Professional Development Provider Institutes
Each Professional Development Provider Institute (PDPI) is a 4-day experience designed to support you as a PD provider by deepening your knowledge, increasing your confidence, and enhancing your abilities.
The goals of the series are to:
- Enhance understanding of research and literature underpinning the NGSS and increase ability to support teachers as they translate research into the classroom.
- Deepen understanding of phenomenon and problem-based, three-dimensional learning as described in NRC’s Framework and the NGSS.
- Deepen understandings and abilities to support teachers in using routines, strategies, tools, and processes for enacting phenomenon and problem-based, three-dimensional learning experiences with students.
- Strengthen abilities to design and lead professional learning programs that support teachers in taking on the instructional shifts called for in NRC’s Framework and the NGSS.
Who should participate?
- District science leaders
- Teacher leaders
- Science consultants
- University faculty
- PD leaders from informal science education institutions
What are the benefits?
By participating in this Institute, PD providers will:
- enhance their understanding of the research and literature underpinning the NGSS and be better able to support teachers’ translation of research into the classroom,
- deepen their understanding of all eight scientific and engineering practices laid out in the NGSS, and
- be part of a community that can support PD providers’ work.
After participating in the program, PD providers will be able to:
- plan, lead, and evaluate workshops that help teachers enact three-dimensional, phenomenon-based teaching and learning in their classrooms;
- use a variety of “close-to-the-classroom” routines and strategies to support teachers in strengthening their classroom practice;
- monitor and adjust plans based on data and understandings about leading change; and
- increase intentionality in leadership practices.
