Professional Development
Presentation and facilitation:
- Inquiry based instruction
– Design a focus with an end goal in mind. Not activity for activity sake. Hands on minds on.
– Inquiry learning is all about posing questions that can be investigated. The more children are encouraged to use thought provoking questions, the more students are led to inquiry learning.
– Facilitation of Inquiry Institute for ASSET Inc. (Achieving Student Success Through Excellence in Teaching)
- Peer or administrative ‘look fors’ in an inquiry based lesson
– Design a focus while in the classroom as an observer or evaluator
- Notebooking for the literacy connection
– Based on informational writing in science to improve reading and writing skills throughout the curriculum
- Assessment
– When curriculum is aligned to standards, frequent assessments are critical in determining the pace of instruction, remediation, and readiness for new content. Developing both formative and summative assessments are a necessary part of the classroom routine.
- Facilitation of Assessment Institute for ASSET Inc. (Achieving Student Success Through Excellence in Teaching)
- Effective questioning techniques
– Utilizing Blooms Taxonomy to create questions that are problem solving and inspire critical thinking. Developed a course on effective questioning techniques and facilitated for ASSET Inc.
– Presentation of questioning research at ASTE (Association for Science Teacher Education)
– Presented and facilitated a course on effective questioning techniques in Green Bay Wisconsin, Next Steps Institute.
- Strategic Planning
– Planning for core subjects through a three to five year plan. How to form committees, designate your key players, develop a vision, mission. and goals.
- Sustainability
– Develop a plan to sustain programs that are successful
- Facilitation of Laser K-* Science Education SPI (Strategic Planning Institute)
- MEMTA panel to review applications for the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy