Free Teacher Professional Development Opportunity
The Tech Museum has a free professional development program for science and technology educators. The program, aligned to state education standards and curriculum, is designed to provide teachers with up-to-date lessons, training and ongoing support on subjects ranging from environmental science to emerging technology.
Together with The Tech Museum, ISKME is pleased to present interactive workshops for teachers centered around emerging trends in curriculum development and sharing. The workshops will engage participants in enhancing their digital learning and social networking skills through using online resources and collaborative tools for teachers to share with their peers and students.
The sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER) and related practices involving digital and social learning is the cornerstone of ISKME's facilitation of teacher professional development and peer-based learning. Our approach leverages existing practices of teachers and builds on ISKME's OER Commons (www.oercommons.org) network for open teaching and learning resources.
The dynamic, accessible nature of OER inspires innovation in the classroom and may help address some of the challenges related to the equitable access to high-quality learning. Collaboration and sharing among teachers, experts, professionals and community leaders is integral for the future of education.
About ISKME:The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (www.iskme.org) is an independent, nonprofit research institute that conducts social science research in education, develops research-based innovations, and facilitates field building to improve knowledge sharing. ISKME's training and professional development supports teachers and schools in effective uses of digital content and collaboration as part of a larger model for systemic change in education through knowledge sharing.
Participants will gain:- Hands-on multi-disciplinary approaches to learning using experiential techniques
- Open access to lessons and other materials that support learning
- Experience with finding and sharing resources with others and using online networking and digital media tools and methods
- Practice in resource search and identification, and an introduction to licensing that makes content legal to adapt and share online
- Continued online support and networking through the OER Commons site and education programs
- Opportunities to connect and collaborate with teachers internationally
Register for an OER Commons account at www.oercommons.org . Once registered will receive a confirmation email. Click on the link in the confirmation email to log in.
For more information and to RSVP please call 408-795-6240 or email jsmith@thetech.org