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BSCS Science Institutes
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Are you looking for a high-quality professional development program that goes beyond traditional summer institutes?
Are you seeking an experience that reinvigorates your passion for science and teaching?
If so, the BSCS Science Institutes (BSCS SI) are for you! The institutes, hosted in beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado, focus on science content and pedagogy for teachers of science. The result: Improved teaching and learning of science in participants' schools.
Each BSCS Science Institute provides a year's worth of professional development, consisting of
- a week of intensive, inquiry-based experiences designed to deepen your science content, and
- a year-long, online program with an asynchronous structure that provides continuing education and support during the school year without requiring out-of-classroom time.
 These combined experiences provide rich learning environments that create a professional learning community among you and your fellow BSCS SI participants to further your professional development and support for inquiry-based science.
BSCS Science Institutes 2008-2009
Scientific Inquiry in the Secondary Classroom
5-day onsite experience in Colorado Springs (July 14 - 18, 2008)
1 year online, asynchronous, professional development course and
moderated professional learning community
Scientific Inquiry in the Elementary Classroom (NEW!)
5-day onsite experience in Colorado Springs (July 14 - 18, 2008)
1 year online, asynchronous, professional development course and
moderated professional learning community
Evolution: Earth & Life
6-day onsite experience in Colorado Springs (July 20 - 25, 2008)
1 year moderated online professional learning community
Frequently Asked Questions
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Each Institute is based on research and practices that
- provide effective professional development
- enhance the teaching and learning of science subject matter through inquiry-based learning
- deepen teachers' content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)
- model teaching strategies that promote conceptual understanding and meaningful learning
- provide strategies for examining student work and reflecting on teaching practices
- enhance teachers' science content knowledge that can influence student achievement
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Fees
The registration fee for each Institute is $2,450 per participant, which includes the year-long online experience and summer program in Colorado Springs described above. Fees must be received by June 1, 2008.
EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNTS - Register by May 11, 2008, and pay a discounted fee of only $1,950 per participant.
TEAM DISCOUNTS - Register as a team of three or more on or before May 11, 2008, and pay only $1,800 per participant. |
The registration fee includes
- access to the online PD portal from June 1 to May 30
- week-long summer experience in Colorado Springs
- welcome reception
- 2 dinners, lunch each day
- highly-qualified instructors
- supplies and resources as outlined in each institute description that follows
The registration fee does not include
- transportation to/from Colorado Springs
- housing (breakfast is provided for hotel guests)
- dinner (other than the two evenings listed above)
- ground transportation to/from the airport
Reasonably-priced housing has been arranged at a local hotel as well as transportation between the hotel and workshop location. Graduate credits are available for an additional fee.
To share information about the BSCS Science Institutes with your administrator, click here for downloadable letter. |
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Research base for the BSCS Science Institutes
- Loucks-Horsley, S., P. W. Hewson, et al. (2003). Designing professional development for teachers of science and mathematics. Thousand Oaks, CA, Corwin Press.
- Darling-Hammond, L., McLaughlin, Milbrey. W. (1995). "Policies That Support Professional Development in an Era of Reform." Phi Delta Kappan 76(8): p597-604.
- Borko, H. (2004). "Professional Development and Teacher Learning: Mapping the Terrain." Educational Researcher 33(8): p3-15.
- Dede, C. (2006). Online Professional Development for Teachers: Emerging Models and Methods. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Education Press.
- NRC (1996). National science education standards. Washington, DC, National Academy Press.
- Bransford, J. D., A. L. Brown, et al. (1999). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, DC, National Academy Press.
- Bybee, R. W. (2006, February). Maintaining the integrity of science: Responsibilities of science education and BSCS. Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium: Science Under Attack, St. Louis, MO, AAAS.
- Shulman, L. S. (1987). "Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform." Harvard Educational Review 57(1): p1-22.
- Veal, W. R. M., & James G. (1999). "Pedagogical Content Knowledge Taxonomies." Electronic Journal of Science Education 3(4).
- BSCS (2006). BSCS biology: A human approach. Dubuque, IA, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
- McNeill, K. L. L., David J.; et. al. (2006). "Supporting Students' Construction of Scientific Explanations by Fading Scaffolds in Instructional Materials." Journal of the Learning Sciences 15(2): p153-191.
- Glass <<GETTING REMAINDER OF CITATION>>
- Darling-Hammond, L., B. Berry, et al. (2001). "Does teacher certification matter: Evaluating the evidence." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 23(1): 57-77
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