Quality K16 Professional Development Online and Onsite Opportunities
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Quality K-16 Professional Development
Online and Onsite Opportunities
Online • NTEN Courses • Jason Academy • University of Maryland College of Life Sciences
Onsite • Albertson’s Food • • Safety Science Inquiry Webwatchers
NSTA Program funded by the National Science Foundation over the three years NSTA Program funded by the National Science Foundation
The Need • Currently over 4 billion web pages on the net • Pages being added at rate of 7. 3 million per day! Sizing the Internet: Cyveillance white paper report, 7. 10. 2000
“Have you tried searching under ‘fruitle
The Need “More than half of the nation’s school districts report that kids are the campus experts when it comes to school technology” USA Today- June 5, 2002: At U. S Schools, Students are Technology Teachers- by Karen Thomas Citing report: “Are We There Yet”-2 nd major report from National School Boards Foundation
The Need 811 school districts surveyed, including 90 of largest 100 found: • Only 43% of new teachers are “average” in their ability to use the Internet for classroom instruction • Most Internet use is for researchbased projects, with very little use of interactive learning and collaboration
The Need The UCLA Center for Communication Policy just released study • Schools should incorporate the suggesting: NET into their instructional practices • Stressed importance of teaching students how to critically evaluate online information
The Solution. A program to train teachers how to find, evaluate and assemble appropriate Internet education resources aligned to NSES
Web Guide Components
Web Guide Structure Guides are for teachers and take drill down approach Web Guide Topic Area Several Themes for each web guide topic area List of Keywords for each theme Clicking Keyword provides list of URL Resources aligned to keyword
Web Guide Structure Each Keyword coded with six URLs: 2 Core Content 2 Inquiry Activity 2 Aligned. Assessments URLs Cutting across all three areas pages may contain or address: Misconceptions, Multimedia, Interactivity
Where are the Web guides ? http: //webwatchers. nsta. org
Webwatcher Training Programs • Six programs scheduled for spring 2003 • Blends face-to-face and online training • Facilitated by experienced Web. Watchers • Access to Web Guides developed by other teams in the field
What if? You could not only access the existing web guides, but create you own based on topics of interest to your district or county? No HTML programming needed!
- Onsite marketing definition
- Onsite emergency plan
- Onsite design
- Onsite hydrogen generation
- Onsite billing
- Onsite supervision
- Expiritest
- Monument energy
- Career opportunities in biotechnology and drug development
- Perform quality assurance
- Concept of quality assurance
- Where is the sahara located
- Sources of information on professional development trends
- Domain 7 personal growth and professional development ppst
- Domain 6 community linkages and professional engagement
- Manage personal and professional development
- Personal and professional development level 6
- Pmp quality vs grade