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Gain Practical Teaching Strategies That Enrich Your Students’ Learning

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Professional Learning Units

Bite-sized • Self-paced Asynchronous Learning

2-3 Hours of CE Credits Could Be Earned

  

  

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Supporting Student Development of Science and STEM Identity

What is a STEM identity, and why is it important for all students? Gain insight and strategies to help your students develop a STEM identity....

Informal Science Education Pre-K Elementary Middle School High School Postsecondary Careers Equity Interdisciplinary New Science Teachers STEM Teacher Preparation

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Transdisciplinary Learning: Working Across Disciplines to Address Complex Real-World Problems

Participants will explore the transdisciplinary approach to STEM education and consider how this shift fosters workforce readiness skills....

Engineering STEM Teaching Strategies Technology

Professional Learning Unit

Creating Class Consensus Models to Support Student Sensemaking

Gain experience and strategies in using the wealth of your students’ ideas to collaboratively build consensus models for complex phenomena....

Life Science Phenomena Professional Learning Science and Engineering Practices Sensemaking Teaching Strategies

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Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit

This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the Science and Engineering Practice An...

High School Biology Evolution Inquiry Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Is Lesson Plan Life Science NGSS Phenomena Preservice Science Education Professional Learning Science and Engineering Practices Sensemaking Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

  

“I recently completed a sensemaking PLU alongside the NSTA Scaling Up for STEM fellows program. Being able to analyze a grade-level appropriate sensemaking lesson helped me better understand the strategies.”

- Leila G, STEAM Mobile Lab Instructional Resource Teacher

"The NSTA professional learning content is engaging, relevant, and easy to apply right away. I especially appreciated the flexibility to learn at my own pace while still feeling connected to a larger professional community."

- Jasmine Lee, Middle School Science Teacher, Oakwood Public Schools

"NSTA’s Professional Learning Units have been a game changer for our district. The courses are thoughtfully designed, easy to implement, and align beautifully with our science curriculum goals. Our educators feel more confident, supported, and inspired in the classroom. It’s professional development that truly makes an impact."

- Dr. Maria Thompson, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, River Valley School District

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