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NSTA Professional Development Institutes

New Orleans, Louisiana: March 18, 2009

PDI-1: Inquiring into Inquiry (BSCS Center for Professional Development)
PDI-2: Integrating Science and Engineering Technology (Center for Science Education, Education Development Center, Inc.)—cancelled
PDI-3: Discussion and Writing in the Inquiry Based Elementary Science Classroom: critical partners in the development of scientific reasoning and conceptual understanding (Center for Science Education, Education Development Center, Inc.)—cancelled
PDI-4: Inquiry-Based Mentoring (Center for Science Education, Education Development Center, Inc.)—cancelled
PDI-5: Outdoor Learning: A Path to Science and Literacy (First Hand Learning)
PDI-6: Assessing and Promoting Teachers’ Understanding and Skills in Assessment and Instruction for Student Learning (Facet Innovations)
PDI-7: Knowing What They Know: Writing Assessment Questions That Reveal Student Thinking (Horizon Research, Inc.)
PDI-8: Issue-Oriented Science: Engage, Motivate, and Educate (Lawrence Hall of Science)
PDI-9: Designing Effective Science Instruction: Developing Student Understanding through Classroom Inquiry, Discourse and Sense-Making (McREL, Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning)
PDI-10: Linking Scientific Inquiry to Students’ Lives Using Geographic Tools and Perspectives (National Geographic Society, Division of Education & Children’s Programs)
PDI-11: Coaching as a Path to Reflective Practice in Science (South Carolina Department of Education’s Mathematics & Science Unit)—cancelled
PDI-12: Classroom Strategies for Teaching Inquiry (Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry and TERC)
PDI-13: Science for English Language Learners (ELL): Integrating Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Thinking into the K–8 Classroom (University of Nevada–Reno/David Crowther)
PDI-14: Building a Professional Learning Community through Reflective Practice (WestEd/K–12 Alliance)

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