Understanding by Design: Infusing College and Career Readiness Standards in Science Classrooms

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 aligned with the TEKS and needs more work, i.e., is not at a satisfactory instructional level. We will be taking that lesson and redesigning it to incorporate the above. In addition, we will be devising a classroom action research plan where participants will assess the effectiveness of the lesson and report the resuts 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 11:30 am, continuing until 1pm. The workshop will begin at noon and be followed by a dinner at   5 pm. Hotel accommodations for either July 8-9 or July 9-10 will be provided at the Omni Marina Tower Hotel in Corpus Christi. Travel by air or car will be reimbursed.

Contact Maria Biddle at (361) 825-2095 or maria.biddle@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 workshop is 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.