PDI Pathway Sessions—New Orleans 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.)
- PDI-4: Inquiry-Based Mentoring (Center for Science Education, Education Development Center, Inc.)
- 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)
PDI-1: Inquiring into Inquiry
BSCS Pathway: Can Inquiry Lead to Content Deepening?
Friday 8:00am–10:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 333
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Can inquiry teaching deepen students’ content understanding? In this session, participants engage in inquiry activities based on the sun/Earth/moon system that model the five essential features of inquiry and focus on scientific explanations.
Presenter(s): Sam Spiegel, Janet Carlson
BSCS Pathway: Classroom Inquiry: A Tool for Reflection
Friday 2:00pm–5:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 333
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
By analyzing video of secondary science classrooms, participants in this session become familiar with a “practice profile” that helps them identify effective, inquiry-based teaching practices. Participants also consider resources for further professional development.
Presenter(s): Jody Bintz, Betty Stennett
BSCS Pathway: Doing Science: Inquiry Moves to the Head of the Class!
Thursday 11:00am–12:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 333
Intended Audience: Middle Level; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Inquiry is an important set of understandings and skills, but it is often placed in the background in science instruction. In this session, participants have the opportunity to take part in activities that move inquiry to the head of the class!
Presenter(s): Anne Westbrook, Mark Bloom
BSCS Pathway: Inquiry through the Eyes of an Elementary Learner
Friday 11:00am–1:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 333
Intended Audience: Elementary
Science Area: Biology/Life Science
Can elementary students learn life science content through inquiry-based science? Yes! Explore the essential features of classroom inquiry through the eyes of an elementary learner.
Presenter(s): Deb Jordan, Brooke Bourdelat-Parks
BSCS Pathway: Teaching for Inquiry: Meeting the Goal with Rubrics
Thursday 9:00am–10:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 333
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Learn about a valuable classroom observation rubric for assessing the extent of teaching for inquiry. Consider how the rubric can be used in your classroom to improve science teaching and learning.
Presenter(s): April Gardner, Joe Taylor, Chris Wilson, Jane Larso
BSCS Pathway: The BSCS 5E Instructional Model
Thursday 3:30pm–5:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 333
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Research on how people learn includes several key findings that have important implications for teaching and the implementation of high-quality instructional materials. In this session, participants explore these key findings through the BSCS 5E Instructional Model.
Presenter(s): Betty Stennett, Joe Taylor
BSCS Pathway: What is Inquiry? Setting the Stage
Thursday 8:00am–8:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 333
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
If it’s “hands-on,” is it inquiry? Is “just reading” the opposite of inquiry? Participants explore these questions and identify critical features of teaching science as inquiry.
Presenter(s): Janet Carlson
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PDI-2: Integrating Science and Engineering Technology
cancelled
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PDI-3: Discussion and Writing in the Inquiry Based Elementary Science Classroom: critical partners in the development of scientific reasoning and conceptual understanding
EDCl Pathway: Connecting Science and Literacy: The Role of Explicit Teaching
Thursday 11:00am–1:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 335
Intended Audience: Elementary
Science Area: Integrated/General
We will share ways to use mini lessons to support the connection between inquiry science and literacy instruction at the upper elementary level.
Presenter(s): Martha Heller-Winokur, Karen Worth, Sally Crissman, Jeff Winokur
EDCl Pathway: Expository Writing and Science Notebooks: Documented Success in Increasing Achievement in Expository Writing and Inquiry-Based Science in the Elementary Grades
Thursday 1:30pm–3:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 335
Intended Audience: Elementary
Science Area: Integrated/General
Through mini-lessons and discussion, learn research-based strategies for using word banks, graphic organizers, and writing frames to increase student achievement in science and expository writing.
Presenter(s): Betsy Rupp Fulwiler
EDCl Pathway: Kids can argue: Students using evidence for science arguments
Thursday 4:00pm–6:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 335
Intended Audience: Elementary
Science Area: Integrated/General
Evidence based scientific argumentation is at the heart of the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) and this process helps improve learning, thinking, and language skills.
Presenter(s): Brian Hand, Jay Staker
EDCl Pathway: Linking Science and Literacy through Nature Journals
Thursday 8:00am–10:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 335
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level
Science Area: Biology/Life Science
Three easy-to-learn, easy-to-teach methods introduce your science students to nature journals as a tool for linking inquiry-based science to literacy.
