The SciencePoint

Working with teacher candidates and new teachers during the induction year, one thing I found that these young teachers struggled with was being able to ask effective questions and delivering explanations. Questions they ask are often closed questions, or are not relevant to what the students had explored. Furthermore the explanations were often non-existent. This package was designed as a continuous professional development workshop for teacher candidates and new teachers to help them strength

This is a workshop for teachers who are still green and growing to learn about strategies to help them plan effective lessons to engage, challenge, and motivate students. The workshop can be carried out as one whole-day session or two half-day sessions allowing the teachers to put into practice ideas introduced here. It may also be part of on-going faculty professional development sessions incorporated into departmental meetings. The package consists of a 20-slide PowerPoint presentation with 6

This is a series of PowerPoint slides that can be used to run a Professional Development Session to help school administrators, department chairs, and others who are in a leadership position to improve their coaching skills. The workshop addresses: Application of Coaching Management and Coaching What it means to Manage What it means to Coach Coaching Questions Giving Feedback Receiving Feedback

This is a student-centered workbook that reviews students’ application of concepts in mathematics such as: Percentages Representing data as bar charts or pie charts Working out combinations of two or three items Using area and perimeter Use models to solve problems Fractions The main concept addressed in this workbook is Combinatorics. Students are encouraged to find combinations using some sort of reasoning using mathematical models without being introduced to the algorithm or calculators. This

This lesson explores multiplication by representing and solving problems by introducing students to carry out multiplication through grouping. The problems in this case are associated with a day out on the farm, You will need to set the scene and use the PowerPoint slide presentation to guide students through the problems. Students work out the problems on the accompanying workbook.

This is a free resource you could use when observing lessons to give feedback to teachers. There are two observation forms. One focuses on providing feedback Monitoring Progress and second, focusing on feedback Behavior Management.

You may be a new teacher of science or even an experienced teacher looking to see how you can do it differently. If you are here is a Science Lesson Plan Template for you! The plan takes you through from identifying the concept to planning in activities. Learning is in the plan - so plan your lesson well :)