ECED Pre K – 2^nd Grades Workshops

Early Childhood Forum I: Young Engineers at Work!  YES! They really can! And YOU can, too!

Audience:  PreK, Head Start to 2^nd Grade Teachers; Directors and Administrators

Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Time:  8:30 AM – 3:30PM; Lunch on your own

Location: TIU 11 EdTech Center

Presented by: Peney Wright

Learn Inquiry-Based Methods to teach science and engineering practices that naturally integrate math and technology as investigative tools.  Use the Engineering Design Process of “Tinker – Make – Improve” to try two engaging, simple and FUN engineering challenges.  Experience the student-centered creative side and the teacher- focused planning side.  Includes a list of picture books to add to your classroom library and ideas to use in your classroom immediately.

Note:  Please be sure to bring a device: cell phone, tablet/iPad, laptop…

Early Childhood Forum II: STEM/STEAM: Linking STEM Learning to Literacy and Using Formative Assessments

Audience:  PreK, Head Start to 2^nd Grade Teachers; Directors and Administrators

Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Time:  8:30 AM – 3:30PM

Location: TIU 11 EdTech Center

Presented by: Peney Wright

Learn Inquiry-Based Methods to teach science and engineering practices that naturally integrate math and technology as investigative tools.  Link STEAM to a select children’s picture book. Use the Engineering Design Process of “Tinker – Make – Improve” to solve a real-world engineering challenge related to the story’s central problem.  Review STEAM lessons with “6 Characteristics of a Great STEM Lesson.”  Evaluate a variety of assessment strategies and tools to meet your students’ and lessons’ needs.  Includes a list of picture books to add to your classroom library and ideas to use in your classroom immediately.

Note:  Please be sure to bring a device: cell phone, tablet/iPad, laptop…

Early Childhood Forum III: STEM/STEAM: Linking STEM Learning to Literacy and Defending or Arguing a Science Claim

Audience:  PreK, Head Start to 2^nd Grade Teachers; Directors and Administrators

Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Time:  8:30 AM – 3:30PM

Location: TIU 11 EdTech Center

Presented by: Peney Wright

Integrate ELA standards with STEAM… to make it STREAM… R=Reading and wRiting!  Learn how to make STEAM the anchor of your literacy block as the focus of instruction, periodically throughout the school year.  Use both the PDE Engineering Design Process and “Tinker – Make – Improve” to solve a real-world engineering challenge related to a story’s central problem.  In the role of the teacher, assess the engineering lesson portion and review additional assessment strategies and tools.  As a summative assessment, use the method of Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (C-E-R) to help students synthesize their STREAM learning.  Graphic organizers support the teacher and students in making defending and arguing a science or engineering concept transparent.  Includes a list of picture books to add to your classroom library and ideas to use in your classroom immediately.

Note:  Please be sure to bring a device: cell phone, tablet/iPad, laptop…

Elementary Workshops

Elementary Forum I: STEM/STEAM: 21^st Century Skills for Students Embedded in STEM/STEAM Project- Based Learning

Audience: 2^nd – 5^th Grade Teachers; Administrators

Date: Thursday, September 14, 2017

Time:  8:30 AM – 3:30PM

Location: TIU 11 EdTech Center

Presented by: Peney Wright

Learn Inquiry-Based Methods to teach science and engineering practices that naturally integrate math and technology as investigative tools.  Use the Engineering Design Process of “Tinker – Make – Improve” to solve an engineering challenge based on a story’s central problem.  Make connections between the four core 21^st Century Skills of collaboration and teamwork, creativity and imagination, critical thinking, and problem solving with steps of the engineering design process.  Learn how STEAM is problem based learning (PBL) at its foundation.  Experience the student-centered creative side of engineering and the teacher- focused planning side.  Includes a list of children’s literature to add to your classroom library and ideas to use in your classroom immediately.

Note:  Please be sure to bring a device: cell phone, tablet/iPad, laptop…

Elementary Forum II: STEM/STEAM TWO-FER!

