Preparing California Elementary and Middle School Teachers in Science

This archive focuses on the Foundational Level General Science program that CSU, East Bay (CSUEB) which prepares current teachers or those affected by lay-offs with the content knowledge required to teach science in grades K-8 .


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Presenters

Joan Bissell (Primary)

Director, Teacher Education & Public School Programs
California State University

Holly Jacobson (Primary)

Director
Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, WestEd

Michael Leung

Dean, College of Science
California State University, East Bay

Jeffery Seitz

Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
California State University, East Bay

Danika LeDuc

Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Department at
California State University, East Bay

Julie Kidd

Program Officer
S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation

Description

This webinar focuses on a new Foundational Level General Science program that California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) has led. It prepares current teachers or those affected by lay-offs with the content knowledge required to teach science in grades K-8 and with the skills needed to advance inquiry-based science pedagogy in these grades and is highly suited for teachers at both the elementary and middle grades. Presenters include Joan Bissell, Director, Teacher Education and Public School Programs, California State University and the following CSUEB researchers: Michael Leung, Dean of Science; Danika LeDuc, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry; and Jeffery Seitz, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences. Holly Jacobson, Director of the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd, will be the reflector.

The intended audience is schools, districts, states, policymakers, and institutes of higher education.

This webinar is the second in the series, "Advancing STEM Education K-8 in California," in partnership with the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning (CFTL) at WestEd and California State University. This webinar series builds off two recent reports, "Untapped Potential: The Status of Middle School Science Education in California" and "High Hopes—Few Opportunities, The Status of Elementary Science in Education," produced by CFTL with generous funding from S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation. The series focuses on high quality in school and out-of-school time approaches that are being used to expand science teaching and learning in California and is applicable to educators from across the nation involved in efforts to improve science education.

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