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TEA Collaborative Learning Group
Annual Report
Petula
2002
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How did your work with your team help you meet the professional growth goals you
set for yourself?
The professional goals my team set forth was to attend the NSTA convention and work collaboratively on rewriting our curriculum in order to align it to our state standards. We are also working on more efficent ways of integrating polar research (the TEA website specifically) into our courses. Interacting with my team members has been very beneficial because our ideas feed off of each other. I do not feel that I would be able to tackle such big issues alone.
How did your work with your team impact your content knowledge and pedagogy?
Working with the team allowed me a rare opportunity to learn about other science disciplines and how they teach their subject. It was interesting to learn about common practices and they content they teach. This insight allows us, as a department, to better align our curriculum and have common requirements with projects...such a laboratory reports. Furthermore, when we attended the convention, we learned from each other by discussing what what presented at various workshops.
What materials / resources / workshops did you
use / produce / host with your team members over the last year?
We attended the NSTA National Convention in Philadelphia. Some of the workshops we attended were:
A Morning of Chemistry: What We Teach…When We Teach What We Teach
All the Classroom’s a Stage: Using Heroes to Teach Science Content
National Water Day Monitoring
Too Fun to be Chemistry
The Amazing Immune System: How It Works – Both for Us and Against Us
Using Ancient Physics to Teach Modern Physics
Using Star Trek
Comprehensive Conceptual Curriculum for Physics
Science Kit Presents: Bruce Yeany – My Favorite Demos, Labs, and Toys
Ninety Motivating Zingers Guaranteed to Knock Your Socks Off
Creating Your Own CD and Web Site
Just Physics – An Invitation to Physics Teachers
DNA Interactive Education Program
Hassle-free Environmental Microbiology
Peeling Back the Layers – Applying G.I.S. With or Without Expensive Software
Bioiformatics: Finding Genes in DNA
4th Annual Pennsylvania Leadership Dinner and Roundtable
Astrobiology for the Undergraduates – a Novel Approach
EarthScope! A New View of the North American Continent
Research Experience for Teachers
The New, Improved PAEMST
Icecube: Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole
Exploring Depositional Environments and Stratigraphic Correlation
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Chemistry Education Program:
The Hole Story – How Did Those Holes Get in Things on the Beach?
Science in Hollywood
Using Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoons
Autopsy of a Pickle
Mystery, Mayhem, & Learning
Introductory Dissection with Carolina Perfect Solution Frogs
Exploring Biodiversity Through Field Based Learning
Based on the past year,
what ideas do you have to improve the effectiveness of
your team interactions?
Finding common time to meet and discuss ideas was the big idea of the year. This thought is why we worked so hard to get approval to attend the NSTA convention as a group. Also, we requested permission from the Superintendent to use some of the planned in-service days for meeting with each other.
Total hours of collaboration with each team member:
41
Additional reflections:
I am glad to see that the TEA program has language that attempts to get TEA's and their associates to a NSTA convention. Our group found the experience very valuable and we are already working on an action plan that will allow our district to send us again next year. I think requiring group work is fantastic...as long as there is means for the group to meet (such as district approval and funding)
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