Teachers and Educators
Virtual Professional Development Series
Fall 2020
Presenter: Dr. Cory Buxton, Program Coordinator, OSU Precollege Programs.
Grade Levels: K-12
Multilingual learning strategies for STEM: Teachers were introduced to research based multilingual learning strategies around STEM, provided input on the multilingual learning strategies they are currently using, and received a lesson with integrated multilingual learning strategies that is ready to use.
Event Contact: precollege@oregonstate.edu
Presenter: Dr. Cory Buxton, Program Coordinator, OSU Precollege Programs.
Grade Levels: K-12
Culturally Responsive Strategies for STEM: It is important to foster culturally sustaining practices to support students’ science interest and identity. In this workshop, teachers were introduced to practices to help students take what they are learning in school and apply it to make new meaning of their out-of-school interests and passions.
Event Contact: precollege@oregonstate.edu
Winter 2021
Presenter: Dr. Cory Buxton, Program Coordinator, OSU Precollege Programs.
Grade Levels: K-12
Knowledge building strategies for STEM: Scientific understanding comes from seeing connections among different ideas and explaining the nature of those connections. In this workshop we considered how to support all students in building integrated knowledge structures that are aligned with the norms of science. When students have opportunities to see relationships between science ideas and to build social relationships though science, they learn to communicate and connect evidence-based explanations of natural phenomena and human designed activities.
Event Contact: precollege@oregonstate.edu
Presenter: Dr. Cory Buxton, Program Coordinator, OSU Precollege Programs.
Grade Levels: K-12
Semantic Waving Instruction: Semantic waving is a strategy that teachers could use to make content more easily accessible to students. In this workshop, teachers were introduced to this language development practice to help teachers when concrete, everyday language starts to run out of explanatory power for the desired science meaning-making.
Event Contact: precollege@oregonstate.edu
March 2nd, 4-5PM - Autonomy Touring in Science Instruction
Presenter: Dr. Cory Buxton, Program Coordinator, OSU Precollege Programs.
Grade Levels: K-12
Autonomy Touring Instruction: Teachers need new skills for fostering meaning making through examples that connect in-school and out-of-school cultural knowledge. In this workshop, teachers were introduced to autonomy touring, a practice that supports cultural sustenance through school-community knowledge integration.
Event Contact: precollege@oregonstate.edu
