CONNECT-ED
Professional Development in Science and Mathematics
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO ALL INVOLVED IN SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT.
Second Annual CONNECT-ED Conference
“Big Ideas in Science and Mathematics”
Keynote Speakers: Bill Schmidt, Ph.D., National Research Coordinator
and Executive Director of the U.S.NationalCenter(TIMSS),
distinguished professor at MichiganStateUniversity
Wendy Saul, Ph.D., Allen B. and Helen S. Shopmaker
Endowed Professor,Division of Teaching and Learning,
University of Missouri-St. Louis; Co-author of Beyond the Science Kit
Friday, October 27, 2006 (8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
RiderUniversity, Lawrenceville, NJ
Registration Deadline: Friday, September 29, 2006
Who Should Attend?
All with a stake in K-16 science & math teaching and learning:
K-12 Teachers of Science and MathematicsSuperintendents of Schools
Private School Heads/Executive DirectorsBoard of Education Members
Curriculum and Instruction AdministratorsProfessional Development Directors
Teacher Preparation/School of Education leadersScience and Math Supervisors
Higher Education Faculty: science, math, educationState, County, and Local Education Leaders
Science and Technology related Industry Leaders
RiderUniversity is the lead institution in the Consortium for New Explorations in Coherent Teacher Education (CONNECT-ED). CONNECT-ED is dedicated to providing high quality, sustained, coherent professional development for K-16 teachers of science and mathematics.
CONNECT-ED Consortium Members:
Public School Districts/Independent Schools: City of Burlington Public Schools, East Windsor Regional School District, Ewing Township School District, Hillsborough Township Public Schools, Hopewell Valley Regional School District, Lawrence Township Public Schools, Montgomery Township School District, Newgrange School, The Pennington School Princeton Regional Schools, South Brunswick Township Public Schools, Trenton Public Schools, Warren Township Schools, Washington Township Board of Education, and West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Schools
High Education Institutions: RiderUniversity, PrincetonUniversity, RaritanValleyCommunity College
Corporate Partner: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Community Partners: MercerCounty Educational TechnologyTrainingCenter, Science To Go
CONNECT-ED is supported by grants from: 3M, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Martinson Family Foundation, NJ Department of Education “P12/Higher Education-Public School Partnership,” and The Wachovia Foundation
“Teachers and Teaching Initiative.”
CONNECT-ED
Professional Development in Science and Mathematics
“If identifying a set of ‘enduring, connected ideas’ is critical to effective educational design, it is a task not just for teachers, but also for the developers of curricula, text books, and other instructional materials; universities and other teacher preparation institutions; and the public and private groups involved in developing subject matter standards for students and their teachers.”
National Research Council. (2005). How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom. Committee on How People Learn, A Targeted Report for Teachers, M.S. Donovan and J.D. Bransford, Editors. Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Come to the Second Annual CONNECT-ED Conference to learn more about the “big ideas” in mathematics and science and how to use them as organizing principles for teacher professional development, district curricula, and student learning.
Choose from Three Tracks
See the attached conference schedule and registration form to select and schedule your day’s program.
TRACK I: What’s the Big Idea? Attend a CONNECT-ED Mini-Institute (a full dayprogram)
The CONNECT-ED Consortium has developed a unique model for professional development. The central element of the model is the CONNECT-ED “Big Idea Module” (BIM), which traces a single Big Idea in science or math across the elementary, middle and high school levels. At the same time, participants engage in inquiry-based classroom activities that explore the big idea at all three grade levels in developmentally appropriate ways. CONNECT-ED: It’s all about connections!
Description: Do you want to build your content knowledge in mathematics? Would you like to see inquiry based teaching/learning modeled? Would you like to know more about what a CONNECT-ED Big Idea Module (BIM) looks like? In this full-day track you will experience a Big Idea Module that focuses on Perfections and Discreprencies. Participants will experience rich hands-on activities and use technology to connect patterns and relationships at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. They will see patterns and relationships as: the solutions to problems; models to represent data; and approximations to curves. Activities, directions, and questions at each level will be shared. The BIM was designed and is presented by the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District CONNECT-ED Design Team.