Presenter(s): Mark Baldwin
EDCl Pathway: The Art of Talk and The Power of the Circle
Friday 8:00am–10:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 335
Intended Audience: Elementary
Science Area: Integrated/General
Using classroom video and discussion, we will share strategies for developing students' skills for engaging in productive classroom science discussions in grades 3–5.
Presenter(s): Jeff Winokur, Sally Crissman, Martha Heller-Winokur, Karen Worth
EDCl Pathway: Writing in science using firsthand data
Friday 2:00pm–4:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 335
Intended Audience: Elementary
Science Area: Integrated/General
This session will focus on teaching strategies that help students write reports that are based on their own experiences and their own thinking.
Presenter(s): Karen Worth, Martha Heller-Winokur, Jeff Winokur, Sally Crissman
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PDI-4: Inquiry Based Mentoring
EDCm Pathway: Examining Student Thinking in Science and Mathematics—Powerful Strategies for Supporting Mentor/Mentees and Their Professional Learning Communities Through the NNECN Program
Thursday 11:00am–1:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 336
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
The Northern New England Co-Mentoring Network (NNECN) program has helped new and experienced teachers with eliciting, examining, and designing instruction that addresses students' misconceptions in science and mathematics is a powerful way for experienced teachers to renew their practice and new teachers to gain content pedagogical knowledge and discipline specific teaching strategies. This session will provide a brief overview of NNECN program, share specific tools and strategies for examining student thinking in science and mathematics in a learning focused relationship between mentors and mentees as well in an expanded professional learning community, and summarize the impact of the NNECN program on experienced teachers and new teacher retention.
Presenter(s): Mary Dunn, Brian Greenlaw, Mary Whitten
EDCm Pathway: Facilitating the Work of Science Mentors
Thursday 1:30pm–3:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 336
Intended Audience: Middle Level
Science Area: Integrated/General
This session provides resources and support for science specialists to prepare middle grades mentors. Using EDC’s guide, case studies and videos, participants practice mentoring strategies.
Presenter(s): Marian Pasquale, Catherine McCulloch
EDCm Pathway: Focusing Observations: Inquiry Criteria for Middle Grades Science Classroom Visits
Thursday 4:00pm–6:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 336
Intended Audience: Middle Level
Science Area: Integrated/General
This session introduces participants to a planning and observation tool that focuses on phases of inquiry in middle grades science classrooms, infrastructure and assessment.
Presenter(s): Marian Pasquale, Bernie Zubrowski
EDCm Pathway: Helping beginning secondary science teachers: Research-based suggestions for experienced teachers and administrators
Friday 8:00am–10:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 336
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Integrated/General
Helping beginning secondary science teachers: Research-based suggestions for experienced teacher and administrator mentors.
Presenter(s): Julie Luft
EDCm Pathway: How to be an Effective Mentor: From the Horse's Mouth
Friday 11:00am–12:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 336
Intended Audience: Middle Level
Science Area: Integrated/General
Four mentors from districts participating in EDC’s Science Mentoring Program will reflect on their experiences as science mentors. They will share video footage of their work.
Presenter(s): Cindy Wrobel
EDCm Pathway: Mentoring Beginning Science Teachers in Urban Systems
Thursday 9:30am–10:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 336
Intended Audience: Middle Level
Science Area: Integrated/General
Teachers and university faculty will share three years of data comparing three mentoring models for supporting beginning teachers in urban classrooms.”
Presenter(s): David Radford
EDCm Pathway: Online Mentoring for Beginning Science Teachers
Friday 3:30pm–5:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 336
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High School
Science Area: Integrated/General
Learn how new and veteran secondary science teachers can join in a national online community passionate about science education. eMSS provides content-based mentoring, access to scientists, and curriculum focused on content and pedagogy. This NSF-funded program is a collaboration between NSTA, the New Teacher Center @ UCSC and Montana State University.
Presenter(s): Roberta Jaffe
EDCm Pathway: Research on Science Mentoring
Friday 12:30pm–1:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 336
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level
Science Area: Integrated/General
Now more than ever there is pressure to identify sound research when instituting new professional development opportunities for professional development and teacher leadership. A growing body of literature exists on mentoring, and international and national studies can shed light on the “why” of mentoring.
Presenter(s): Ted Britton
EDCm Pathway: Want to Start a Mentoring Program?
