directors and evaluators, teachers, scientists, and other professionals engaged in TREs. |
