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Pre-AP Workshops: Science
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Pre-AP: Strategies in Science -- Creating a Learner-Centered Classroom
This two-day workshop is designed to assist science teachers in creating a facilitative classroom that focuses on inquiry, encourages higher levels of thinking for all students, and orchestrates discourse through speaking, writing, and graphic representation. Specific strategies addressed include inquiry-based learning, discussion and discourse techniques, a five-stage instructional model, inductive thinking, discrepant events, brainstorming, assignment of roles in collaborative groups, and graphic organizers. The workshop provides strategies for designing and using meaningful investigations, writing dynamic problems, and enhancing current classroom activities so that students will develop a deeper understanding and produce more thoughtful responses. Teachers will gain a clear understanding of how successful students learn and how to develop those skills in others, as well as how to build relevant, informative assessments that allow teachers to monitor and foster scientific thinking without interrupting instruction. Workshop topics include engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration, and evaluation.
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 Pre-AP: Strategies in Science -- Creating a Learner-Centered Classroom
Pre-AP Topics for AP Vertical Teams® in Science
This one-day workshop is for teachers, counselors, and administrators interested in sequencing curricula and instruction to facilitate student preparedness for AP science courses and for college. Topics covered include density junctures, measuring devices, and national science standards. The workshop also addresses teaming activities such as sequencing, goal planning, and action plans. At the end of the workshop, participants will understand what an AP Vertical Team is and how to incorporate vertical sequencing into their curricula.
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Pre-AP Topics for AP Vertical Teams® in Science
Pre-AP: Strategies in Science -- Energy Systems
This one-day workshop was developed for high school science teachers interested in designing integrated, theme-based instruction to prepare students for AP science courses. The activities and discussions in this workshop are designed to help teachers identify concepts in energy that extend across all science subjects. At the end of the workshop, participants will understand how to identify energy concepts in biology, earth science, chemistry, and physics and how to make curriculum decisions to increase student achievement and better prepare students for AP science courses. Topics addressed include kinetic versus potential energy, heat versus temperature, bonding, and energy transformations in living systems.
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Pre-AP: Strategies in Science -- Energy Systems
Pre-AP: Strategies in Science -- Inquiry-Based Laboratories for Middle Schools
This one-day workshop introduces middle school science teachers to inquiry-based laboratory instruction. Through activities and discussions, participants will learn to use inquiry-based laboratories to teach science processing, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills to students and prepare them for the rigorous course work in high school and college. Topics addressed include laboratory roles, traditional versus inquiry-based laboratory activities, using inquiry-based labs to teach critical thinking skills, and assessing inquiry-based laboratory activities.
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Pre-AP: Strategies in Science -- Inquiry-Based Laboratories for Middle Schools
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