Presenters: Poonam Kapoor, Grade 3, Maurice Hawk Elementary School;Bill Maloney, Grades 7-8, Thomas R. Grover Middle School;Carol Reichmann, High School Teacher, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South;Barbara Braverman,Math Supervisor Grades 4-8, Community Middle School;David Argese, Math/Science Supervisor Grades K-3, Millstone River School;and John Fields, Senior Member Technical Staff, Vision Technology, Sarnoff Corporation.
Recommended for: All audiences. Registration is limited to 24 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.
TRACK 2: Professional Enrichment(Full DayPrograms)
Session A: CSI: Climate Status Investigations
Description: Participants will gain confidence to introduce the topic of global climate change in your classroom in this interactive session! Conflict resolution, mediation, role playing, lab activities, hands-on, inquiry-based activities, and small group work can all be a part of your high school classroom. Learn how to provide your students new ways of thinking about the problem and potential solutions in a non-biased way through an exploratory curriculum module developed by The Keystone Center in partnership with the US Dept of Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory.
Presenter: Ellen Reid, Senior Associate, The Keystone Center-Center for Education, Professional Education and Leadership Division, Keystone, Colorado; Rachel Pokrandt, Senior Associate, The Keystone Center-Center for Education, Professional Education and Leadership Division, Keystone, Colorado
Recommended for: All involved inHigh School Science
Session B: Hands-on Science Assessment in Your Classroom
Description:An overview of rubrics, graphic organizers and other assessment toolsthat meet the needs of the classroom teacher in assessing science. A hands-on activity will be conducted to experience the development of an assessment. Tips for adaptationto meet the needs of students at any grade level will be presented. View how an assessment advances the expectations for the learneras the grade level increases from K-12.
Presenter: Ann Harris, District Elementary Science Specialist for HillsboroughTownshipSchool District, AutenRoadIntermediateSchool
Recommended for:Teachers K-12 with an interest in creating effective assessments for authentic learning in science
Session C: Can Students Learn Rigorous Content Through Inquiry-based
Experiences?
Description: In today’s accountability environment, teachers are sometimes skeptical that students can learn important science concepts through scientific inquiry. In this full-day session, participants will engage in an interactive, inquiry-based experience that leads to an evidence-based explanation of an important science concept. Participants will become familiar with the Essential Features of Inquiry from the National Science Education Standards (NSES) that help students understand and experience the nature of science. We will leave time for a discussion of the issues facing teachers in implementing inquiry-based science in the classroom.
Presenter: NancyLandes, Ph.D., Director, Biological Science Curriculum Study (BSCS) Center for Professional Development, Jody Bintz, BSCS, Science Educator
Recommended for:This session addresses science content for high school and upper middle school teachers. The content of the session is physical science; however, the session is applicable to teachers from all science disciplines who are interested in exploring the benefits and constraints of inquiry-based science.
TRACK 3: Professional Enrichment (Half Day Programs) Choose one morning and one afternoon session.
Session D (morning only): Assessment and Connecting the Big Ideas in STC and STC/MS Modules: Energy Transformations and Electric Circuits
Description: What strategies can we use to find out what children know? How can we implement these strategies as students develop their conceptual understanding of a particular big idea at different grade levels?
A team from the National Science Resources Center (NSRC) has developed a new workshop that will lead participants through a series of inquiries that form a conceptual strand in the STC and STC/MS curricula. The session will focus on hands-on inquiries that explore electrical circuits and energy transformations in electrical circuits in the elementary and middle school grades. Participants will share their experiences, identify concepts addressed by the inquiries, and discuss formative and summative assessment strategies to gauge student understanding of electrical energy and circuit concepts.
Facilitator: Dane Toler, Consultant for the NationalScienceResourcesCenter (NSRC)/Professional Development Center, Washington, D.C.
Recommended for: All audiences, in particular those involved in elementary and middle school science education and curriculum development.
