Share ideas and maximize your professional development as you join your teacher friends on an escape to our 1-day Summer Summit. Choose from a variety of relevant sessions as you rejuvenate your passion for teaching and learning. This is a Summit by You, For You!
Know - Participants will know that teaching for conceptual understanding requires science teachers to elicit prior knowledge, provide multiple experiences with concepts, and allow students to make sense of their learning. Understand - Participants will understand all components of the lesson should help students make sense of science principles while gathering information to answer the phenomena. Do - Participants will engage as a learner in a lesson designed to promote conceptual understanding through a phenomenon driven lesson, highlighting instructional practices that make lesson concepts explicit, and use appropriate questioning to assess and promote student understanding throughout the lesson.