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Enhance Your Summer Professional Development with NSTA's Learning Center Resources

Join us on May 4, 2010, for a session focused on maximizing your summer professional development (PD). NSTA's Learning Center provides over 4,700 resources and tools designed to help science educators enhance their teaching practices. Learn how to create your PD plan using the Portfolio Tool, upload evidence of your progress, and generate comprehensive reports. With access to interactive simulations, webinars, and a wealth of materials aligned with science education standards, you'll be well-equipped for your professional growth this summer!

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Enhance Your Summer Professional Development with NSTA's Learning Center Resources

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  1. LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING @ YOUR DESKTOP NSTA Learning Center: Resources and Tools for Your Summer PD Tuesday, May 4, 2010

  2. Resources and Tools for Your Summer PD May 4, 2010 http://learningcenter.nsta.org Flavio MendezSenior Director

  3. Learning Center Overview Your summer PD plan LC Resources Summer Content Refreshers Agenda http://learningcenter.nsta.org

  4. Overview

  5. NSTA’s e-PD portal designed to help science teachers address their content/classroom needs. With over 4,700 resources and opportunitiesandpractical tools to help you organize, personalize, and document your PD growth over time. http://learningcenter.nsta.org

  6. You are not alone… May 2010: Over 60,800activeusers with over 416,000resources across their libraries

  7. http://learningcenter.nsta.org

  8. I have used the followingresourcesfrom the LC

  9. http://learningcenter.nsta.org

  10. I have used the followingtoolsfrom the LC

  11. My PD Plan & Portfolio Tool

  12. http://learningcenter.nsta.org/PortfolioTool/videos/portfolio_overview/index.htmlhttp://learningcenter.nsta.org/PortfolioTool/videos/portfolio_overview/index.html

  13. My PD Plan & Portfolio • Create multiyear plan outlining goals, actions, and evidences • Upload files to demonstrate completion of goals with reflections • Generate automatic PDF report with embedded URL links and images Flavio/Jeff: Share desktop…sample report

  14. Summer PD: Your goal, to enhance your…

  15. Summer PD: Your actions, to do a…

  16. Summer PD: Your evidences, to collect and upload

  17. Name and create your PD Plan & Portfolio Tool Flavio/Jeff: Transfer PDF file “How-To Guide”

  18. Go to Learning Center Home Page http://learningcenter.nsta.org

  19. Name your Portfolio; the default is your name http://learningcenter.nsta.org

  20. PD Plan & Portfolio Tool • Steps 3-14 on the How-To Guide you do as homework after this seminar. • Choose dates, goal category • Create goal statement • Create evidence-action pair(s) • Upload evidences • Generate PDF report

  21. Send your questions to: learningcenterhelp@nsta.org

  22. Send your questions to: learningcenterhelp@nsta.org

  23. Send your questions to: learningcenterhelp@nsta.org

  24. Send your questions to: learningcenterhelp@nsta.org

  25. Send your questions to: learningcenterhelp@nsta.org

  26. Send your questions to: learningcenterhelp@nsta.org

  27. Send your questions to: learningcenterhelp@nsta.org

  28. Send your questions to: learningcenterhelp@nsta.org

  29. Send your questions to: learningcenterhelp@nsta.org

  30. Let’s pause for questions about the Learning Center’s PD Plan & Portfolio tool

  31. Resources and Opportunities

  32. The Learning Center has over 4,700 resources SciGuides [32] Science Objects [67] SciPacks [17] Archived Seminars/Podcast [350+] Web Seminars [16-20/yr] Short Courses [20+/year] Journal Articles [2800+] NSTA Press Books [250+] e-Books [125+] e-Chapters [780+] Symposia [6-10/year] PD Institutes [6-10/year] Over 1,300 resources are FREE to all teachers!

  33. Featured e-PD resources supported by

  34. 2-hour free, self-paced, learningexperience • Interactive simulations • Questions to promote interaction and learning • Based on science education standards • Sixty-seven currently available

  35. Interactive Simulations

  36. Featured e-PD resources supported by

  37. Assessment and Certification Opportunity 3-5 Science Objects SciPack Unlimited ContentMentor Email Support Pedagogical Implications Component

  38. Featured e-PD resources supported by

  39. Valuable classroom resources for science teachers interested in integrating the web into their teaching • Each SciGuide consists of: • Customized lesson plans using selected web resources • Approximately 100 standards-aligned web-accessible resources • Teacher media vignettes describing and showcasing the lessons • Samples of student work • Interactives utilized in SciPack on same topic

  40. Journal Articles • Podcasts • Online Courses • e-Book chapters • Web Seminar Archives

  41. Let’s pause for questions about Learning Center resources

  42. Add free resources to your “Library” and/or directly to your “PD Plan”

  43. Find resources by: • Subject • Learning Resources & Opportunities • All FREE Resources • Advanced Search • Grade Level • State Standards • Learning Preference Now you try it!

  44. “Add to PD Plan”

  45. Advanced Search

  46. Add your resources to Library and Plan now

  47. Let’s pause for questions about resources in the Learning Center

  48. Using the Learning Center Library

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