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The GeoGebra Institute of Ithaca is committed to help individual teachers to learn GeoGebra, use it in their classroom and encourage their students to use it as a tool to understand mathematics in a meaningful way that make sense to them.

Here is a link to an application survey for teachers who are interested to explore this direction. Currently the Ithaca GeoGebra Institute is giving two kinds of certificates: a user certificate and an expert certificate.

The requirements for the user certificates are:

1. Complete the three on line workshops: Workshop 1: Getting started with GeoGebra Workshop 2: Using GeoGebra in the Classroom Workshop 3: GeoGebra Interactivities (the workshops were designed by Linda Stojanovska and there are live illuminate sessions (links) that can help go through them. There will be opportunities to receive ample of help on line. When the teacher feels they are ready to receive the user GeoGebra certificate an interview with a trainer will be set up (on line) and by the end of the interview it will be determined if the the certificate can be awarded or if more work needs to be done.

The requirements for the expert certificate are 1. Be certified as a GeoGebra User. 2. To create an online portfolio that will include examples of the expert knowledge. Examples of things that could be included in the portfolio are:
 * 1) Example of how you use GeoGebra with your students
 * 2) Examples of workshops or teaching situations that you gave to local (or non local) teachers
 * 3) Pedagogical insights and reflections related to the use of GeoGebra and related tools.

3. To Give a 1 hour web presentation to live audience that will be well prepared and may or may not include the online portfolio. We forsee that many web presentations will be done through mathfuture 4. Turn 3 other math teachers (when this is practically doable) to GeoGebra