Facilitating PD with NSTA Press Books Edward Rock

Facilitating PD with NSTA Press Books Edward Rock 703 -312 -9201 erock@nsta. org Local Contact – Petra Griffin February 2012

Professional Learning Communities Many models and styles – which are you using? • Late Start / Early Finish Meetings • School/District – University Partnership • Lesson Study • Reflection and Collaboration

Specific & Popular Topics and Titles Professional Learning Communities for Science Teaching

Picture Perfect & More Picture Perfect Science

Uncovering Student Ideas Page Keeley Formative Assessment Prompts Also available as an elicensed product for the school district’s server Astronomy is Coming

Brain Powered Science Discrepant Events with strong pedagogical support

ELL-ESL

Team Teaching This guide for developing successful team-teaching partnerships that maximize student learning will help preservice and inservice special education and science teachers in grades K– 12, as well as methods professors in science education programs who want to cover special needs issues in their curriculum.

Curriculum Topic Study Make the connection between science standards, teacher practice, and improved student achievement. This book offers a systematic professional development strategy that brings together science standards and research with curriculum, instruction, and assessment.