THE STANYS BIG IDEA TEACHER INSTITUTE SERIES (STANYS-BITIS) PART 2

This session is the second of two connected sessions. We have designed a series of intensive, evidence based summer institutes with four main goals. First, we will develop and implement a comprehensive and replicable PD program in which participants work to restructure their own curriculum around a small set of “Big Ideas” utilizing evidence based pedagogical methods for developing the scope, sequence, and assessment of their curriculum. Second, we will connect currently largely disconnected institutions involved in science education, namely STANYS, Colgate University, Binghamton University, SUNY Oneonta and The Paleontological Research Institution and the science educators at each of these institutions or organizations. Third, we will develop skills in emerging teacher leaders through this structured series of PD institutes and conferences, where teachers would be mentored into leadership positions. Finally, we will develop and disseminate (largely through the newly created networks implied above) strategies for helping teachers to make typically incoherent PD more coherent and effective.