Great Plains Center for Excellence in Teacher Professional Development

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Great Plains Center for Excellence in Teacher
Professional Development

• Center for Science Literacy
• Oklahoma State University
• http//csl.okstate.edu

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Issues

• NCLB Teacher Content and Pedagogy
• STEM Science, Technology, Engineering and
  Mathematics
• TIMSS International Science Exam
• NSES Curriculum and Inquiry

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Center for Science Literacy

• A Robust Model for Professional Development
• National and International Requests for Services
• Rural Suburban Urban

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Professional Development Outreach
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Center for Science Literacy

• CSL made OSU the
• Only major university in US where the science
  curriculum for education majors, K-8, has
  undergone such extensive revision (physics,
  chemistry, biology and earth sciences, each 3
  credit hours, each taught in a lab environment,
  each inquiry-based).
• Only major university (probably the only
  university) in the US with responsibility for
  statewide professional development of K-12
  teachers in math, science, and mentoring.

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Center for Science Literacy

• Director of Professional Development asked to
  speak twice a month nationally and
  internationally this year.
• Has a history of cooperation between teacher
  education and arts and sciences.
• Has a history of cooperation with the common
  schools beginning in 1980.
• Strong support at the state house.
• Strong support from the State Department of
  Education.
• Strong support at a national level through the
  National Science Resources Center LASER
  consortium.

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Center for Science Literacy

• Competitive federal funding for this initiative
  totals 10.5M to date.
• The State of Oklahoma provided 600K for FY
  1997-2004 and has committed 800K for FY 2005.
• The private sector provided 1.2 M between FY
  1999 FY 2005.
• Total funding from all non-OSU sources since the
  Center for Science Literacy was created in 1996
  is 16.5M

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Great Plains Professional Development Plan

• Expand professional development efforts for
  grades K-12 teachers in science and mathematics
  with embedded language arts for the primarily
  rural great plains.
• Expand the research that will evaluate current PD
  practices and continuously pave the way for new,
  more effective interventions.
• Develop research that will evaluate new teaching
  technologies and, where appropriate, employ these
  technologies to enhance learning in the classroom
  and at a distance, for example student
  assessment.
• Develop new, research-based assessments of
  student achievement.

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First Year Budget Request

• 1M to purchase, renovate, and add on to building
  currently being rented as a training facility
• 1.3M for personnel (staff, trainers,
  consultants)
• 50K for maintenance and utilities
• 600K for modules and training materials
• 50K for central office expenses
• Sources Dept. of Education (Labor, HHS,
  Education Appropriations Bill)

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Great Plains Center for Excellence in Teacher
Professional Development

• Develop cadres of teachers, throughout the
  central region of the US who will bring quality
  PD to their districts.
• Research, data driven PD and classroom teaching.
• Cooperation of AS, Education, Master teachers,
  Scientists, NSRC.

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Total Budget Request
   
subject to level of funding
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Professional Development Model Talking Points

• NSRC-LASER Smithsonian
• Spread over time
• Inquiry
• STC-kits
• Integration
• Brain research
• Work products

• Note-booking
• Peer-coaching
• Practice and discuss
• Content-loading
• Questioning
• Assessment
• Inducements