Hilton Garden Inn
Accommodations
Summer Workshops will be held at 309 College St. at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Asheville. Restaurants and shops are accessible by foot and Lyft/Uber can provide transportation to the Biltmore House, the Folk Art Center or other locations for sight-seeing beyond downtown.
Rooms can be booked for $139/per night Su-Th using the link below (these rates are not available through the phone or hotel website).
Alternate places to stay, still within walking distance of the workshop and restaurants are the two hostels located downtown, Sweet Peas Hostel at 23 Rankin Ave. (828-285-8488) and Asheville Hostel and Guest House at 12 Ravenscroft Dr. (828-423-0256). The hostels have single rooms and group rooms with private or shared bathrooms for a traveler who is looking for more affordable pricing. Please realize the hostels can sometimes be a bit noisier, so earplugs are recommended—that being stated, many teachers have stayed at both hostels in the past and have been very happy with their choice. AirBnB.com and CouchSurfing.com are two other ways to choose your price and enjoy a bit of the local culture.
June 2020
NGSS Activities for Teaching Cell Biology
This workshop is ideal for general level, AP, or IB Biology teachers who would like to use more student-centered teaching in their course. We will cover all topics required to teach the entire unit of cell biology with methods that allow you to drop the lecture, worksheets, and PowerPoints in exchange for active teaching. Drawing on Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and practices you will experience the arc of learning by playing the role of the student as we move…
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Student-designed Labs and Statistics for AP/IB Sciences
In this workshop, you will learn a repeatable structure to inspire creative, well-constructed student-designed experiments. You will learn to implement the peer review process and respond to the challenges students face when working on data collection and analysis. Time will be spent on generating novel investigations, simulations, games, and investigations to bolster lab design skills and improve student understanding of the scientific method. We will use example data sets to test different approaches to dealing with data and formulating defensible…
Find out more »Increasing Student Engagement and Critical Thinking
Who does the thinking in your classroom? If you suspect you are working harder than your students, then this workshop is for you. All students are able to think critically, but you must make the material relevant to get a high level of engagement. Find ways to draw your students in, away from their cell phones and toward the content and skills objectives you have for your course. Using example activities from all different subject areas, we will tap into…
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