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Science and Math Offerings

    PTL Science and Math Offerings focus powerful teaching and learning strategies on the specific needs of science and math classrooms. Training options include:

    Mathematics

    • Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom (7-12)

    Science

    • Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Science Classroom (7-12)

    Overview

    PTL's math and science trainings deliver powerful teaching and learning strategies focused on the specific needs of math and science classrooms. As schools nationwide struggle to address the achievement gap in math and science disciplines, the need for targeted and specific professional development opportunities in this area has grown ever more urgent.

    Science and math teachers demand specific programs to address their specific needs. We’ve developed these institutes to give these teachers the specialized focus that they deserve.

    Science Training: What You'll Learn

    • Grouping kids fast, easy and without complaints
    • How to create groups that are respectful and on-task
    • Activities for reducing group conflict from day one
    • How to ask one question and have the entire class answer
    • Crafting the one essential question to capsulize the day’s, week’s, quarter’s, or semester’s learning so you have specific and immediate knowledge of what they have learned
    • How to increase student accountability for their own learning
    • How to increase scientific reading comprehension and understanding in a shorter period of time
    • How to increase scientific writing skills for a lifetime

    Math Training: What You'll Learn

    • Collect grouping strategies that engage, amuse and provide learning opportunities for students.
    • Engage in classroom-ready problems from all of the content strands in the EALRs.
    • Practice strategies that focus the classroom on student engagement with the content and deep learning that students can retain and transfer.
    • Gather and use successful formative assessment practices that impact diagnosis and differentiation of learning for all students.
    • Learn how to empower students as they assess their own learning.
    • Plan a powerful lesson using research based classroom protocol.
    • Learn about the biology of the adolescent brain and the implications for that information to teaching and learning in the secondary classroom.
    • Investigate the appropriate use of technology in mathematics investigations.
    • Leave with activities, strategies, a lesson, and research that can be used immediately in the classroom.
    • Upcoming Dates

      Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Science Classroom (7-12)

      2008

      Spokane, WA
      October 23-24
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      Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Math Classroom

      2008

      Spokane, WA
      October 16-17
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      2009

      Northwest Educational Service District
      April 29-30, 2009
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      Spokane, WA
      May 4-5
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