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NGSX: Next Generation Science Exemplar
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Interested in shifting your instruction from a place where students are just “learning about” to one where they are “figuring out” the how and why? Please join VINS for the Next Generation Science Exemplar (NGSX) professional development course.
During this professional development course, participants will explore how to use natural phenomena to drive instruction, motivate learning, and help learners decide where to go next. This course encourages participants to engage as adult learners using the same best instructional practices used with students. These practices help learners freely share their ideas, reason together, persist through challenging tasks, and revise thinking over time. Overall goals of this course include developing indicators for student engagement in the core NGSS practices: planning, modeling, cause and effect and explanation. We will assist participants in building a culture of public reasoning and use tools for implementing productive small and whole group discussions.
This course is designed for teachers K-12.
For more information on NGSX, visit http://www.ngsx.org
Instructors: Hannah Gelroth, Director, VINS Center for Environmental Education & Jennifer Stainton, Curriculum Coordinator, Woodstock Union High School and Middle School
Dates: August 6-8, 2018 with two follow-up dates based on availability of participants
Format: In-person + online/independent format
Location: VINS Nature Center, Quechee VT
Tuition: $1,350 for graduate course; $975 for re-licensing credits. Scholarships are available.
During this professional development course, participants will explore how to use natural phenomena to drive instruction, motivate learning, and help learners decide where to go next. This course encourages participants to engage as adult learners using the same best instructional practices used with students. These practices help learners freely share their ideas, reason together, persist through challenging tasks, and revise thinking over time. Overall goals of this course include developing indicators for student engagement in the core NGSS practices: planning, modeling, cause and effect and explanation. We will assist participants in building a culture of public reasoning and use tools for implementing productive small and whole group discussions.
This course is designed for teachers K-12.
For more information on NGSX, visit http://www.ngsx.org
Instructors: Hannah Gelroth, Director, VINS Center for Environmental Education & Jennifer Stainton, Curriculum Coordinator, Woodstock Union High School and Middle School
Dates: August 6-8, 2018 with two follow-up dates based on availability of participants
Format: In-person + online/independent format
Location: VINS Nature Center, Quechee VT
Tuition: $1,350 for graduate course; $975 for re-licensing credits. Scholarships are available.
Independent Study in Science Instruction
This graduate level course supports teachers in the implementation and practice of the Next Generation Science Standards and is delivered as an extension to the VINS School Program. As an independent study, this course is centered on the needs of individual teachers and is flexible to adapt to their individual goals. We will focus on how we can use the NGSS to help students engage with the world around them as scientists and engineers. We will explore the NGSS in depth, identify the implications for instruction, find connections between CCSS and the NGSS, develop lessons aligned with the NGSS and reflect on the implementation of the NGSS in your classroom. This course is designed for teachers in grades Kindergarten through 8th grade.
Dates: Flexible and teacher dependent (offered in fall and spring semesters)
Format: In-person and online
Tuition: $820 for 2 Graduate Credits through Castleton University
$570 for 2 Relicensing Credits
This graduate level course supports teachers in the implementation and practice of the Next Generation Science Standards and is delivered as an extension to the VINS School Program. As an independent study, this course is centered on the needs of individual teachers and is flexible to adapt to their individual goals. We will focus on how we can use the NGSS to help students engage with the world around them as scientists and engineers. We will explore the NGSS in depth, identify the implications for instruction, find connections between CCSS and the NGSS, develop lessons aligned with the NGSS and reflect on the implementation of the NGSS in your classroom. This course is designed for teachers in grades Kindergarten through 8th grade.
Dates: Flexible and teacher dependent (offered in fall and spring semesters)
Format: In-person and online
Tuition: $820 for 2 Graduate Credits through Castleton University
$570 for 2 Relicensing Credits
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