PD: Professional Development Session Resources

Open Education Resources for Science Education PD

We are now posting open education resources for professional development! Our STEM Teaching Tools have been used to support extended professional development (PD) sessions. We are now posting open educational resource (OER) versions of those PD sessions. They include all of the resources that PD facilitators need to adapt and run the sessions—including slides, speaker notes, facilitator guide, and embedded resources. We are starting with PD focused on supporting 3D formative assessment. We will keep adding more over time.

PD Session Resources (developed through the ACESSE Project):

• Session A: Introduction to Formative Assessment to Support Equitable 3D Instruction (60-70 minutes)
• Session B: How to Assess Three-Dimensional Learning in Your Classroom: Building Assessment Tasks that Work (60-70 minutes)
• Session C: Making Science Instruction Compelling for All Students: Using Cultural Formative Assessment to Build on Learner Interest and Experience
  
• Session D: How to Craft 3D Classroom Science Assessments
• Session E: Selecting Anchoring Phenomena for Equitable 3D Teaching
• Session F: Seeing Facets, not Misconceptions: How to Build on the Range of Student Thinking in Instruction
• Session G: Learning to See the Resources Students Bring to Sense-Making
• Session H: Attending to Student Interests and Community Priorities in Phenomena

Webinars

ClimeTime Professional Learning Session: How to Support Home-Based Science Learning During School Closures	Designing Inclusive Science Learning Environments: Supporting Students Who Receive Special Education Services

STEM Teaching Tools PD "Playlists"

Here are STEM Teaching Tool Playlists! Our STEM Teaching Tools can be used for a range of purposes. The following are some specific uses that have been developed. You can think of them as 'playlists' of STEM Teaching Tools to orient yourself or different audiences to a particular topic in STEM education. We will keep adding more over time.

Suggested STEM Teaching Tool Uses, or Playlists:

• Introducing the NGSS / NRC Framework Vision to Teachers (50-70 min session)
• Introducing the NGSS / NRC Framework Vision to School Principals (30-45 min session)
• Engaging Teachers with Equity in Science Education (50 min)
• Incorporating Scientific Argumentation into Your Classroom (105 min)
• Promoting Student Science Talk in the Classroom (50 min)

General PD Resources

Our bookmarks were a hit at the NSTA conference, so we've posted them online for you to print yourself. They offer a concise list of the science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and key definitions for easy reference as you familiarize yourself with the NGSS.

• PDF: Single Bookmark
• PDF: Printable Page of Bookmarks (select "Actual Size" rather than "Fit to Page" when printing)