Becoming a Better Science Teacher:
Eight Steps to High Quality Instruction

All of our training opportunities are site-specific. That is, the content is tailored to the expressed needs of the participants, and it is delivered to your site.

Carefully crafted instructional units with lessons that address important standards and learning goals and use a variety of methods and strategies for learning are powerful tools for increasing student achievement in science.

This workshop introduces eight research-based indicators of high quality teaching and aligns them with practical strategies that can be used to guide teaching toward meaningful learning.

Interactive activities, models, charts, graphic organizers, discussion, and reflection are used to create a vision of high quality standards-based curriculum and instruction.

Participants will analyze lessons using a rubric for high quality and take away model lessons, resources, and ideas to apply to their curriculum and classroom practice.

Participants will gain a greater understanding of:

• The nature of science and the role of standards
• Methods, strategies, and effective practices for improving science instruction and assessment
• Tools and strategies for differentiating instruction, creating meaning, and enhancing reading, writing and math skills through inquiry-based science
• Ways to use classroom assessments as tools for learning
• Ways to create safe, supportive, and challenging environments for increasing student achievement

For more information, or to schedule this training, contact
PDK Professional Development at 800/766-1156
E-mail: PDKProfessionalDevelopment@pdkintl.org

Graduate Credit is available for this workshop. Call for details.

Our Mission:
We know, we believe, and we support that professional development is an intentional process, that it is ongoing, and that it is systemic. We know that it must be integrated within school improvement planning and it must focus on student improvement. It must be based on well-documented research, and it must be tailored to the needs of the participants and delivered to them at their site.