Content Areas - STEM

STEM Professional Development

“Q: What do we know [that] works to improve student achievement in K-12 STEM education?
A: I'd say great teachers, who know the content.”
    –Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education

Teachers are endlessly learning, growing and developing the next generation and themselves. This webpage will be updated regularly with some of the many opportunities available for continued professional growth in areas of science and mathematics and ways to integrate STEM into all content areas. For additional supports please check Instructional Resources.

• Colorado Association of Science Teachers

  The Colorado Association of Science Teachers is the State Chapter of the National Science Teachers Association. This organization provides opportunities through the school year to support professional learning around the Colorado Academic Standards.

• Colorado Science Education Network (CSEN)

  The Colorado Science Education Network (CSEN) is an organization that meets about 7 times a year to network with leaders in science education across the state of Colorado, to provide professional development for science leaders, and to address current issues facing science education and educators.

• Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects

 

• Colorado Technology Association

  The Colorado Technology Association is dedicated to foster growth and opportunity for the technology industry.

  The Annenburg Foundation has a website for educator professional development with great workshops and courses for mathematics and science teachers. The courses are free but for a fee graduate credit is available from Colorado State University.

  Teaching Channel is a website designed to support the professional learning of teachers through videos of high quality teaching, discussion questions and opportunities for asynchronous conversations. Find ideas on integrating design skills using mathematics and science.

• Colorado Experiential STEM Learning Network

  The Colorado Experiential STEM Learning Network’s (CESLN) mission is to collaborate with schools, policy makers, and businesses in order to create extraordinary STEM experiences for students and teachers. Thus, increasing science literacy and promoting science identity construction. The network is designed to create an online and offline community of practice such that interactions lead to an action, whether it be schools reaching out to businesses for hands on activities, or community involvement in student projects and initiatives.

• eNet Colorado

  Through eNetColorado, educators can create, share and access high quality standards-based materials, staff development programs, resources, and tools that support student learning. There is a portal especially dedicated to STEM resources and opportunities.

 

For website assistance in STEM, please contact Violeta Garcia.