STEM Education Professional Development - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math - Graduate Courses For Elementary Teachers Summer 2015 Be a STEM Leader in your School! Ignite and Invigorate your Practice with STEM Summer Courses Focusing on Common Core-Math, Next Generation Science Standards, Engineering, and Technology! Understanding the Next Understanding the Next Generation Science Generation Science Standards (NGSS): Standards (NGSS): Interactions and Change Over Time Systems Starts June— Multiple Locations Hybrid (3 in-person & 5 online) Understanding the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): World of Energy and Matter Starts June— Multiple Locations Hybrid (3 in-person & 5 online) Deepening Mathematics Understanding: Measuring Space in One, Two and Three Dimensions Starts June— Multiple Locations Hybrid (3 in-person & 5 online) Moving Science into the Next Generation Hybrid—Face-to-Face 6/22 & 29, Aug. 11 and Online Advancing STEM Instruction Through Engineering Design EXPLORE Aug. 17-21 Aug. 10 - 14 Deepening Mathematics Understanding: Reasoning Algebraically About Operations Place-Based Education: Authentic STEM in the Community STEM Aug. 11-14 Connect2Core: Elementary Math Aug. 10—14 Supporting English Language Learners and Equity Practices in STEM Aug. 3-7 July 22-26 Technology Enhanced Personalized Learning as a Pathway to STEM Success TEACH Hybrid—Face-to-Face Aug. 3-5 and Online Aug. 6 & 7 Integrating the Common Core and NGSS — through The Private Eye® July 27-31 Let us know your interest by completing the Summer 2015 Course Interest Survey on www.pdxstem.org Questions or Need Help? [email protected] Flyer Printing Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Portland Metro STEM Partnership/Portland State University Course Highlights Focus on Common Core-Math, Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Engineering & Technology Attends to both content and pedagogy and the ways in which pedagogy can support the learning of content Supports educators with varying levels of experience and prior knowledge Courses use a shared measurement system to identify teachers' increase in content knowledge and instructional practices For complete details visit: www.pdxstem.org Portland State University STEM EDUCATION COURSE DESCRIPTIONS DESIGNED FOR EDUCATORS WITH OR WITHOUT A MATH/SCIENCE BACKGROUND SCI 515 Understanding the Next Generation Science Standards: Energy & Matter K-6 4 credits Hybrid Math Science Partnership Instructional Science Specialist course Grant Sponsored Tuition Rate Multiple locations: Portland, South Salem and Newport What do we mean by pushes and pulls? Why do some things dissolve and other don’t? Where did those bubbles come from when I mix baking soda and vinegar? Answer these questions and gain a deeper conceptual understanding of the knowledge and skills in science needed to effectively teach the elementary level NGSS. Apply and extend your learning of the science with an emphasis on the higher order cognitive skills, scientific and engineering practices, and cross cutting ideas embedded in the disciplinary core idea learning progressions defined in the new standards. Focus on the disciplinary core ideas of Energy and Matter in physical, life and earth science. SCI 516 Understanding the Next Generation Science Standards: Change Over Time K-6 4 credits Hybrid Math Science Partnership Instructional Science Specialist course Grant Sponsored Tuition Rate Multiple locations: Portland, South Salem and Newport How do the continents move? Why are there so many different plants and animals? What causes waves? Answer these questions and gain a deeper conceptual understanding of the knowledge and skills in science needed to effectively teach the elementary level NGSS. Apply and extend your learning of the science with an emphasis on the higher order cognitive skills, scientific and engineering practices, and cross cutting ideas embedded in the disciplinary core idea learning progressions defined in the new standards. Focus on the disciplinary core ideas of waves, electromagnetic radiation, plate tectonics, and evolution. SCI 517 Understanding the Next Generation Science Standards: Interactions & Systems K-6 4 credits Hybrid Math Science Partnership Instructional Science Specialist course Grant Sponsored Tuition Rate Multiple locations: Portland, South Salem and Newport How does the sun affect weather? What are natural hazards and how do we live with them? How do people affect ecosystems? Answer these questions and gain a deeper conceptual understanding of the knowledge and skills in science needed to effectively teach the elementary level NGSS. Apply and extend your learning of the science with an emphasis on the higher order cognitive skills, scientific and engineering practices, and cross cutting ideas embedded in the disciplinary core idea learning progressions defined in the new standards. Focus on the disciplinary core ideas of interactions within solar, earth and eco-systems. SCI 810 Connect2Core-Elementary Math K-6 3 credits Focus on how students learn the basic operations and develop and make sense of computational algorithms as they extend from whole numbers to decimals. Also examined are the important foundations of place value, properties of operations, and number systems. Learn to distinguish between misconceptions and error patterns in student thinking and learn to orchestrate productive mathematical discussions through carefully planned lessons. Create lessons that integrate technology and other tools to support students’ learning of the Common Core Standards and Mathematical Practices. CI 510 Reasoning Algebraically About Operations K-6 3 credits Examine generalizations at the heart of the study of operations in the elementary grades. Express these generalizations in common language and in algebraic notation, develop arguments based on representations of the operations, study what it means to prove a generalization, and extend their generalizations and arguments when the domain under consideration expands from whole numbers to integers. Student thinking is at the center of this course through examination of student