Organizing and Running Professional Development Workshops

Below are links to help you organize and run a workshop for professional development in your school district or in partnership with a local university.

Documents for peer leaders of inservices or workshops that are:

• 1 day or less

  Larry Dukerich's 2.5 hour workshop on density.

  Patty Blanton's outline for a workshop on Graphical Analysis for Windows.

  Advice for 2-hour presentations on Modeling Instruction.

  Earl legleiter's outline for a 2-hour presentation to science educators (2003).

  Download .sit file for Macs or Download .zip file for Windows machines Don Yost's constructivist workshop on density for all K-16 teachers. (You may need to use Stuffit Expander to expand the .sit archive. Use Winzip to expand the .zip archive.)

  Jamie Vesenka's 1.5 hour workshop on electric circuits. description power point

• 1 day to 1 week

  Download Hal Eastin's description of how in-service for physics teachers occurs at his school district. (2008)

  Download Kelli Gamez Warble's 1-week modeling workshop for all science and math teachers in her rural high school.

• Longer than 1 week

Download Bob Baker's 8-day modeling workshops for elementary school teachers in his district.

Documents for persons who want to seek funding and organize a Modeling Workshop.

• Funding sources (2008)
• 3-4 weeks Modeling workshop in mechanics:

  Download : sample proposal, daily calendar.

• 3 week Physical Science with Math Modeling Workshop (Jr. High and 9th grade)
Download : sample proposal, daily calendar.



Documents to use in various workshops
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Experiences Surveys: chemistry, physical science, physics year 2, mechanics
Workshop Evaluation forms: physical science, chemistry, mechanics, E & M
Contact Hour Letter

last modified 7/5/08

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