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Professional Development Programs

This page allows you to search across all of the profiles within the SERC Teacher Professional Development Program Collection. The materials below are sorted by topic, grade level, and program characteristics.

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GLOBE Program part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is an international program with over 100 global partners and over 100 US partners. US partners lead workshops and are located in school ...

COSEE Professional Development Networks part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
The Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) consists of a series of regional partnerships amongst scientists and educators. The central coordinating office of COSEE is run out of the Consortium for ...

SFSU SF-ROCKS Teacher Workshop part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
This workshop serves as a training institute for 9th grade science teachers who are new to the SF-ROCKS program. During the workshop, geoscience faculty introduce the SF-ROCKS lesson plans and projects. Teachers ...

Western Washington University Learning Resource Center part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
The Learning Resource Center is a large on-campus facility that houses state-of-the-art classrooms, teaching materials, over 15,000 books on science education and pedagogy, and hosts an extensive website. These ...

North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
The North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership (NCOSP) Program is a large, regional partnership between a university, four community colleges, 26 school districts, and other regional education agencies. The ...

IRIS Professional Development for Educators part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) is a consortium of over 100 research universities and institutions dedicated to monitoring the Earth and exploring its interior through the collection and ...

TERC: Science in Education - Online Master's Degree part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
Science Online: Science in Education Master's Degree Program is a program offered by Lesley University in collaboration with TERC. -

Time to Learn part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
Time to Learn is a professional development program that supports teachers in developing and implementing new curricular materials and teaching strategies. During the 3-week workshop, participants work on projects ...

Teacher Development Opportunities from TERC part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
A content page from the Teach the Earth portal detailing TERC's teacher development offerings, including online graduate programs, professional development courses like Earth Science from a New Perspective and Try Science, and contacts for science teacher preparation. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Carleton College Teaching Licensure Program for Earth and Space Science part of Teacher Preparation:Programs
This program considers teaching to be a liberal art which integrates a student's academic major, coursework in educational studies, and a closely-monitored student teaching experience. Upon completion of the ...