Project P.O.S.T. Preparing Outstanding Science Teachers

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Project P.O.S.T. Preparing Outstanding Science
Teachers

• A Partnership of GCS UNCG

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High School Performance Science EOCs
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Middle School Math Performance
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The Vision

• Provide relevant and engaging professional
  development for our middle school science
  teachers
• Purchase resources to assist our team leaders
  with reflection on their personal growth in the
  areas of inquiry and content knowledge
• Establish Professional Learning Communities in
  each school fostering collaboration among the
  science staff
• Ensure our teachers model safe lab procedures
  with our students

P.O.S.T.
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POST Participants

• Teachers from
• the middle schools
• in Guilford County

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Summer Courses

• Cohort 1
• Physical science 2007
• Biology 2007
• Earth/Environmental 2008

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Summer Courses

• Cohort 2
• Physics 2008
• Biology 2008
• Earth/Environmental 2009
• Chemistry 2009

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Quarterly Academies

• All the science staff
  at each POST school
• Training in Inquiry based instruction

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Quarterly Academies

• Content instruction
• Training with science equipment

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Bi-weekly Meetings

• POST Team Leaders
• Develop Professional Learning Communities
• Lesson Study

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Lesson Study Cycle
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What now?

• What not to do

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Expectations of Teachers

• Commitment to actively participate for two
• years in this project as a POST Team Leader
  for your school
• Successfully complete four 2-week summer courses
  at UNCG
• Attendance at Quarterly Academies (8) and
  Biweekly staff meetings, during the 2007/08 and
  2008/09 school years

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Expectations of Teachers cont.

• Provide data through peer observations, surveys,
  and content knowledge evaluations throughout the
  life of the project
• Develop, with support of the Project Coordinator,
  a professional development plan for your school,
  and a personal professional development plan for
  your individual classroom based on data from EOG
  and benchmarks

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Benefits of Participation

• 12 hours towards a graduate degree from UNCG,
  with tuition, textbooks, and stipend
  (750/course) for courses provided
• Free science resources and equipment
• Quarterly academies with free resources for all
  science teachers in your school

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Benefits cont.

• Substitutes to visit other science classrooms
• Learn Inquiry-Based Instruction methods and
  deepen content knowledge specific to the NCSCOS
  for middle school science
• Develop leadership skills, and receive support
  from UNCG, GCS, and your principal throughout the
  project

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Recruitment

• POST Website
• http//professional_development.gcsnc.com/POST.htm
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• Online Teacher Application