Science Inquiry
Date: 08/26/09 Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Non-Member Fee: $190 Member Fee: $90 Fee includes lunch, resource book, & handouts Using Julia Cothron’s 4-Question Strategy and Experimental Design Template, participants will learn strategies to enhance student understanding of the components of the MAP Performance Event Template. Resource book, Science Experiments by the Hundreds, Third Edition by Julia Cothron, is included in workshop fee.
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Thinking Like a Scientist: Performance Events and Inquiry For Grades 6-8
Date: 08/25/09 Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Member Fee: $100 Non-Member Fee: $200 Fee includes lunch and handouts Results from performance events show that students seem to understand what they are doing in a laboratory situation without understanding “why”. Learn how to improve student process skills and student understanding of inquiry-based experiments. Help your students to conduct research like a scientist! To register for this workshop go to: Registration is closed for this workshop. Math Notebooking Date: 09/30/09 Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Member Fee: $50 Non-Member Fee: $150 Fee includes lunch and handouts Learn how students use notebooks to share ideas, support their ideas, and improve their literacy skills as well. This workshop is aligned with the GLEs and will benefit your students as they prepare for standardized testing. To register for this workshop go to: http://www.successlink.org/registration/Curriculum_Assessment-Workshops/MathNotebooking930.asp
Thinking Like a Scientist: Performance Events and Inquiry For Grades 9-12
Date: 09/22/09 Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Member Fee: $100 Non-Member Fee: $200 Fee includes lunch and handouts Results from performance events show that students seem to understand what they are doing in a laboratory situation without understanding “why”. Learn how to improve student process skills and student understanding of inquiry-based experiments. Help your students to conduct research like a scientist! To register for this workshop go to: http://www.successlink.org/registration/Curriculum_Assessment-Workshops/ThinkingScientist912.asp Math Notebooking Date: 09/30/09 Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Member Fee: $50 Non-Member Fee: $150 Fee includes lunch and handouts Learn how students use notebooks to share ideas, support their ideas, and improve their literacy skills as well. This workshop is aligned with the GLEs and will benefit your students as they prepare for standardized testing. To register for this workshop go to: http://www.successlink.org/registration/Curriculum_Assessment-Workshops/MathNotebooking930.asp
Teaching Reading in the Content Areas Date: 10/07/09 Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Member Fee: $70 Non-Member Fee: $170 Fee includes lunch, resource book, & handouts Attendees will have an increased awareness of the importance of teaching reading in content areas by focusing on reading and vocabulary strategies. This workshop will focus on children’s literature (fiction and nonfiction) and integration with other content areas. Resource book Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who? by Rachel Billmeyer and Mary Lee Barton, is included in the workshop fee. To register for this workshop go to: http://www.successlink.org/registration/Curriculum_Assessment-Workshops/TeachReadingContentAreas107.asp
Curriculum Review Date: 10/20/09 Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Member Fee: $70 Non-Member Fee: $170 Fee includes lunch and handouts Explore the MSIP curriculum review process with a member of the review team. The team member will share her experiences and will lead you through a review of a district’s curriculum. This workshop is a hands-on exercise in curriculum review and will be followed with a question-and-answer session. To register for this workshop go to: http://www.successlink.org/registration/Curriculum_Assessment-Workshops/CurriculumReview1020.asp Picture-Perfect Science Lessons Date: 10/28/09 Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Member Fee: $105 Non-Member Fee: $205 Fee includes lunch, resource book, & handouts This session demonstrates how to integrate subjects by using children’s literature to teach science concepts. Participants will engage in hands-on science activities relating to the literature books. Resource book, Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry by Karen Rohrich Ansberry and Emily Morgan, is included in the workshop fee. To register for this workshop go to: http://www.successlink.org/registration/Curriculum_Assessment-Workshops/PicturePerfect1028.asp
What Are You Thinking? Formative Assessment in Science For Grades 6-8 Date: 11/10/09 Member Fee: $100 Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Non-Member Fee: $200 Fee includes lunch and handouts Location: SuccessLink office To be able to assist our students in their learning journey, teachers must know what the student is thinking. This workshop focuses on how to assess where our students are throughout the learning process, and determine the next steps. Formative assessment probes, preconceptions, note-booking techniques, Socratic dialog, student involvement in assessment, and exit tickets are used as tools in science classes to find out “What are you thinking?” To register for this workshop go to http://www.successlink.org/registration/Curriculum_Assessment-Workshops/WhatThinking68.asp
What Are You Thinking? Formative Assessment in Science For Grades 9-12 Date: 12/08/09 Member Fee: $100 Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Non-Member Fee: $200 Fee includes lunch and handouts Location: SuccessLink office To be able to assist our students in their learning journey, teachers must know what the student is thinking. This workshop focuses on how to assess where our students are throughout the learning process, and determine the next steps. Formative assessment probes, preconceptions, note-booking techniques, Socratic dialog, student involvement in assessment, and exit tickets are used as tools in science classes to find out “What are you thinking?” To register for this workshop go to: http://www.successlink.org/registration/Curriculum_Assessment-Workshops/WhatThinking912.asp
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