Friday 2:00pm–3:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 336
Intended Audience: Preschool; Elementary; Middle Level; High School; Informal Education; Supervision/Administration; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
The EDC Science Mentoring model, designed with support from the National Science Foundation, provided the opportunity to examine what foundations were needed to get a program up and running. In this session, we will look at the “negotiables” and “non-negotiables” and all that is in between.
Presenter(s): Barbara Burns, Nancy Hurley
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PDI-5: Outdoor Learning: A Path to Science and Literacy
FHL Pathway: Afterschool Science for Kids
Friday 8:00am–9:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 338
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; Informal Education; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
A citywide collaboration to support teens in leading younger students in afterschool science experiences connected to their school science curriculum. A collaboration between an urban Boys&Girls Club, school district, and nonprofit organization.
Presenter(s): Dianne Johnson
FHL Pathway: Archaeology Indoors and Out
Thursday 8:00am–10:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 338
Intended Audience: Middle Level
Science Area: Integrated/General
Evidence changes when one moves from simulated archaeology indoors to shovel and screen procedures outdoors. A community center in Buffalo tried both approaches.
Presenter(s): Peter Dow, Bill Rogers
FHL Pathway: Consider the Evidence—Using Student Journals to Drive Instruction
Friday 12:30pm–1:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 338
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level
Science Area: Integrated/General
Daily journal assessment in middle school science classes provides direction for science instruction. We'll analyze student journal entries, noticing what students know about science process skills and content. We'll discuss strategies for using journals to drive instruction.
Presenter(s): Therese Arsenault
FHL Pathway: Mapping the Schoolyard
Thursday 4:00pm–5:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 338
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; Informal Education
Science Area: Environmental Science
Learn how to evaluate the educational potential of a site by mapping its resources, both natural and human made and by making cross-curricular links to math, measurement, scaling, and drawing explicit.
Presenter(s): Patricia McGlashan, Kristen Gasser
FHL Pathway: Nature Journals and Field Guides:Tools for Linking Science and Literacy
Friday 9:30am–11:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 338
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; Informal Education
Science Area: Biology/Life Science
Learn how to link nature journals as tools to propel inquiry with making field guides as tools to promote literacy.
Presenter(s): Mark Baldwin
FHL Pathway: Out Doors After School
Thursday 11:00am–1:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 338
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level
Science Area: Integrated/General
Science Firsthand - Partners in Discovery is a project that gives urban youth an adult mentor and time after school for exploring scientifically.
Presenter(s): Bill Rogers
FHL Pathway: Strategies for Using Writing to Engage High School Students in Science
Thursday 2:00pm–3:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 338
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; Informal Education
Science Area: Environmental Science
Examine multiple writing strategies that build interest and understanding in science content among high school students. Participants will review student blogs, Instructables, tags, journals, webpage designs, posters, and newspaper articles.
Presenter(s): Diane Miller, Cynthia Graville
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PDI-6: Assessing and Promoting Teachers’ Understanding and Skills in Assessment and Instruction for Student Learning
FI Pathway: Creating an Assessment for Learning Perspective
Thursday 4:00pm–5:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 339
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; College; Supervision/Administration; General
Science Area: Physics/Physical Science
Participants will have an opportunity to enhance their vision of formative assessment to include diagnosing specific conceptual needs of students and making instructional actions to address those needs. Setting the classroom culture for a diagnostic learning environment will also be discussed.
Presenter(s): Jim Minstrell, Ruth Anderson, Min Li
FI Pathway: Moving beyond "Probes:" Constructing and using Elicitation Questions to diagnose needs of the science class and inform teachers of student needs
Thursday 9:30am–11:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 339
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; College; Supervision/Administration; General
Science Area: Physics/Physical Science
Participants will experience Elicitation Questions that can be used to open up the issues in the next sub-unit of science content. Elicitation Questions can help the teacher get the “lay of the land” in terms of specific sorts of initial understandings that students exhibit before instruction. It can give teachers information that can inform decisions about next lessons. For students the related discussion can begin to give them an idea of what they are going to need to understand. The discussion also begins to expand their view by seeing the sorts of ideas other students have. Finally, it can motivate students’ inquiry into the sub-unit content.
Presenter(s): Pamela Kraus, Jim Minstrell, Stamatis Vokos
FI Pathway: Moving from formative assessment results to appropriate instructional actions
Thursday 12:30pm–3:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 339
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; College; Supervision/Administration; General
Science Area: Physics/Physical Science
So now the teacher has the results of the Probe, Elicitation Question, or other formative assessment. What does the teacher do next? This session will take participants from having formative assessment data to planning and deciding what actions to do to address the results. How might those results be interpreted? What are the cognitive or experiential needs suggested by the results? What does the need suggest should be the most important variables to be salient in the subsequent lesson to address problematic aspects of students’ understanding as well as addressing the learning goal? Participants will have an opportunity to consider needs and design or adapt instructional activities to address needs.
