Welcome Oregon Science Leaders

1
Welcome Oregon Science Leaders

• Exploring Scientific Inquiry
• August 1, 2002

2
Where Have We Been?OSTA ODE Collaboration

• Developing Professional Developers
• Oregon Science Leader Cadre (1999)
• Paired OSTA Conference with the Summits in Hood
  River (1999) and Newport (2000)
• Regional Work Sessions facilitated by cadre
  following both Summits
• Sessions hosted by ESDs in 2000 and 2001

3
Where Are We Now?OSTA ODE Collaboration

• Developing Professional Developers
• Oregon Science Leaders First Annual Institute
• Goals are to support teachers to build
• content knowledge
• regional strategies
• leadership capacity
• mentoring relationships

4
NW Regional Educational LaboratoryMath and
Science Center
5
Thank you

• OSTA Board
• Science Leader Cadre
• OSU Dept. Science and Mathematics
• Teacher sponsors Cambridge Physics, FOSS, and
  Texas Instruments
• Oregon Math Leaders
• Linfield College

6
Science Leaders Institute

• Collecting and presenting data (CP, Tab 3)
• Scoring student work (S, Tab 2)
• Teacher mentoring (M, Tab 4)
• Standards (O, Tab 1 and 6)
• Regional Planning (RP, Tab 7)

7
Common Questions

• Why did we have to pay?
• Will there be an institute next year?
• How can a newcomer get involved?
• Suggestions
• Volunteer

8
Science Leaders Institute

• Listen with open ears
• Identify key questions
• Collect relevant data
• Engage in meaningful discussions

9
Science Leaders Institute

• Each of us will take this 3-day experience back
  to our building/organization to improve
  opportunities for kids doing science.

10
Science Leaders Insitute