Changing What We Do Constructing a Team-Based, Problem-Centered Professional Development Experience by Karen Hollweg and Carole Kubota with Phyllis Ferrell

 Changing What We Do....
NAAEE’s new book can change how you teach EE and work with others!

Are you thinking about--

• how to integrate real-world learning experiences into the ongoing classroom curriculum?
• how to collaborate more effectively with teachers, administrators, and nonformal educators?
• how to address the National Science Education Standards in ways that engage all your students?
• how to plan or participate in meaningful professional development?

You’ll find some provocative answers in this book. It describes a just-completed NSF-funded project called the VINE Follow-Through Project. Teams of formal and nonformal educators in school districts in Seattle, Louisville, and Broward County, FL, integrated out-of-the-classroom learning experiences into the ongoing science curriculum. The project resulted, as the participants said and external evaluator agreed, in “changing what we do” in the classroom and with colleagues. Learn how they did it!

Although used in connection with NAAEE’s ongoing Volunteer-led Investigations in Neighborhood Ecology (VINE) Program, the approach and materials used in this project can be adapted to tackle many other educational challenges.

“Change takes time and support. This is a great example of an effective way to bring about change.” Harold Pratt, Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education, National Research Council. Other reviewers agreed.

Skim a few excerpts from the book. Order your copy today!

• Excerpt that describes the project’s theoretical underpinnings, including how it aligns with the National Science Education Standards
• Excerpt that summarizes the conclusions from the external evaluation
• Excerpt from a series of vignettes that describe how the project changed how teachers taught and how children learned
• Excerpt from the appendices—one of the teambuilding tools used in this project and applicable to others

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This material is based upon work supported, in part by the National Science Foundation. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Foundation.