Presenter(s): Ruth Anderson, Pamela Kraus, Jim Minstrell
FI Pathway: Questioning strategies consistent with assessment for learning
Friday 9:30am–11:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 339
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; College; Supervision/Administration; General
Science Area: Physics/Physical Science
This session will address how to conduct discussions that give teachers information about student learning and learning needs. The difficulties of creating a questioning environment for being critical of ideas being presented and at the same time being encouraging and supporting of people expressing their ideas will be addressed. The foundations for creating the culture in the classroom that can be formative for learning will be discussed. Also, contrasting non-evaluative formative questioning environment with the requirements of accountability and grades will be discussed.
Presenter(s): Ruth Anderson, Pamela Kraus, Jim Minstrell
FI Pathway: Using on-line tools to support assessment for learning.
Friday 12:30pm–3:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 339
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; College; Supervision/Administration; General
Science Area: Physics/Physical Science
The Tools available atwww.Diagnoser.com will be featured in this session. What assumptions about learning are built into the tools? What are the tools contained at the site? How are teachers using the tools? What are the effects on students’ learning when teachers and students use the tools? How might the tools be used for professional development for enhancing teachers’ content knowledge as well as their assessment and teaching skills? These are questions to be addressed in this session.
Presenter(s): Pamela Kraus, Jim Minstrell, Stamatis Vokos
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PDI-7: Knowing What They Know: Writing Assessment Questions That Reveal Student Thinking
HRI Pathway: Knowing What They Know: Analyzing Student Work To Reveal Student Thinking
Friday 12:30pm–3:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 342
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High School
Science Area: Integrated/General
This session will focus on the importance of having a framework for analyzing student work related to specific science concepts.
Presenter(s): Sean Smith, Melanie Taylor
HRI Pathway: Knowing What They Know: Developing And Using A Framework For Analyzing Student Thinking
Thursday 12:30pm–3:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 342
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Integrated/General
This session will focus on the importance of having a framework for analyzing student work related to specific science concepts.
Presenter(s): Sean Smith, Melanie Taylor
HRI Pathway: Knowing What They Know: Item Writing As Development--Transferring The Item-Writing Workshop To Your School/District (Session A)
Friday 8:00am–11:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 342
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; Supervision/Administration
Science Area: Integrated/General
Participants will receive resources and use them to plan for starting and sustaining a professional development experience for teachers focused on writing assessment items.
Presenter(s): Sean Smith, Melanie Taylor
HRI Pathway: Knowing What They Know: Item Writing As Professional Development--Transferring The Item-Writing Workshop To Your School/District (Session B)
Friday 11:00am–12:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 342
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; Supervision/Administration
Science Area: Integrated/General
Participants will receive resources and use them to plan for starting and sustaining a professional development experience for teachers focused on writing assessment items.
Presenter(s): Sean Smith, Melanie Taylor
HRI Pathway: Knowing What They Know: The Importance Of And Strategies For Eliciting Student Thinking In A Classroom Setting
Thursday 8:00am–10:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 342
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Integrated/General
In this session, participants will learn about effective strategies and resources for eliciting student thinking. The session will also provide time for participants to practice developing their own prompts.
Presenter(s): Sean Smith, Melanie Taylor
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PDI-8: Issue-Oriented Science: Engage, Motivate, and Educate
LHS Pathway: Alternative Energy for Transportation: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
Friday 11:00am–12:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: High Shcool
Science Area: Chemistry
Learn about the chemistry, environmental science, and issues related to the use of hydrogen and fuel cells for transportation. Take home classroom activities on alternative energy for transportation and how hydrogen fuel cells work.
Presenter(s): Barbara Nagle
LHS Pathway: Developing Literacy and Addressing Content Standards Through Issue-oriented Science
Thursday 8:00am–9:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Biology/Life Science
Engage in literacy strategies that work well in issue-oriented science lessons and discuss ways to use these strategies in your secondary science classroom. Examples will include strategies for reading, writing, and discussion.
Presenter(s): Laura Lenz
LHS Pathway: Ethanol: The Cleaner Burning Alternative?
