Strategies to Make Your Science Classroom Thrive
Deepen your knowledge on how to engage your students in science instruction and then watch them thrive. This free webinar series will include topics on what a student-driven PhD Science® classroom looks like, about the PhD Science flexible assessment approach, how you can assist students in persevering through productive struggle, and how science knowledge builds within and across grade levels.
How Can You Support A Student-Driven Classroom?
Speaker: Robert "Rob" Ingram
September 15 | 5:30 p.m. ET
We realize that teachers are the experts in the classroom. PhD Science is here to support you and your students with flexible instructional design.
Join us as we discuss tips for making the shift to a student-driven classroom. We’ll share some ideas you can bring back to your schools, including instructional routines and collaborative conversation prompts. We’ll also consider ways to manage different aspects of the classroom, including materials kits that support hands-on instructional experiences.
Three-Dimensional Assessment: How Do You Know How Your Students Are Developing?
Speaker: Genie Albina
October 20 | 5:30 p.m. ET
Assessing student progress is an essential aspect of effective teaching. By measuring student development, educators can adapt their instruction to fit student needs. A balance of formative and summative assessments plays a critical role in this evaluation. Because we know that students have different backgrounds and experiences, PhD Science includes at least one formative assessment per lesson. Teachers are constantly able to measure where their learners are in the development of key science concepts.
Join us as we talk about our formative assessments, summative assessments, and flexible (formative or summative) assessments. We'll discuss the three-dimensionality of our approach and how phenomena can be used to assess students in authentic ways.
Productive Struggle: How Can You Help Students with Perseverance?
Speaker: Robby Hunter
November 17 | 5:30 p.m. ET
When your students struggle, your instinct may be to jump in and help them. You care about your students, and you don’t want to see them fail. But struggle—productive struggle— is often when those aha moments occur.
Join us as we explore how students gather evidence to make sense of scientific phenomena. We will discover how this process creates opportunities for engagement in the delicate balance of productive struggle as students build their science knowledge.
How Does Science Knowledge Build Within and Across Grade Levels?
Speaker: Madeline Cronk
December 15 | 5:30 p.m. ET
At Great Minds®, we believe that every child is capable of greatness, and we want to help teachers provide their students with a science education as limitless as science itself. To achieve this goal, students rigorously engage in learning that builds their coherent understanding of scientific knowledge.
Join us as we explore what knowledge building looks like in PhD Science, including the tools to facilitate learning with a knowledge-building curriculum. As students integrate and apply new knowledge, they apply the concepts to make sense of new phenomena. Coherence extends across modules, levels, and even content areas as students deepen their understanding of scientific topics.
