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
Sample handout for participants:
what Modeling Instruction is, where to take a Modeling Workshop.
Larry Dukerich's 2.5 hour workshop on density.(2008)
Don Yost's constructivist workshops on area, volume, density, and buoyancy
for all K-16 teachers (2003, 2008).
Jamie Vesenka's 1.5 hour workshop on electric circuits (2008). descriptionPowerPoint
Nicholas Park's half day workshop for K-12 science teachers, on density
(2008). descriptionPowerPoint Mark
Schober's half-day energy workshop: a model based
approach to energy instruction. Includes presentation slides (.pdf), handout,
sequence of energy labs, instructional sequence, example problems.
Larry Dukerich's 4-hour workshop on bonds
& the periodic table (2008)