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Below is a current list of online workshops that are available in both the live, interactive format and the pre-recorded, on-demand format that can be watched at your convenience. Use the links to search for workshops that target a particular skill set. Note that workshops grouped in a series are also functional as stand-alone sessions.

 

Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data Part 1

Students aren’t the only ones who struggle to determine the best way to display data in graphic form. Because there are usually many representations that can be used, and each...
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Students aren’t the only ones who struggle to determine the best way to display data in graphic form. Because there are usually many representations that can be used, and each may encourage the reader to make slightly different conclusions, deciding on the most appropriate graph can be tricky. In this 1.5 hr. workshop, participants will learn a repeatable technique using a gallery walk of student graphs, a comparison, and analysis of the many different possible visual representations, and a peer critique all aimed to help students modify and improve the final draft of their graphs.

Although the examples in this workshop will be based in math and science, this 1.5-hour workshop is open to teachers of all grade levels and subject areas.

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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 1 Measuring and Reporting Uncertainty

All measurements include some degree of uncertainty or error, but how it is reported is decided by the person collecting the data. Because analysis is dependent on the data collected,...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online

Many of us have the basics to teaching online down, but there are still delays, hiccups, and a suite of things that may go wrong each time we start a...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Experiments: Part 1 Building Curiosity

In this workshop we will practice a repeatable structure for introducing a topic that will be studied through scientific exploration using a remote teaching and learning platform. We will help...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Experiments: Part 2 Helping Students Write an Experimental Procedure

In this workshop we will pick up where Part 1 of this series left off. We begin with a list of variables our students have identified as potentially impacting a...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Experiments: Part 3 Guiding Students Through Data Analysis

Teachers will play the role of the students, collecting data in their own homes and pooling their observations and measurements in a spreadsheet shared by their lab partners. We will...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Experiments: Part 4 Drawing Evidence-based Conclusions

This workshop will focus on the content and demands of the conclusion section of a lab report, with applications to data-based questions and internal assessments for IB students, and free...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Experiments: Part 5 Data-generating Activities for Labs and Computation

Whether in the classroom or at home, how do we initiate the process of student-designed lab or field experiments? The first step is to help the students see potential research...
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Workshop Series: Remote Teaching and Learning

Part 1 Setting Up Your Asynchronous Classes

The purpose of this 1.5-hour workshop is to organize your teaching load into discrete groups that you can access so contact is continuous. I will guide you through the process...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Building Community Among Students in a Remote Class

In order to promote intellectual curiosity and advance the collective, individual participants must trust one another so they can take risks, offer ideas, disagree respectfully, and collaborate freely. Starting the...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Math-infused Science | Remote Teaching and Learning

DataClassroom Sponsored Workshops

In each free 1-hour workshop, Kristen Dotti from Catalyst Learning Curricula will show teachers easy ways to integrate graphing and data analysis skills into their lesson plans with the user-friendly...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data Part 2

In this 1.5 hr. workshop participants will use an example data set from a Data Nuggets experiment to explore different methods of depicting the same set of numbers in several...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 2 The Problem with Describing Data Using the Mean

Often by middle school and certainly by high school, students default to the mean as the best way to describe data without much consideration for how they might defend that...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Using Competitions to Engage Online or In-person Learners

Competitions are assignments that guide students through a preliminary exploration, data collection, analysis, reflection, and revision in a repeating cycle. This process leans on the scientific method and helps students...
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Workshop Series: Remote Teaching and Learning

Part 2 Holding Synchronous Video Classes

In this 1.5-hour workshop, we will compare several online video meeting platforms that you may find useful for holding synchronous classes. We will go over the pros and cons of...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Standards and Assessments

Encouraging Risk-taking to Advance Critical Thinking

Risk-taking is a characteristic of the IB learner profile because it sets students apart from their peers as leaders. Risk-taking with deliberation and defined outcome is a characteristic of good...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Writing and Speaking About Data (DBQs and FRQs)

How do we talk about data? How do we write about data? In this 1.5 hr. workshop you will discover ways to help your student be specific, using the correct...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 3 Getting Comfortable with Variance, Standard Deviation, Standard Error, and the 95% Confidence Interval

The variance, standard deviation, and standard error of the mean are excellent methods for describing data because they convey the variability of the observed data around mean. Anyone teaching Pre-AP,...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Using Stop-animation Videos to Learn Concepts

Combat attrition with engaging assignments that can be sculpted to the student’s abilities and interest. Stop-animation videos are a short movies made with a series of photos taken from the...
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Workshop Series: Remote Teaching and Learning

Part 3 Optimizing Critical Thinking in an Asynchronous Online Class

Online learning does not have to be devoid of depth, there are plenty of ways to hone your teaching skills and challenge your students within the confines of teaching remotely....
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Standards and Assessments

Creating a Continuous Cycle of Inquiry in Your Course

Although there are many authors who cite their model or use their preferred terms, the cycle of inquiry essentially boils down to actions the student takes to apply concepts and...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Data Modeling Activities for Ecology – Lincoln’s and Simpson’s Indices

