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July 21
- Develop and share individual goals for the ECAS
Workshop
- Identify services and resources available through
CSE.
- Understand the scientific method as a problem-solving
strategy
- Reflect on student roles in group work
- Describe and
compare ways to structure group work in the classroom
- Describe
and compare strategies to motivate students
- Define criteria for
evaluating web resources
- Explore and identify Internet resources
on the scientific method and science fair projects
- Evaluate selected
Internet resources based on defined criteria
- Experience active
learning techniques and discuss the benefits and challenges
of their use in the classroom
- Reflect on Day One goals
July 22
- Report and discuss results of
Science Fair WebQuest
- Identify non-Internet resources and evaluate
with resource evaluation criteria
- Identify the steps of the scientific
method and concepts of experimental design (e.g. control, sample
size)
- Design a science fair project using the steps of
the scientific method
- Evaluate video resources used during workshop
- Devise
a strategy to incorporate the day’s concepts into
a lesson plan for students.
- Develop a peer education plan to share
workshop content with school colleagues
- Create an engaging presentation
to share implementation plans with workshop participants.
- Reflect
on Day Two goals
July 23
- Present and defend implementation plans
- Critique peer
presentations
- Enhance implementation plans with new ideas from
peer presentations
- Share enthusiasm and ideas with district and
university leadership
- Reflect on ECAS Workshop goals
- Evaluate ECAS Workshop
effectiveness and suggest strategies for improvement
Follow-up
- Apply workshop skills and concepts to classroom
instruction by executing implementation plan
- Offer a professional
development experience to school colleagues regarding ECAS
Workshop content,
according
to implementation
plan
- Reflect on implementation of lesson plans
and peer education plans and revise as necessary
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