Come join us to see how OpenSciEd’s materials can help you reveal your
students’ brilliance. This professional learning institute will simultaneously
prepare you to teach the first unit in the OpenSciEd middle school program and
provide the support you need to advance your practice so that learning is both
driven by student questions and leads to the foundational science learning they
need to be successful. To do this, this session will put teachers in the
student’s seat so they can feel what it's like to be a student whose thoughts
and questions are valued in the drive to figure out puzzling phenomena. We
actually do science together with the facilitator acting as the "teacher" and
then dig in to see the coherence across the program and the details in the first
units of OpenSciEd’s program.
In the morning, coaches, admin, and teachers will be together. In the
afternoon, teachers will keep digging into the materials and instructional
coaches or administrators will have the option to move to a breakout room to
learn more about the tools and resources that are available to support teachers
in impactful implementation.
TAKEAWAYS:
How OpenSciEd's free and publicly available instructional materials and professional learning can make a district's vision for science education a reality.
SPEAKERS:
Thomas Clayton (K-5 STEAM Specialist: Berkeley Heights, NJ), Heather Galbreath (Lombard Middle School: Galesburg, IL), Renee Affolter (OpenSciEd: No City, No State), Alicia Wedderburn (Science Instructional Coach: , MA)