• Student Data Collection, Interpreting and Analyzing
• Teachers’ Formative and Summative Assessments

Audience: 2^nd – 5^th Grade Teachers; Administrators

Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Time:  8:30 AM – 3:30PM

Location: TIU 11 EdTech Center

Presented by: Peney Wright

Learn Inquiry-Based Methods to teach science and engineering practices that naturally integrate math and technology as investigative tools.  Review, brainstorm, and share variety of models for data collection and STEAM assessment tools and strategies.  Use both the PDE Engineering Design Process and “Tinker – Make – Improve” to solve a real-world engineering challenge related to a story’s central problem.  Teams present results.  Assess our engineering challenge with two tools.  Includes a list of children’s literature to add to your classroom library, assessment models, and ideas to use in your classroom immediately.

Note:  Please be sure to bring a device: cell phone, tablet/iPad, laptop…

Elementary Forum III: STEM/STEAM: Student Collaboration and Defending & Arguing Science/Engineering Concepts Through Analytic Reasoning

Audience: 2^nd – 5^th Grade Teachers; Administrators

Date: Thursday, September 28, 2017

Time:  8:30 AM – 3:30PM

Location: TIU 11 EdTech Center

Presented by: Peney Wright

Learn techniques promoting student collaboration through “Science Talks.” Review and brainstorm lists of prompts and questions to promote strategic and analytic reasoning during science investigations and engineering challenges. Use the PDE Engineering Design Process to solve a real-world engineering challenge related to a story’s central problem.  Teams present results.  Assess our engineering challenge with evaluation tools.  Learn to defend or argue science and engineering concepts from evidence.  Use whole group discussions and the Claims-Evidence-Reasoning (C-E-R) method with easy to implement graphic organizers.  Learn how and when to engage students’ rigorous thinking age appropriately with C-E-R.  Includes a list of children’s literature to add to your classroom library, assessment models, CER graphic organizers, CER examples and ideas to use in your classroom immediately.

Note:  Please be sure to bring a device: cell phone, tablet/iPad, laptop…

Middle School Workshops

Middle School Forum II: STEM/STEAM: Student and Teacher Data Collection: 1) Students collecting quantitative and qualitative date then analyzing and 2) Teachers’ Formative and Summative Assessments

Audience: 6^th – 8^th Grade Teachers; Administrators

Date: Thursday, October 12, 2017

Time:  8:30 AM – 3:30PM

Location: TIU 11 EdTech Center

Presented by: Peney Wright

Participants will engage in an Engineering Challenge to create a moving model showing cycling through all 4 of Earth’s spheres or systems in three dimensional space.  Use Illustrative Journaling or Storyboarding, in the role of the student, to chronicle learning progression and, in the role of the teacher, to formatively assess student development towards mastery of concepts/standards.  Use of engineering “Job Roles” will be utilized.  Teams will present their model and what was discovered to the group.  Additional models of assessment strategies and tools will be shared.  Includes a list of resources and ideas to use in your classroom immediately.

Note:  Please be sure to bring a device: cell phone, tablet/iPad, laptop…

Middle School Forum III: STEM/STEAM: Student Collaboration Through Analytic Reasoning and Defending & Arguing Science/Engineering Concepts Using C-E-R

Audience: 6^th – 8^th Grade Teachers; Administrators

Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Time:  8:30 AM – 3:30PM

Location: TIU 11 EdTech Center

Presented by: Peney Wright

Learn and apply strategic and analytical prompts and questions to guide student collaboration during science investigations and engineering challenges.  Incorporate these strategies while solving an engineering challenge to create a remotely controlled vehicle to explore a planet of choice.  Further employ rigorous class discussion and collaboration to defend the science concepts used and engineering choices made using the Claims-Evidence-Reasoning (C-E-R) method.  CER includes easy to implement graphic organizers that translate to expository paragraph writing.  Learn how and when to engage students’ rigorous thinking along a developmentally appropriate, progressive continuum of ability expectations with CER.  Includes a list of resources, assessment models, CER graphic organizers, CER examples and ideas to use in your classroom immediately.

Note:  Please be sure to bring a device: cell phone, tablet/iPad, laptop…