Everest Immersive Experience

Session Goals and Outcomes:

• Participants refine their shared vision of key features of effective science teaching and learning as reflected in the PA STEELS standards.

• Participants increase knowledge and awareness of tools and resources that can lead to more effective science teaching and learning. 

Session Outline:

Opening & Connecting to Goals (15 min)

Effective Science Teaching and Learning (30 min)

Learner Experience (2 hr 15 min, including a 10-minute break)

Learner Debrief (30 min)

Lunch (1 hour)

Creating a Culture of Student Thinking (30 min)

Revising our Thinking (30 min)

Break (10 min)

Connecting to the STEELS Standards (40 min)

Content Team Debrief (30 min)

Closing (10 min)

Participant Testimony: 

"The flow and relevance allowed participants (acting as students) to led in their learning and explore/engage in the content (seismic simulation,  videos, reading). The materials used were also interesting and thought-provoking."

"I really enjoyed this professional developement session.  It tied in how to implement NGSS to our science curriculum and teaching.  I also thought that how to create a positive classroom culture was modeled extremely well through the video examples of the focused classroom."

"Key take aways from this session focused on phenomena-driven instruction rather than topic driven when creating and preparing instructional lessons. Phenomena-driven instruction is more student-centered learning with teacher playing the role of facilitator and guide toward meeting standards aligned proficiency. The phenomena-driven lens requires productive struggle on behalf of the learner where they learning to think critically to gain deeper understanding for application. Phenomena-driven practices explicitly address making learning more equitable and accessible to all learners."