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Summer Workshop Plans
Teacher Enhancement for Student Success (TESS) 2001 Summer Workshop Summary
Descriptive and inferential statistics with a focus on application to mathematics education. Use of technology and activities for student discovery and understanding of data organization. This course is designed for K-8 teachers working on a concentration in Mathematics or for teachers working on a supplemental mathematics credential. This course meets the qualifications for reimbursement through AB 496 and AB 2442.
The use of computer technology to study and explore concepts in Euclidean geometry. Topics include, but are not restricted to, properties of polygons, tilings, and polyhedra. This course is designed for K-8 teachers working on a concentration in Mathematics or for teachers working on a supplemental mathematics credential. This course meets the qualifications for reimbursement through AB 496 and AB 2442.
This course addresses how the use of high-density energy sources and a revolution in the production of synthetic materials has transformed human society. As such it emphasizes the role that chemistry and physics play in shaping our world. Technological innovation has made possible an expanding population, but that population consumes resources at an exponentially growing rate. Society looks toward science and technology to find new energy sources and to solve future problems. This course asks students to understand the science and technology that underlies our society, and has them "do the math" to explore the feasibility of technological fixes for current and future problems.
This course addresses the issues of environmental science using an integrated approach: the atmosphere; the hydrosphere; the lithosphere; and the biosphere. It is intended to be a comprehensive overview including how natural systems work, including both physical and biological systems, the use of natural resources by human society, and pollution and waste. A major emphasis is on critical thinking as environmental issues often cause polarization between opposing groups.
Teachers will become familiar with mathematics pedagogy as described in the California Standards for the Teaching Profession. The California Mathematics Content Standards will be examined in depth. Effective instructional strategies in the context of FUSD's newly adopted mathematics instructional materials will be explored and developed.
Sponsored by the Central Valley Science Project, this session is designed to support K-8 teachers in meeting the California Content Standards in Physical Science. Emphasis will be on the concepts of electricity and magnetism and forces and motion. In this project-based workshop teachers will be building devices such as speakers and motors, and even robots! Science best practices will be modeled and plenty of instructional materials will be shared.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Fresno Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers (FCEPT) This is for secondary mathematics teachers (in-service and pre-service, particularly useful for pre-interns) who wish to complete the subject matter competency for single subject mathematics credential. Discussion on topics tested by the Mathematics Subject Matter Competency Praxis tests 0063 and 0064. Problem solving strategies, proof writing techniques and use of the graphing calculator will also be covered.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Fresno Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers (FCEPT) This course seeks to explore newer methods of conceptualizing topics in science by having students engage in authentic teaching activities that promise to be particularly effective in the classroom. Students of this course will collaborate in developing novel and engaging approaches of targeted concepts, and will present them to the class. They will review the available literature, then develop worksheets, activities, demonstrations, and experiments to provide their future students with a constructivist approach to learning. The emphasis will be on topics in chemistry.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Fresno Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers (FCEPT), This workshop in "modeling" is a methods-course of physics teaching that thoroughly addresses all aspects of middle and high school teaching, including the integration of teaching methods with course content, as it should be done in the classroom. Special emphasis will be placed on fundamental conceptual developments through the use of "white boards" appropriate for both high school physics and middle school science. Participants will also be instructed on computer hardware and software, techniques for laboratory data collection and analysis, and Internet use to help them become experts on the best uses of technology in education. Participants will be given provided resources and develop skills in Socratic Dialog to help their students "construct knowledge". This workshop is open to all science teachers, including last summer's FCEPT graduates. New modeling institute participants will focus on kinematics and dynamics. Last year's participants will review their previous year's deployment of the modeling instruction and be provided a range of new models ranging from dynamics through energy to circular motion and momentum.
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