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Obama's Speech - Your Story

How did your school board, PTA/PTO, parents, students react? Did you broadcast Obama's speech live, why or why not? What were the reactions after the speech was over?

FII in the News Again!

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2009/09/03/education/792scienceteach090209.txt

Water Drops

At the July weeklong institute Taylor and Stephanie marvel at how many drops of water they can pile onto a surface of a penny. But next comes the most exciting part...taking the traditional lesson and SHIFTING it to be more student-centered and focusing in on the development of the PROCESS SKILLS!

Course Credit

The upcoming Saturday workshops offered throughout the 2009-2010 school year will be available for credit at UCSD Extension. I will posting a calendar of the workshops within the next 2 weeks. The workshops will begin in October!

Winter Weeklong

Now that the two summer Weeklong Fleet Inquiry Institutes have passed we have more and more interested teachers wondering how they can get involved with Professional Development here at the Fleet.

In order to support teachers who are returning to school sites where they are the only one who went through this transformative experience we will be offering an intensive version of the Weeklong FII for their colleagues and other interested educators during winter break. Dates are still to be determined - if you are interested let us know what dates work for you!

-Cristina

Summer Weeklong Fleet Inquiry Institute July 13-17 and August 17-21, 2009

Here is what some of the teachers have to say about their experience at the weeklong Fleet Inquiry Institute held at the Science Center July 13-17, and August 17-21 2009:

“This new thinking will permeate all my teaching. It also validated things I’m already doing.”

“Inspiring, career-changing; gets you to see your role as teacher very differently; helps you inspire/excite your students.”

“Amazing, energizing, a paradigm shift, necessary for all educators!!!!”

“It’s incredible. Very difficult to articulate the value but it makes you look at the same ideas in a whole new way.”

“My understanding of inquiry changed drastically. I misunderstood the concept of ‘hands-on’ and ‘inquiry’ thinking they were the same. I am much less intimidated by science, the inquiry process, and doing investigations.”

“Went from thinking that deep learning in science comes simply from ‘hands-on’ to the whole process of motivating learners to ask questions, plan investigable questions, investigations, then come to conclusions of learning. It surprised me that the time spent doing inquiry-style investigations led to the same content objectives that I probably would have spent the same [amount of] time “shoveling in” with a direct approach ([the inquiry process is] Still time efficient).”