Summer Teacher Workshops
MUSCLE Workshop - June 2008
- Do you want to know just how to engage the most difficult students into your science classes?
- Do you know how to teach science safety rules in ways that help students really learn them?
- Just how can you grade group projects so each student’s effort is fairly reflected?
- What do you do when your classroom is not a laboratory designed for science?
If these are questions that puzzle or perplex you from time to time as a science teacher, then check out the Managing yoUr Science Classroom Lab Efficiently (MUSCLE) Workshop offered by the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach in June 2008. MUSCLE is designed by science teachers; for science teachers. It provides instruction and modeling of management techniques specifically designed to improve science teaching at the secondary level. MUSCLE classroom and laboratory management strategies enable teachers to gain instructional time and to create improved learning conditions for all students so they will achieve at higher levels in science.
Workshop Sessions:
- June 16-20, 2008
- June 23-27, 2008
Only teachers from Tennessee are eligible for any stipends and/or travel reimbursement.
Research Tools for Secondary Science Educators
Research Tools for Secondary Science Educators workshop invites secondary science teachers into Vanderbilt science laboratories for four, one-week sessions. These interconnected workshops, funded by Tennessee's Improving Teacher Quality program, will focus on science and technology content and tools for the classroom. Each of the first three weeks will focus on a different scientific discipline, with the fourth week covering technology tools. Each of the first three workshops are open to 25 teachers, while the technology workshop will be open to only 15 teachers.
Workshop Sessions:
- June 23-27, 2008: Physics
- July 07-11, 2008: Chemistry
- July 14-18, 2008: Biology
- July 21-25, 2008: Technology
Only teachers from Tennessee are eligible for any stipends and/or travel reimbursement.