Friday 2:00pm–3:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: High Shcool
Science Area: Chemistry
Participants will compare the by-products of ethanol and kerosene combustion and use their results and additional information to discuss issues related to ethanol as an energy alternative.
Presenter(s): Barbara Nagle, Donna Parker
LHS Pathway: Getting Kids Invested with Stories: The Car of the Future
Thursday 9:30am–10:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Integrated/General
Participants will see how being invested in a story facilitates the learning process, using an example about hybrid cars to teach energy transformations.
Presenter(s): Charles Judson Hill
LHS Pathway: Integrating Biodiversity Issues into Ecology and Evolution Units
Thursday 11:00am–12:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Biology/Life Science
Participate in activities that integrate issues related to biodiversity into standards-based units at the high school level. Take home classroom-tested strategies to use in your biology or environmental science classroom.
Presenter(s): Sara Dombkowski, Laura Lenz
LHS Pathway: Integrating Sustainability into the Science Classroom
Friday 8:00am–9:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Environmental Science
Issues related to sustainability affect everyone and impact every discipline. Experience how these issues make science come alive in the classroom.
Presenter(s): John Howarth, Laura Lenz
LHS Pathway: Making Connections: Strategies for Sustaining the Project
Thursday 12:30pm–1:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Integrated/General
While students benefit from project-based science, teaching
it can be challenging. Instructional strategies will be shared that
keep the science meaningful and sustain student motivation.
Presenter(s): Heather Johnson, Daniel Edelson
LHS Pathway: Real-World Science Connections: Scientists as Partners
Thursday 2:00pm–3:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Integrated/General
Learn about specific ways scientists have collaborated with Chicago teachers, providing additional content background and insights into how scientists approach scientific problems and socioscientific issues.
Presenter(s): David Slavsky, Hethyr Anderson
LHS Pathway: Strategies for Discussion and Debate in the Science Classroom
Thursday 3:30pm–4:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Biology/Life Science
Engage in tested strategies you can use in your classroom to encourage evidence-based discussion and debate of societal issues related to life and environmental science.
Presenter(s): Burke Kathaleen, Heather Maciejewski, Tammy Martin
LHS Pathway: Using Environmental Issues to Build Students' Scientific Argumentation Skills
Friday 9:15am–10:45am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: Elementary
Science Area: Environmental Science
In this session we share a strategy for building elementary students' scientific argumentation skills through structured discussion of environmental issues using evidence from text and inquiry-based investigation.
Presenter(s): Halversen Halverson, Catherine, Jonathan Curley, Jennifer Tilson
LHS Pathway: Using Issues as a Context for Teaching Science Content and Inquiry
Friday 12:30pm–1:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 337
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Integrated/General
Examine how personal and societal issues provide a context to motivate students to learn and apply content in the physical, life, and earth sciences.
Presenter(s): John Howarth
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PDI-9: Designing Effective Science Instruction: Developing Student Understanding through Classroom Inquiry, Discourse and Sense-Making
McREL Pathway: Designing Effective Science Instruction: Addressing Student Misconceptions (Pre-conceptions)
Friday 9:30am–11:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 346
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
How can teachers reveal and address student misconceptions to determine if students really understand science concepts? Learn more about an instructional process that teachers can use to address misconceptions! Handouts provided.
Presenter(s): Anne Tweed
McREL Pathway: Designing Effective Science Instruction: Constructing Understanding Using Visual Tools
Thursday 2:30pm–4:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 346
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Research indicates that development of visual representations enhances student understanding of content. Participants will learn more about graphic organizers, models, thinking maps, pictures and other strategies that help students understand content.
Presenter(s): Sarah LaBounty
McREL Pathway: Designing Effective Science Instruction: How do we know that student's understand?
Thursday 8:00am–9:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 346
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Learn how to make decisions during your instructional planning about what students should understand about the science content and how you will know that they have understood. Planning templates and examples provided.
Presenter(s): Sarah LaBounty
McREL Pathway: Designing Effective Science Instruction: Instructional Technology and Virtual Manipulatives that Suppport Student Understanding
Thursday 12:30pm–2:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 346
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Understand how to incorporate technology-based inquiry learning tools, such as virtual manipulatives, into high-quality science instruction. Used correctly, technological simulations intellectually engage students and provide opportunities for them to use evidence based data to support their understanding of science concepts.