Session E (afternoon only): Effectively Implementing New Curricula: A Discussion Forum
Description:Changing/improving curricula is a common event in districts and most district leaders and the teachers they work with have had experiences in this realm. But effective change is very difficult to accomplish. And while best practices to do so have been documented, real implementation requires adaptations to a district's specific needs and resources. Join us for a discussion of: best practices, adapting to your specific district needs, how you know if the changes were effective, lessons learned, etc., and find colleagues you can network with as your district works through curriculum change.
Recommended for: Both teachers and administrators are welcome! Selected leaders in the region will be invited to lead the discussion and registrants will be encouraged to actively participate.
Session F (morning only): Fertilize Your Teaching This Fall: Literacy in Science Classes
Description: Help your students deepen their understanding of the science concepts you teach them by incorporating literacy strategies into your classes. We will explore a variety of oral and written activities for focusing students’ attention, solidifying and extending their knowledge, and connecting it to other disciplines and their worlds.
Presenters: Carol Brown, Ph.D., Associate Dean, RiderCollege of Liberal Arts, Education, and Sciences
Recommended for: All audiences
Session G (afternoon only):Keeping It Simple: Projects and Technology in the Science Classroom
Description: This workshop will showcase NJ CCC-based simple science projects relevant to learners’ experiences. Each project will focus on the developmental progression of the concept/s making connections within and across grade-levels and subjects. Appropriate technologies will be demonstrated with some time set aside for participants’ physical and mental engagement with the projects and the technologies. Each participant will receive a CD with data-sheets, hand-outs, web-links and state, national and international released items (test questions).
Facilitator: Anjana G. Arora, Ph. D., Assistant Professor Teacher Education, Stockton College of NJ, consultant with the Mercer County Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC).
Recommended for: All involved in K-8 science
Session H* (morning): Using the Interactive Science Notebook
Session I* (afternoon): This is a repeat of Session H: Using the Interactive Science Notebook
Description: Participants will learn the nature of the Interactive Science Notebook: set up, both teacher and student generated assessment, left side "output strategies,”personalization techniques, and pedagogical justification. Participants will engage in a combination of constructivist hands-on exercises to reinforce notebooking strategies, will read current literature on the topic and view many examples of student-generated notebooks. Participants will relate the use of the interactive notebook to the CONNECT-ED Big Idea concept, as well asto their own personal teaching styles and strategies.
Presenters: Rob Chesbro, 8th Grade Teacher, MontgomeryMiddle School; Amy Wish, Math/Science Supervisor K-8, BranchburgTownshipSchool District
Recommended for: All involved in Middle and High School Science
Session J (morning only): Cerebrodiversity in the Classroom: Lessons from Neuroscience
Description: This presentation will focus on the latest findings of neuroscience showing developmental variation in human brains. Participants will understand the anatomical basis for the differences seen in the way that children process information and learn. Dyslexia will be used to illustrate this point. The importance of multi-sensory, inquiry-based teaching and learning methods will be stressed.
Presenter: Gordon Sherman, Ph.D., Executive Director of the NewgrangeSchool and EducationCenter, Princeton, N.J.
Recommended for: All audiences
Session K (afternoon only): Enhancing Science Knowledge Through Developing
Metacognitive Skills
Description: Teachers in this workshop will understand the critical elements of the Developing Metacognitive Skills (DMS) Program, which was designed to enhance reading comprehension through interactive lessons that promote vocabulary, fluency, writing and study skills. This method has been effective in enhancing achievement of students in elementary through high school grades. Participants will engage in an actual DMS lesson to have a clear understanding of the benefits of this method in promoting science education.
Presenter: Dee Ledet-Rosenberg, Director of Education, NewgrangeSchool and EducationCenter, Princeton, N.J.
Recommended for: All audiences
Session L* (morning):Formative Assessment for Learning
Session M*(afternoon): This is a repeat of Session L: Formative Assessment for Learning
Description:This workshop will focus on the role of classroom assessment in the teaching/learning process. It will consider how the teacher gains information about students’ learning and how the student gains information about how to improve.
Presenter: Willa Spicer,Executive Director of New JerseyPerformance Assessment Alliance
Recommended for: All Audiences
Travel to RiderUniversity
- Travel information and a RiderUniversity campus map can be found at: (click on “Get Directions” at the very top of the page).
