1. MS Learner-Centered Science Session
Lighting the way for student-centered learning
Music- Fallout Boy- “Light Em Up”
Tiffany Wendland – Coordinator
Amy Hughes - Resource Teacher
@BCPSSci
BCPS Office of Science

2. Are You More Like Accelerator or the brakes? A cruise or a hike?
A slide or a swing?
2 mins – Icebreaker – share with your elbow partner, explain your choice and introduce yourself

3. https://padlet.com/twendland/MSstatScience
Welcome T-P-S
What does it mean to be a science teacher in a learner-centered school?
Share your thoughts on the following padlet:
5 mins
How will being a lighthouse school change how you teach?

4. Outcomes
I can identify strategies to promote learner-centered science classrooms.
I can analyze a model science lesson using the Learner-Centered Environments: Professional Learning Tool.
I can access resources to assist in designing learner- centered lessons.
10 mins

5. Model Lesson ANALYSIS How Small are Atoms?
12 mins Atoms from current curriculum vs revised lesson - one chunk of a lesson that shows where we are going

6. Model Lesson
At your tables, review the Model lesson plan, How Small are Atoms?
Underline different teaching strategies.
Box different learning styles addressed.
*Star* where checks for learning occur (or could occur)
10 mins
Checks for learning = formative assessment

7. Digging Deeper Lesson – Identify the learner-centered features
Follow-up Discussion:
What is a probe? How was the probe used in the lesson?
What was the significance of the “World’s Smallest Video” in the lesson?
How does this lesson incorporate shifts towards NGSS?
How is the explanation organized to allow for student choice and
differentiation?
Identify any checks for learning in the lesson. How were they placed to maximize student-teacher feedback?
How was technology incorporated into the lesson? What other ways could you incorporate technology into the lesson?
30 mins - Here is where the curriculum is going
Where is the choice? Where could you incorporate more choice?
Work with a partner to answer one of these discussion questions.
Review each
How are these represented in the LCE PLT?

8. Learner-Centered Environments Professional Learning Tool
37 mins - How familiar are you with this tool? Take 2 mins to review What strategies did you come up with that are in this tool?
Here is the answer to LCE
Need copies

9. HOW DO WE GET THERE?
Transition
RESOURCES

10. eLearningResources
Allow time to access and review. Consider how these resources could be helpful in designing LC lessons. Example?

11. Discovery Education Streaming and My DE
Allow time to access. Ask who is currently using DE resources? How could these be helpful in designing LC lessons? Example?

12. Discovery ED
Allow time to access. Ask who is currently using Board Builder? How does this BB provide options for student choice?

13. Digital Content
Allow time to access. How could these be helpful in designing LC lessons? Examples?

14. Additional Resources! Other sources – Allow time to access the wiki.
Learning Centers:
Designing and Delivering Learning Center Instruction:
One page list of instructional strategies:
A List of 50+ Teaching Strategies to Jumpstart Your Teacher Brain:

15. Reflection
Instructional Practices Red - What do we need to STOP? Yellow - What should we CONTINUE doing? Green - What do we need to START doing?
Use colored PostIt Notes to have participants write one practice for each category. Compile responses on group stoplight chart. Debrief patterns.

16. @BCPSSci BCPS Office of Science