Presenter(s): Anne Tweed
McREL Pathway: Designing Effective Science Instruction: Scientific Discourse in the Classroom
Friday 11:30am–1:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 346
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
To learn science concepts, students need to talk about their ideas to clarify their thinking. Learn how to use inquiry questioning strategies to get students to discuss in class and make sense of their learning experiences. Participants will practice using question stems provided.
Presenter(s): Anne Tweed
McREL Pathway: Designing Effective Science Instruction: Student Designing Experiments
Friday 8:00am–9:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 346
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Can your students design their own experiments? Managing Learn about experimental design diagrams to help students plan for experiments that help them understand the science concepts. Handouts provided.
Presenter(s): Sarah LaBounty
McREL Pathway: Designing Effective Science Instruction: Using a Formative Assessment Process to Determine Evidence of Student Understanding
Thursday 10:00am–12:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 346
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Using a formative assessment process will help teachers gather evidence of student learning that can be used to inform instruction and adapt to the learning needs of students. You will have the opportunity to learn about a feedback process and formative assessment strategies that will close the learning gap of your students. Handouts provided.
Presenter(s): Anne Tweed, Sarah LaBounty
McREL Pathway: Designing Effective Science Lessons: Helping Students Think Scientifically
Friday 3:30pm–5:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 346
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Learn more about how to design your instruction to promote scientific thinking of your students that promotes understanding. Participants will be provided with sample lesson materials.
Presenter(s): Anne Tweed
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PDI-10: Linking scientific inquiry to students’ lives using geographic tools and perspectives
NGS Pathway: Analyzing Energy Consumption: Individual, School-Wide, and Nationally-Focused Tools for Bringing Energy into the Classroom
Thursday 11:30am–12:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 347
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Environmental Science
The National Geographic Society and the National Environmental Education Foundation present: Tools for Incorporating Energy Consumption Analysis, Carbon Calculators, and Energy Audits into classrooms.
Presenter(s): Sheryl Hasegawa, Karen Heys
NGS Pathway: Connecting students to real-world science issues with National Geographic’s online resources
Friday 8:00am–9:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 347
Intended Audience: General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Learn how to leverage National Geographic’s renowned research, exploration, and media resources to engage students in real-world applications of scientific investigation.
Presenter(s): Patricia Norris, Mary Crooks
NGS Pathway: Crittercam and WildCam: Bringing Exciting NGS Research Tools Into the Classroom
Thursday 11:00am–12:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 347
Intended Audience: Middle Level
Science Area: Environmental Science
Teach about animal habitats and behaviors from the animal’s point of view. Thrilling footage and hands-on activities bring science to life in your classroom.
Presenter(s): Kim Hulse, Kim Hulse, Kim Hulse
NGS Pathway: Deep Dive: Exploring the Oceans from Your Classroom with National Geographic and Google Earth
Thursday 1:00pm–2:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 347
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; Informal Education
Science Area: Earth/Space Science
Take the plunge! New 3D virtual globes and other rich-media resources make it possible for teachers and students to plumb ocean depths as never before.
Presenter(s): Ford Cochran, Ford Cochran
NGS Pathway: Help your students find their own Walden: Putting Thoreau's Words into Environmental Action
Thursday 5:00pm–6:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 347
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool; Informal Education
Science Area: Environmental Science
Learn five steps to help your students set up an environmental stewardship project in their community, then share their work online with classrooms worldwide.
Presenter(s): Melissa Goslin, Susan Frey, Susan Frey
NGS Pathway: Linking Geography and Science Education: Two Programs Linking Geography & Science Education 'Geothentic' & 'Delaware Geography-Health Initiative'
Thursday 3:00pm–4:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 347
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Integrated/General
Learn about two new research projects that engage students in authentic learning environments and allow them to be part of solutions to real-world problems.
Presenter(s): Karen Gibbs, Aaron Doering, PhD, Peter W. Rees, PhD
NGS Pathway: National Geographic Education Science & Literacy: Science Content with Informational Reading and Writing
Thursday 9:00am–10:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 347
Intended Audience: Elementary
Science Area: Physics/Physical Science
See first-hand how solid science content can be used in conjunction with
reading informational text and model writing steps.
Presenter(s): Carl Benoit
NGS Pathway: NG FieldScope: Collaborative Mapping and Analysis for Real-World Science Education
Friday 10:00am–11:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 347
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool; Informal Education
Science Area: Environmental Science
Coming soon: an online mapping and analysis tool for environmental investigations. Learn what NG FieldScope will enable your students to do.
