Professional Development

Does the promise of competency-based PD outweigh the challenges to implementing it? Do we really want competency-based PD or just more effective, sustained, job-embedded PD like instructional coaching, lesson study, and the like. Read this blog by Meg S. Bates as she ponders these questions and more.

Variations of this slide deck were used in 3 different presentations this summer about the Teachers with Guts project:

• Agent-based modeling in StarLogo Nova. MIT Nord-Anglia Teacher Program. (2016)
• Introducing Project GUTS. MIT Science and Engineering Program for Teachers. (2016)
• Infusing Computational Thinking into Science Classrooms. ISTE Conference.  (2016)

This presentation on "Supporting the Intersections between Computer Science and the NGSS" was presented at the NSTA STEM Forum & Expo in Minneapolis, MN. (2015)  

The Santa Fe Institute has been developing programs and curricula that infuse computational thinking into Science education for the past 12 years. In this webinar, presenters describe how the study of Complex Adaptive Systems through computer modeling and simulation fits into existing science frameworks and classes, share information about their program and curricula, and describe the professional development needed to prepare Science teachers to address the computational thinking practices presented in the NRC framework and NGSS.

This appendix of the California Science Framework focuses on Computer Science in Science.

Citation: Lee, I.2016. California Science Framework. Appendix 5: Computer Science in Science  Retrieved on 11-15-16 at http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/sc/cf/scifw2nd60daypubreview.asp

Chapter 7 of the publication Engineering Instruction for High-Ability Learners in K-8 Classrooms, this chapter written by Irene Lee and April DeGennaro focuses on computer science, coding, and project-based learning for engineering instruction.

Citation: Lee, I. & DeGennaro, A. 2016. Computer Science, Coding, and Project-Based Learning for Engineering Instruction. In Dailey, D. & Cotabish, A. (Eds.), Engineering Instruction for High-Ability Learners in K-8 Classrooms.  Prufrock Press. Austin, TX. 

Chapter 7 of the publication Engineering Instruction for High-Ability Learners in K-8 Classrooms, this chapter written by Irene Lee and April DeGennaro focuses on computer science, coding, and project-based learning for engineering instruction.

Citation: Lee, I. & DeGennaro, A. 2016. Computer Science, Coding, and Project-Based Learning for Engineering Instruction. In Dailey, D. & Cotabish, A. (Eds.), Engineering Instruction for High-Ability Learners in K-8 Classrooms.  Prufrock Press. Austin, TX.

This article, Reclaiming the Roots of CT, is part of a CSTA Voice bi-monthly publication, where Lee argues for a focused definition of CT that clearly distinguishes it from other forms of thinking.

Citation: Lee, I. 2016. Reclaiming the roots of CT. CSTA Voice: The Voice of K–12 Computer Science Education and Its Educators, 12(1), 3–4. Retrieved on 11-3-2016 from http://www.csteachers.org/resource/resmgr/Voice/csta_voice_03_2016.pdf

Chapter 7 of the publication Engineering Instruction for High-Ability Learners in K-8 Classrooms, this chapter written by Irene Lee and April DeGennaro focuses on computer science, coding, and project-based learning for engineering instruction.

Citation: Lee, I. & DeGennaro, A. 2016. Computer Science, Coding, and Project-Based Learning for Engineering Instruction. In Dailey, D. & Cotabish, A. (Eds.), Engineering Instruction for High-Ability Learners in K-8 Classrooms.  Prufrock Press. Austin, TX. 

This appendix of the California Science Framework focuses on Computer Science in Science.

Citation: Lee, I.2016. California Science Framework. Appendix 5: Computer Science in Science  Retrieved on 11-15-16 at http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/sc/cf/scifw2nd60daypubreview.asp