2010 Summer Science Workshops and Conferences

Date Posted: April 20, 2010

TWO DATES TO KEEP!!

JULY 9, 2010 Understanding by Design: Infusing College and Career Readiness Standards in Science Classrooms

Omni Bayfront Hotel, Corpus Christi

Noon - 6pm

This professional development session will incorporate elements from Understanding by Design (Wiggins and McTighe, 2005), How People Learn (National Research Council, 1999) and the Science College and Career Readiness Standards. Participants are to bring a science classroom lesson that they know they will be using during the Fall, 2010 semester - one that has a hands-on component (laboratory, for example), is alinged with the TEKS and needs more work, i.e., is not at a satisfactory ibstructional level. We will be taking that lesson and redesigning it to incorporate the above. In additionm we will be devising a classroom action research plan where participants will assess the effectiveness of the lesson and report the results to the PD leader. Please note participants will receive a $500.00 stipend to be disbursed upon receipt of assessment results/evaluation.

We will provide a light lunch beginning at 11:30am, continuining until 1pm. The workshop will begin at noon and be followed by a dinner at 5pm. Hotel accommodations for either July 8-9 or July 9-10 will be provided at the Omni Bayfront Hotel in Corpus Christi. Travel by air or car will be reimbursed.

The registration website will be announced shortly. Contact Sylvia Atkinson, 361.825.2142, sylvia.atkinson@tamucc.edu for questions about registration, accommodations or travel. Contact Cherie McCollough, 361.825.3166, cherie.mccollough@tamucc.edu for any questions about the workshop.

This warkshop are sponsored by the Texas College and Career Readiness Initiative: Science Faculty Collaborative, at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, an initiative funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

August 1-5, 2010 BCCE 2010: A New Decade for Opportunity

University of North Texas, Denton

The 21st Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) will be held August 1-5, 2010 at University of North Texas, Denton. BCCEs are sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemical Education and are the largest gathreing of chemical educators in the world. The Department of Chemistry at the University of North Texas is proud to host the 21st BCCE. These meetings are designed for the broad ChemEd community of researchers and practitioners from all academics levels (pre-college to college). If you've never attended one, now is the time! The conference educationm relates modern developments in chemistry to classroom instruction,m and is highly repected in the broader international education community.