Presenter(s): Ford Cochran, Patricia Norris, Ford Cochran
NGS Pathway: The BioBlitz Program—Bringing Science Into Your Backyard
Friday 1:30pm–3:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 347
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; Informal Education
Science Area: Biology/Life Science
Learn how to conduct a BioBlitz with your students. Expose them to the rich biodiversity of the world, and in their own local ecosystems.
Presenter(s): Patricia Norris, Mary Crooks, Tim Watkins
NGS Pathway: What Every Science Teacher Should Know About Geography but is Afraid to Ask
Friday 3:30pm–4:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 347
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; College
Science Area: Integrated/General
Most Americans have no idea what geography is. Those that do think it’s just social studies. Learn why geography is really an essential science.
Presenter(s): Daniel Edelson
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PDI-12: Classroom Strategies for Teaching Inquiry
Exploratorium Pathway: A Developmental Approach to Extended Guided Inquiry
Thursday 8:00am–11:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 349
Intended Audience: Elementary; Informal Education; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Participants will experience hands-on activities from one published curriculum module as a concrete context for promoting a discussion about extended guided inquiry and as a way of modeling a significant change in the traditional conception of the learning cycle.
Presenter(s): Bernie Zubrowski
Exploratorium Pathway: Bogus Biology: Correcting Errors with Inquiry
Thursday 2:00pm–4:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 349
Intended Audience: Middle Level; High Shcool; General
Science Area: Biology/Life Science
Presenter(s): Karen Kalumuk
Exploratorium Pathway: Teaching Inquiry-based Earth Science Using Student-generated Field Investigations
Friday 9:30am–12:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 349
Intended Audience: Elementary; College; General
Science Area: Earth/Space Science
Find out about the Minnesota TIMES project where students develop content rich field investigations within their earth science curriculum. Be prepared to go outdoors and experience the process.
Presenter(s): Lee Schmitt, Kate Rosek, Marlene Schoeneck, Thomas Smith, Mark Ryan
Exploratorium Pathway: The Young scientist: Engaging 3- to 5-Year-Old Children in Science Inquiry
Thursday 11:30am–1:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 349
Intended Audience: Preschool; Elementary; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
We will explore strategies for engaging 3- to 5-year-olds in authentic science inquiry, and similarities and differences between inquiry at this and other age levels.
Presenter(s): Jeff Winokur, Karen Worth
Exploratorium Pathway: Using Inquiry to Teach for Understanding
Friday 2:00pm–4:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 349
Intended Audience: Professional Development, Elementary, Middle School, College
Science Area: Physical Science
This session highlights a professional development model that has been successful in helping elementary and middle school teachers learn substantive science content using a guided (explicit) inquiry approach and learn how to apply similar methods to their own classroom teaching.
Presenter(s): Paul Kuerbis, Sandy Smith
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PDI-13: Science for English Language Learners: Integrating Reading, Writing; Listening; Speaking; and Thinking into the K-8 Classroom
UNV Pathway: A Research-Based Approach to Instruction for English Learners: Considerations for Reading, Writing, vocabulary and Discourse in Science
Thursday 12:30pm–2:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 350
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
This session shares practices that have been proven to scaffold the language needs of English learners in science. These include dealing with the linguistic blindspots (e.g., dual meaning words in science, idiomatic expressions) that often derail English Learners’ science understandings. We share approaches to deal with these issues instructionally.
Presenter(s): Marco Bravo, Gina Cervetti, Thao Duong, Sera Hernandez
UNV Pathway: Assessing English Learners Through Science
Friday 8:00am–10:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 350
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Assessing EL students in the science classroom is a large frustration for many teachers; however, with the right strategies and resources this does not need to be the case. This session includes assessments developed by the California Science Project's Assessment Task Force as well as other assessments for science suitable for English Learners in K-6 classrooms.
Presenter(s): Suzanne Nakashima, Fred Dobb
UNV Pathway: Here's a Doable Approach to Differentiation: Strategies for ELL
Friday 12:30pm–2:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 350
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
The presenters will discuss how simple charts showing academic language skills for beginning to fluent English learners can be used in conjunction with four instructional strategies to scaffold content learning for English learners. The charts and core strategies are based on WestEd's "Making Science Accessible to English Learners: A Guidebook for Teachers"
Presenter(s): John Carr, Ursula Sexton
UNV Pathway: Reading and Thinking Strategies for English Language Learners in Science
Thursday 8:00am–10:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 350
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Presenters will demonstrate interactive strategies designed to promote contextualization, comprehension and critical thinking in science classrooms with English Language Learners, while highlighting the alignment of lesson content and language objectives.
