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Professional Development Programs

Our 2008 line-up of professional development programming is designed to work with educators to help you create curriculum and hands-on TEKS/TAKS correlated laboratory activities that both excite and educate your students. MNS Professional Development classes are full-day immersions into how to make your classroom the dynamic atmosphere it can be; enrollment in the class also includes admission to MNS exhibits for the remainder of the afternoon. The Museum of Nature & Science is a fully accredited CPE Provider, and will help you earn the credits you need to satisfy your yearly requirements.

To register for any of the Professional Development Programs or to receive more information about the number of CPE credits you can earn, please call 214-428-5555 and press 8.

Calendar of Professional Development courses for 2008:

Exploring Physics with TI-Nspire™

Course Date: August 12-14, 2008, 9am-4pm daily
Registration Deadline: July 29, 2008
Teachers Teaching with Technology™ (T³), Texas Instruments and the Dallas Museum of Nature & Science invite you to join us for a 3-day workshop entitled Exploring Physics with TI-Nspire™. This workshop will focus on the integration of TI-Nspire handhelds and computer software into the physics classroom. Topics such as: an overview of TI-Nspire, force, mass, acceleration, Boyle’s Law, will be covered.

The workshops offer participating educators the opportunity to:

• Understand the power and potential of TI-Nspire's key pedagogical features
• Take away classroom ready materials suitable for the Physics classroom
• Explore the pedagogical implications of the document model as a tool for presentation, curriculum delivery, problem solving and recording students' thought processes
• Discuss the implications of having students create and use their own documents, along with the value of exploration and investigation using pre-made documents
• Explore assessment opportunities provided by the new tools built into the TI-Nspire
• Encourage the building of a community of educators

Registration:
$50 per person
All participants will receive a TI-Nspire™ handheld, TI-Navigator software and classroom ready activities for Physics.

To register for any of the Professional Development Programs or to receive more information about the number of CPE credits you can earn, please call 214-428-5555 and press 8.