- Follow the signs to conference parking. Van service will be available for those requiring assistance upon arrival and/or departure.
For more information, please contact:
RiderUniversityTeaching & LearningCenter
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ08648
Phone: 609-896-5333
Fax: 609-896-5334
e-mail:
CONNECT-ED
Professional Development in Science and Mathematics
Conference Schedule
8 – 8:30 / 8:30 – 10:00 / 10:15 – 12:15 / 12:15 – 1:45 / 2:00 – 4:00Registration
Continental Breakfast
Location:
BartLuedekeStudentCenter (BLC), Cavalla Room Foyer / Welcome
Isaac Newton Awards Presentation
Keynote: Wendy Saul
Location: Cavalla Room / TRACK 1: Full Day Session
CONNECT-ED Mini-Institute
Location: BMSCenter for Science Teaching & Learning, Room 316 (ScienceBuilding) / Keynote:
Bill Schmidt
AndLunch
Location: Cavalla Room
/ TRACK 1:Full Day Session (continued)
CONNECT-ED Mini- Institute
Location: BMSCenter for Science Teaching & Learning, Room 316 (ScienceBuilding)
TRACK 2: Professional Enrichment (Full Day Sessions) / TRACK 2: Professional Enrichment (Full Day SessionsContinued)
Session A CSI: Climate Status Investigations
Location: Room 257, BLC / (Session A continued)CSI: Climate Status Investigations
Location: Room 257, BLC
Session BHands on Science Assessment in Your Classroom
Location: BMS-CSTL Room 310/311 / (Session B continued)Hands on Science Assessment in Your Classroom
Location: BMS-CSTL Room 310/311
Session C Can Students Learn Rigorous Content Through Inquiry-based Experiences?
Location: Fireside Lounge, BLC / (Session C continued) Can Students Learn Rigorous Content Through Inquiry-based Experiences?
Location: Fireside Lounge, BLC
TRACK 3:Professional Enrichment (Half Day Sessions) / TRACK 3:Professional Enrichment(Half Day Sessions)
Session DAssessment and Connecting the Big Ideas in STC and STC/MS Modules: Energy Transformations and Electric Circuits
Location:259, BLC / Session E Effectively Implementing New Curricula: A Discussion Forum
Location: 259, BLC
Session F Fertilize Your Teaching This Fall: Literacy in Science Classes
Location: BMS-CSTL Room 317 / Session GKeeping It Simple: Projects and Technology in the Science Classroom
Location: BMS-CSTL Room 317
Session H Using the Interactive Science Notebook
Location: Multicultural CenterConference Room, BLC / Session I*(repeat ofmorning Session H)Using the Interactive Science Notebook
Location: Multicultural Center Conference Room, BLC
Session J Cerebrodiversity in the Classroom: Lessons from Neuroscience
Location: Sweigart Hall Auditorium / Session K Metacognition in the Disciplines
Location: Sweigart Hall Auditorium
Session L Formative Assessment for Learning
Location: Sweigart Hall Room 208 / Session M*(repeat of morning Session L)Formative Assessment for Learning
Location: Sweigart Hall Room 208
CONNECT-ED
Professional Development in Science and Mathematics
Second Annual CONNECT-ED Conference Registration Form
**DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: Friday, September 29, 2006**
REGISTRANT INFORMATION
Name:______Position/Title:______
School District, University, or other institutional affiliation:______
K-12 School in which you work: ______Grade(s) you work with:______
Institution Mailing Address:______
Town ______State ______Zip ______
Work Phone: (_____) ______Fax: (_____) ______email:______
Indicate: □K-12 Teacher □K-12 Admin □Higher Ed Faculty □Higher Ed Admin □Other: ______
I work primarily in: □ Science □Mathematics □Both □Other: ______
PROGRAM SELECTION
Important Directions and Notes:
Please look at the conference grid and decide whether you would like to attend one full day sessionortwo half day sessions.
- Some morning sessions are repeated in the afternoon with a different session letter to enable a large number of registrants to attend these popular sessions.
Please indicate your first choice below *. Every effort will be made to accommodate your first choice. If your first choice is unavailable, please indicate below your second choice**.
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