Presenter(s): Bernadette Musetti, Tom Brown
UNV Pathway: Science Notebooks for English Language Learners
Friday 11:00am–12:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 350
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
This session will explore the development and use of science notebooks with primary aged students who are ELL. Research, strategies and ideas will be shared showing examples and short vignettes of the developmental process and utilization of science notebooks within a Title I school with very high LEP and ELL population.
Presenter(s): Lori Fulton
UNV Pathway: Using the CREDE Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy to Integrate Science Language and Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners
Thursday 3:30pm–5:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 350
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
This session will introduce participants to the CREDE Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy (CFSEP) and their use in integrating inquiry science with language and literacy instruction for English Language Learners. The CFSEP are five areas of teaching practice that promote the achievement of ELL: (1) Language & Literacy (LL): Teacher use of authentic science literacy tasks to support science learning. Teacher use of science discourse patterns and science vocabulary; (2) Contextualization (C): teacher elicitation of student expertise from home/community (culture) or local (environmental/natural surrounding) understandings of science-related phenomena in classroom science lessons: (3) Collaborative Inquiry (CI): student-led participation in science activities with a shared goal resulting in a material or symbolic product used for or an outcome of scientific processes; (4) Instructional Conversation (IC): teacher initiation of conversation that requires student scientific reasoning & dialogue; (5) Complex Thinking (CT) teacher elicitation and modeling of complex reasoning of science concepts. Participants will engage with the CFSEP through the discussion of instructional scenarios, video cases and hands on activities.
Presenter(s): Trish Stoddard, Jorge Solis, Sara Tolbet
UNV Pathway: We Do Science Here! Administrators' Role in a Title 1 (K-5) Science Intensive Public School
Thursday 10:30am–11:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 350
Intended Audience: Elementary; Supervision/Administration; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
This session will share with participants how we have been able to encourage science instruction despite the pressures of NCLB in a Title I school with very high ELL and LEP population. We will share our success, test scores and vision so that other schools may learn from our experiences. Teaching science every day in every grade has been our motto for our success.
Presenter(s): Wendy Roselinsky
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PDI-14: Building a Professional Learning Community through Reflective Practice
WestEd Pathway: A Professional Learning Community Strategy: Targeted Interventions Matter
Thursday 3:30pm–5:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 341
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool
Science Area: Integrated/General
Are your students having trouble with charting, graphing and making summary statements? Learn targeted interventions that successfully address these classroom challenges. Receive student packet
Presenter(s): Jody Sherriff, Greta Smith
WestEd Pathway: A Professional Learning Community Strategy: Conceptual Flow to Map Content
Friday 12:30pm–2:30pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 341
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Science sense making revealed! Learn a collaborative process to organize science content into a comprehensible story line using backwards mapping.
Presenter(s): Susan Gomez-Zwiep, Shawn Holmes
WestEd Pathway: A Professional Learning Community Strategy: Rubric Development/Feedback Loops
Friday 9:30am–11:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 341
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Demystify student success! Learn a collaborative process that includes: the development of rubrics for student work, planning interventions and providing feedback for students.
Presenter(s): Kathy DiRanna, Melissa Smith
WestEd Pathway: A Professional Learning Community: Getting Started
Thursday 9:30am–11:30am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 341
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; Supervision/Administration; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Overcome Inertia! Learn strategies to set a professional learning community in motion in your department or grade level using successful professional development activities.
Presenter(s): Karen Cerwin, John Spiegel
WestEd Pathway: Build a Professional Learning Community through Assessment Centered Teaching
Thursday 12:00pm–3:00pm
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 341
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; Supervision/Administration; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Beyond the grade book! Learn a process that includes: design unit assessment plan; analyze student work for patterns; modify instruction based on the student work.
Presenter(s): Jo Topps, Lynn Barakos, Melissa Smith
WestEd Pathway: Lesson Study as a Professional Learning Community: The Teaching Learning Collaborative (TLC)
Friday 8:00am–9:00am
New Orleans—Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, room 341
Intended Audience: Elementary; Middle Level; High Shcool; Supervision/Administration; General
Science Area: Integrated/General
Take the guesswork out of lesson design! Get an overview of how Teaching Learning Collaboratives (Lesson Study) help teachers use evidence to make collaborative decisions about student learning.
Presenter(s): Karen Cerwin, David Harris
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