Academies & Institutes
For more information on our institutes and academies, click on the link below.
Jumping Hurdles & Raising the
Bar Toward Achieving Excellence in Science
Registration time: 8:30 am
Registration fees:
One Day Institute - $150 ($125 for Texas ASCD members)
Two Day Academy - $295 ($249 for Texas ASCD members)
Dates and Locations:
December 1st, 2008
Mansfield ISD (Dallas/Ft. Worth area)- with focus on Elementary - Grades 2-5
Mary Lillard Intermediate - 1301 North Day Miar - Mansfield, TX 76063 - (817)276-6260
SORRY - COMPLETELY FILLED
Contact us to schedule this workshop in your area at 512-477-8200 x 10.
Quotes:
Fantastic! Best training / workshop I've been to in a long time!
Excellent preparation, excellent connection to real world classroom and test experiences.
Unbelievably awesome! I can't say enough - easy to reproduce with readily available supplies. Great ideas to enhance lessons that don't require a complete 180 degree turn from how I am teaching now.
Summary:
Are you tired and overworked trying to teach basic science concepts to students? Are your students having trouble memorizing and understanding science processes? Join us for an invigorating motivational workshop packed with strategies, hands-on lab activities, powerful manipulatives, models and experiments to clear the hurdles of student disinterest and the lack of understanding of how science works. Successful learning requires that students have a deep understanding of how the life sciences and physical sciences work together, in addition to their real world applications. Exactly how do matter and energy interact?
Using the 5E Instructional Model, participants will be guided to take an in-depth look at the physical and chemical properties of matter (density, solubility, viscosity, polarity, pH, electrolysis, the electromagnetic spectrum, acid rain, greenhouse effect, etc.) and how they relate to the biology of life. In addition, strategies to conquer intervention tutoring and raise student benchmark and TAKS performance will be addressed. Please join us in raising the bar in Science Education!
Participant Take-Home Lab Manipulatives for immediate use in the classroom include: solid, liquid, gas models, pH model, food chain/biomass model, gas law-lung-diaphragm model, flame test manipulative, diffraction grating glasses, in addition to the 5E lab activities.
Presenters: Gloria Chatelain
and Courtney Williams
Workshop Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pmRegistration time: 8:30 am
Registration fees:
One Day Institute - $150 ($125 for Texas ASCD members)
Two Day Academy - $295 ($249 for Texas ASCD members)
Dates and Locations:
December 1st, 2008
Mansfield ISD (Dallas/Ft. Worth area)- with focus on Elementary - Grades 2-5
Mary Lillard Intermediate - 1301 North Day Miar - Mansfield, TX 76063 - (817)276-6260
SORRY - COMPLETELY FILLED
Contact us to schedule this workshop in your area at 512-477-8200 x 10.
Quotes:
Fantastic! Best training / workshop I've been to in a long time!
Excellent preparation, excellent connection to real world classroom and test experiences.
Unbelievably awesome! I can't say enough - easy to reproduce with readily available supplies. Great ideas to enhance lessons that don't require a complete 180 degree turn from how I am teaching now.
Summary:
Are you tired and overworked trying to teach basic science concepts to students? Are your students having trouble memorizing and understanding science processes? Join us for an invigorating motivational workshop packed with strategies, hands-on lab activities, powerful manipulatives, models and experiments to clear the hurdles of student disinterest and the lack of understanding of how science works. Successful learning requires that students have a deep understanding of how the life sciences and physical sciences work together, in addition to their real world applications. Exactly how do matter and energy interact?
Using the 5E Instructional Model, participants will be guided to take an in-depth look at the physical and chemical properties of matter (density, solubility, viscosity, polarity, pH, electrolysis, the electromagnetic spectrum, acid rain, greenhouse effect, etc.) and how they relate to the biology of life. In addition, strategies to conquer intervention tutoring and raise student benchmark and TAKS performance will be addressed. Please join us in raising the bar in Science Education!
Participant Take-Home Lab Manipulatives for immediate use in the classroom include: solid, liquid, gas models, pH model, food chain/biomass model, gas law-lung-diaphragm model, flame test manipulative, diffraction grating glasses, in addition to the 5E lab activities.
Target
Audience: - Elementary School Teachers
Gloria Chatelain and Courtney
Williams
Having
taught many different sciences over the years, in
addition to our background experiences in biological research, we are
eager to help and share knowledge with teachers to improve their
understanding of how science concepts are woven together to form
patterns, and how these patterns can be applied toward
understanding the world around us.
Arming teachers with confidence and providing a comfort level for teaching difficult science concepts, allows teachers to want to "pay it forward" to their students. This can help ensure educational success. It is also imperative that we encourage our teachers to motivate, engage and challenge our students by introducing them to some of fantastic opportunities arising in the field of science.
Assisting teachers with science content is a vehicle to ensure that we continue to gain ground toward raising the bar in science education, and that we clear the hurdle toward keeping our students' interest, and allow them to share in the responsibility for their own learning.
Arming teachers with confidence and providing a comfort level for teaching difficult science concepts, allows teachers to want to "pay it forward" to their students. This can help ensure educational success. It is also imperative that we encourage our teachers to motivate, engage and challenge our students by introducing them to some of fantastic opportunities arising in the field of science.
Assisting teachers with science content is a vehicle to ensure that we continue to gain ground toward raising the bar in science education, and that we clear the hurdle toward keeping our students' interest, and allow them to share in the responsibility for their own learning.
Accomplishments, Certifications and
Credentials
. Masters Degree in Interdisciplinary
Science
. 28 years of teaching/administration experience
. District Workshop Trainer (K-12)
. Extensive training and experience working with at-risk populations
. Presenter at NSTA (National Science Teachers Association)
. Presenter at CAST (Conference for Advancement of Science Teachers)