work and students at work (written and video cases). This course is part of the Elementary Mathematics Instructional Leader program and can be used toward either the TSPC specialization or a Deepening Mathematical Understanding for Elementary Teachers Graduate Certificate of Completion, http://www.pdx.edu/ceed/elementary-math. CI 510 Measuring Space in One, Two and Three Dimensions K-6 3 credits Examine different attributes of size, develop facility in composing and decomposing shapes, and apply these skills to make sense of formulas for area and volume. Explore conceptual issues of length, area, and volume, as well as their complex inter-relationships. Student thinking is at the center of this course through examination of student work and students at work (written and video cases).This course is part of the Elementary Mathematics Instructional Leader program and can be used toward either the TSPC specialization or a Deepening Mathematical Understanding for Elementary Teachers Graduate Certificate of Completion, http://www.pdx.edu/ceed/elementary-math. Integrating the Common Core and NGSS — through The Private Eye® K-12 3 credits Dandelions! Crickets! Eyeballs! Explore how to use this hands-on, interdisciplinary program to rev up student motivation, enrich content understanding, and heighten critical and creative thinking. Apply crosscutting ideas of analogies, patterns, scale and proportion, systems and models, and structure and function throughout science, math, and literacy. Focus on embedding the use of a jeweler's loupe and questioning strategies into literacy and art, STEM content areas, and scientific and mathematical practices. You will: 1) enhance student ability to build motivational bridges between content areas; 2) make investigations into content areas simpler, but sophisticated and scholarly; 3) develop students who naturally write-across-the curriculum with high-level results. You’ll design lesson plans that incorporate The Private Eye® process and activities to address specific learning targets for elementary students in STEM areas. And you’ll bring the Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core to life for all your students. (As part of a grant, participants receive a set of Private Eye loupes.) SCI 510: Place-Based Education: Authentic STEM in the Community 3-12 3 credits This course supports teachers to identify the connections between place-based education, STEM, and sustainability to engage students in authentic learning in their community. A variety of outdoor settings within the Portland-Metro area provide the study of nature and community from aesthetic, historic, and scientific perspectives. Content standards and practices and Next Generation Science Standards will be the backdrop to create integrated instruction across disciplines for elementary to high school levels. Participants will develop an understanding of the content learning progressions and the rich experiences that can be created by using place-based practices as a pathway for student engagement and achievement. Teachers will utilize a wide variety of community-based resources and develop instructional materials addressing placebased education and STEM to incorporate meaningful experiences into academic learning. Participants engage in both class and field programming, receiving philosophic and pragmatic organizational strategies for student success. SCI 510 Advancing STEM Through Engineering Design K-6 3 credits Learn about the engineering practices, disciplinary ideas and crosscutting concepts aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and the vertical progression of the standards and practices along with detailed grade level specific engineering design embedded lessons. Educators learn how to instruct and assess student progress towards the engineering components of the standards and gain strategies to help their students see themselves as engineers and discover the varied career options in the field of engineering. Cary Sneider, leader of the writing team for the engineering standards for NGSS, is a co-course creator and guest speaker. SCI 510 Moving Science into the Next Generation K-12 3 credits Hybrid Align to student performance expectations in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the correlate shifts in teacher instructional practices necessary to meet these new standards. Using a variety of digital, print, and collaborative learning formats (including video exemplars, student work samples and perspectives of scientists and engineers) participants increase their skills in incorporating the NGSS Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Disciplinary Ideas into their instruction. SCI 510 Supporting English Language Learners and Equity Practices in STEM K-12 3 credits Focus on the language practices that all English Language Learners must acquire to successfully engage in the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. Identify how to implement effective instructional strategies to engage students in the scientific and mathematical sense making and language use for teaching English to ELLs. Develop formative assessments to measure student progress in the development of essential academic language skills needed for success. Incorporate research-based instructional shifts to provide equitable learning opportunities for non-dominant student groups. SCI 510 Technology Enhanced Personalized Learning as a Pathway to STEM K-12 3 credits Hybrid As instruction expands beyond traditional boundaries, technology-enhanced personalized and student-centered learning focuses on providing all students with equitable access to the knowledge and skills to achieve success in STEM. Learn how technology can provide a powerful teaching tool to help diagnose and address individual needs, equip students with the essential skills for work and life in a 21st century global society, and provide an active experience for all students. Strategies will be explored for developing a classroom, school and district culture that promotes effective technology use and the adoption of new teaching practices through collaboration.
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