Using manipulatives found in our homes, we will simulate two common field science experiments:  Lincoln’s Index for measuring abundance and Simpson’s Index for measuring biodiversity. Participants in this 1.5 hr....
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 4 Expressing Error on a Graph

Error bars are placed on a graph to give a more detailed account of what was observed.  Although there are many descriptors that can be used to draw error bars,...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Using Team Challenges to Foster Collaboration

Whether for STEM, foreign language, arts, or humanities, applying information is one of the most effective ways for a student to increase their level of understanding and for a teacher...
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Workshop Series: Remote Teaching and Learning

Part 4 Optimizing Critical Thinking in a Synchronous Video Class

This 1.5-hour workshop will address teaching techniques that can be used while conducting a class via live video streaming where all students would meet at the same time (aka synchronous...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Making Thinking Visible

One of the gifts of teaching in a distance learning environment is the documentation that occurs as students complete and submit work. Each step of the thinking process is recorded...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 5 Hypothesis Testing Using a Chi-squared Analysis

Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Using Debates to Teach Evidence-based Reasoning

An exciting way to engage your students in their online class is to use a topic that sparks discussion, research, and the desire to sleuth out additional information. In this...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Standards and Assessments

Offering Choice Menus for Differentiated Assessment

Participants will be given an example of a choice menu to see how this assessment tool can be used within an online or in-person class. Assessment menus allow greater autonomy...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Standards and Assessments

How to Build Inclusion, Differentiation, and Autonomy into Your Curriculum

Twenty-first century teaching is challenged by the fact that we are preparing students for a world that does not yet exist. When the techniques used in the classroom or the...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 6 Hypothesis Testing Using the Student’s t-test

Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Standards and Assessments

Incorporating Critical Thinking and Differentiation into Project-based Learning Outcomes

Participants in this 1.5 hr. workshop, will compare project-based learning outcomes and use their analysis to backward map the lesson such that it hits the skills and thinking objectives desired....
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Writing Easy-to-Use Rubrics

In this 1.5 hr. workshop, participants will practice writing rubrics with the intent of assessing the attainment of specific content and skills standards. We will explore how rubrics can be...
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Helping Students Give Kind and Useful Critical Feedback

One of the tools of student-centered teaching is the peer review process. In this technique, students gather in small groups and present their work to one another. The audience of...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 7 Hypothesis Testing Using Tests of Correlation

Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Remote Teaching and Learning

Helping Students Identify Logical Fallacies

Fallacies are errors in reasoning that undermine the logic of an argument. However, fallacies do not necessarily weaken the impact of the argument—on the contrary, fallacies are employed as persuasive...
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Process Portfolios to Document Thinking and Learning

This 1.5 hr. workshop is dedicated to making thinking “visible” by documenting what influences a student’s thought process and by keeping track of the changes that occur when additional information...
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Curriculum Development: Planning Phenomenon-driven Units for NGSS Science Classes

The goal of this 1.5 hr. workshop is to help teachers develop a unit that uses inquiry to drive the exploration of a process or phenomenon. Participants will learn a...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Stats for Your Data

This is the culminating workshop for the Statistics for Advanced Level Science series. In this session, we will compare the application of different hypothesis tests and discuss how more than one type...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Math-infused Science | Remote Teaching and Learning

Using Puzzles to Teach Pattern Recognition

In this 1.5 hr. workshop, teachers will work individually and then as a team to identify a pattern in puzzle pieces that are tell the story of a theorem, function,...
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Helping Students Discern Fact from Fiction

Information is available from an unlimited number of sources and accessible to anyone. And, anyone who desires can make information available to the masses regardless of its factual or fictitious...
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Interpreting and Creating Systems Models

Systems models are diagrams or infographics that contain multiple lines of evidence and data within a single visual presentation. Increasingly used across all subject areas, these graphics can be challenging...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Standards and Assessments

Vertical Team Planning for a Reduced Syllabus in Science

This workshop is aimed at bringing K-12 teachers together to identify the essential skills that need to be targeted in a curriculum that is reduced by remote teaching. Based on...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data Part 3

“So, should I use a bar graph?” Students are often unsure of how to depict data in a manner that elucidates the trends and exposes any disruptions that need to...
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Developing and Using Models Part 1

In this workshop, we will explore 2-dimensional modeling for use in Next Generation science and math courses. Whether it is a schematic diagram, a systems map, a simulation, a graph...
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Developing and Using Models Part 2

In this 1.5-hour workshop, we will explore 3-dimensional modeling for use in Next Generation science and math courses. Helping prepare students for a career in science or mathematics requires a...
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Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data Part 4

The final workshop in this series guides teachers through the technical steps of helping students create a graph that looks the way the student intends it to look. We will...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning

Using Games to Teach Complex Concepts

Excitement is easy to stir up when you frame something as a game and add a bit of competition to the process of thinking and learning. In this session, teachers...
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