Next Gen STEM Teacher Preparation: Workshop #2

May 30, 2015, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Central Washington University
Dean Hall

Agenda

8:00 a.m. Arrival and breakfast Dean Hall lobby

8:30 a.m. Welcome, Overview, and Goals for the Day Dean Hall 104

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Results of the NGSS course survey Gus Nollmeyer

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9:15 a.m. Implementing one aspect of change: Clinical practice

• What does clinical practice mean? Conversations in mixed groups with facilitator, recorder and reporter.
• What would it take to implement it?
• Report out at 10:00 on the clinical practice synthesis page

10:15 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. Innovative STEM Teacher Preparation Courses, Curricula, and Programs – Concurrent Sessions I – each session has a web-based workspace for notes

• Elementary Education Ginni Erion and Susan Connelly (CWU) Room 112
  • Link to Ginni and Sue's Prezi presentation
• UTeach Michael Marder (UT Austin) - joining by Skype Room 113
  • Link to Michael's Prezi presentation
• Education for Sustainability Kathryn Picanco (Whitworth) Room 102
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    WAC 392 Requirements (Section 6)
    ESE K-12 ESE Standards
    Integrated Environment and Sustainability Grade Level Standards and Resources
    Environmental Literacy Plan
    Environmental Literacy Plan Executive Summary
    ESE Specialty Endorsement Competencies
    E-3 Washington
    Pacific Education Institute
    Facing the Future
    USTESD White Paper and Information
    AACTE Topical Action Group: Education for Sustainability
    Northwest Association of Teacher Educators (NWATE)
    InTeGrate: A five-year, NSF-funded center
    
• Preparing Mentor Teachers Dan Hanley (WWU) and Susan Kagel (WWU) Room 103
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  • Observation guide for teachers (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 3.4MB Jun1 15)
  • Stoplight model for reflection (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 3.5MB Jun1 15)

11:15 a.m. Innovative STEM Teacher Preparation Courses, Curricula, and Programs – Concurrent Sessions II – each session has a web-based workspace for notes

• Student-centered Elementary Science Courses Sue DeBari (WWU) and Sara Julin (Whatcom CC) Room 112
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• Innovative Physics Education Eugenia Etkina (Rutgers University) - joining by Skype Room 113
  • Eugenia's slides: Preparing physics teachers for the 21st Century (Acrobat (PDF) 4.6MB Jun1 15)
  • ISLE paper (Acrobat (PDF) 1.2MB Jun1 15)
  • Millikan Paper (Acrobat (PDF) 417kB Jun1 15)
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    ISLE Physics Network
    College Physics, an ISLE-based physics textbook and active learning guide, as well as a user website for the book
    Physics U(nion) Math
    Video website 
    Website with labs and rubrics
    PhysTEC modules
    
• InTeGrate Education and Sustainability Modules Anne Egger (CWU), Jenny Dechaine (CWU), and Kathy Baldwin (EWU) Room 102
  • InTeGrate home page
  • Prepare Future Teachers, a resource to convince your disciplinary colleagues why they should get involved in teacher preparation.
  • InTeGrate-developed materials for integration in the undergraduate classroom, including two modules for use in methods courses.
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• Early Exposure to Teaching: Compass to Campus Cyndie Shepard (WWU) Room 103

12:00 pm Lunch

12:45 p.m. Report out from morning sessions

1:00 p.m. Learning Outcomes for Next Generation of STEM Teacher Preparation. Ed Geary

• Collaboration Culture Communication: Room 103
• Teaching, Pedagogy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Room 104
• Content, Subject Matter and Curriculum Goals: Room 112
• Guiding questions for each group to consider (also included on workspace pages):
  • What do you already do to achieve these outcomes?
  • What don't you do yet?
  • What suggestions do you have for additional/other pathways and strategies to achieve these outcomes?
  • How will you know when students have achieved these outcomes?

2:15 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. Return to groups to synthesize discussions

2:45 p.m. Whole group report-out on synthesis page

3:15 p.m. Next Generation Working Groups Working Groups (Summer-Fall 2015)

• Charge to Working Groups
• Goals, Norms, Tasks, Products
• Members and Facilitators

3:45 p.m. Meet your working group members, visit newly formed workspaces.
4:00 p.m. Adjourn