The National Council for Geographic Education invites you to apply to participate in a new project in support of Advanced Placement* Human Geography (APHG). With funding from the National Geographic Society Education Foundation, the first of three summer workshops will be held in Eugene, Oregon on July 14-17, 2005, followed by a 100% online teacher prep course offered in the fall term by the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon.

Accommodations and meals for the 25 workshop participants will be covered by the grant. Participants will also receive stipends for completing the workshop and course. The participants will be asked to cover the course tuition ($55 per credit hour for the one credit workshop and three credit online course) and the cost of traveling to Oregon. Travel support may be available from participants’ schools and some state Geographic Alliances will cover travel costs for participants from their individual states. In return, each sponsored participant will conduct a workshop for his/her Alliance in order to share information about the online course and its prospects for training more teachers to offer APHG. Please contact your Alliance Coordinator or NCGE (ncge@ncge.org) to see whether your Alliance is able to sponsor travel costs. If travel support is not available from the participant's school or allianse, please contact the NCGE Central Office for other sources of travel funding.

We have attached additional information about the summer workshop and the web-based APHG teacher prep course and an application packet. Please complete all forms in the application packet and return by June 1, 2005, to:

Dr. Susan Hardwick
Department of Geography
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403

Please consider applying for this unique opportunity to become a well-trained APHG teacher! And do feel free to contact the Oregon workshop coordinator and online course instructor, Susan Hardwick (susanh@uoregon.edu; 541-346-4557), if you have questions about your application or would like to learn more about the project.

• Application_Packet-Web.pdf: A cover letter to applicants with a check list of what needs to be submitted.
• AP_Applicant_Profile-Web.pdf: The application form
• Letter_to_principal-web.pdf: An optional letter addressed to the applicant's principal outlining the project and what we are asking the school to do for the teacher.
• Letter_to_Alliance_Coordinator-web.pdf: An optional letter addressed to the Alliance Coordinator asking for travel support.
• School_Offer_APHG_Form-Web.pdf: The form that the applicant's principal must coomplete. This form is to be submitted by the applicant with the packet.
• Tuition_&_Travel_Support_from_School-Web.pdf: The form for school officials to complete, indicating they will provide tuition and/or travel support.
• Travel_Support_from_Alliance-Web.pdf: Form for Alliance Coordinator to complete indicating Alliance support for travel expenses. This form is to be submitted by the applicant with the packet.