Dmns Teacher Training 0194

Phenomenon Driven Sensemaking for greater engagement and deeper conceptual understanding

Blended Course for Grades 5-12 Science Educators

What if we could make our science teaching practice easier, for us and for our students, by aligning it to the way that our brain naturally makes sense of the world around it?  

 

Join us for several collaborative hands-on workshop days that focus on evidence-based teaching & learning strategies that you can use tomorrow.

Teacher and students doing a chemistry experiment

Come experience, practice, and construct lesson sequences that: 

  • Are engaging to students 
  • Are phenomenon driven
  • Elicit, activate, uncover, and build-on what they already know 
  • Stimulate lifelong curiosity and produce durable conceptual change
  • Are based in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and classroom tested teaching strategies
  • Have our students making sense of targeted core ideas of science using the same hands-on practices and thinking lenses that actual scientists and engineers use every day

We will be using the Sensemaking Tool from the National Science Teaching Association.  

 

Grades:

For 5-12 science educators

 

Dates and Times:

Face-to-Face Sessions
June 12 and 13 8:00am to 4:00pm required for all participants
October 4 8:00am to 4:00pm only required for university credit
 
Online Implementation
Sept 6 - Oct 5 2.5-3 hours per week additional requirement for those seeking 3.0 university credits

Registration Information

Option 1

Certificate of hours for 15 hours (summer only)

  • Attend the two face-to-face summer workshop days (June 12 and 13) at the museum

Cost

$250 includes meals, materials, instruction, and prizes

 

Option 2

3.0 Graduate-level re-licensure credits (summer & fall)

  • Attend the two face-to-face summer workshop days (June 12 and 13) at the museum
  • Complete 4 weeks of asynchronous online implementation in your classroom (Sept 6-Oct 5)
  • Attend the final face-to-face day in the fall (Oct 4) where we extend and put it all together

Cost

$300 includes textbook, university credits, meals, materials, instruction, and prizes

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