Designing Effective Science Instruction

PD Workshop

June 16-17, 2015

REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED

This session in Denver has been canceled. However, McREL staff can provide schools and districts with onsite or online consulting, coaching, and PD workshops on designing effective science instruction. Contact us at info@mcrel.org or call 800.858.6830.

Strengthen your art of science teaching and skills for designing and writing high-quality lessons by working with McREL's research-based C-U-E framework. Transform the effectiveness of one of your lessons or units in Content focus, strategies to increase student Understanding, and classroom Environment.  You'll leave this workshop empowered with new lessons, skills, and enthusiasm.

In McREL's Designing Effective Science Instruction workshop, you'll:

• Learn through doing.

• Participate in a variety of science activities to evaluate and gain insights into the characteristics of effective lessons.

• Discuss the research on effective science teaching that you can use in evaluating lessons you teach, transforming prepared lessons, and designing new lessons.

• Practice using McREL’s research-based C-U-E framework on three key lesson planning areas (Content • Understanding • Environment) to quickly and effectively improve student achievement in science. 

• Examine and discuss these questions:
  • What are the characteristics of a high quality science lesson?
  • What is the important science content that students should be learning?
  • How do students best develop conceptual understanding in science?
  • What kind of classroom environment should science teachers be providing?

• Create a personal professional development plan for putting together lessons and units that will enhance your effectiveness in teaching science. 

• Become comfortable using this framework to diagnose and strengthen areas in your lesson planning that will have an immediate benefit to your students.  

Who should attend?
Recommended for K-12 science teachers, science curriculum coordinators, STEM program leaders, and professional development staff.

Registration fee
$299 per person. Includes continental breakfast, lunch, and materials.

• Receive a 10% discount per person for a group of three or more people from the same district.

College and Continuing Education Credits
Continuing education credit is available at no charge. 1.0 college credit from Colorado School of Mines is available for an additional $50 tuition fee.

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