Fleet Inquiry InstituteMuseum-Based K-12 Teacher Professional Development

The UC San Diego Science Project

The Fleet Inquiry InstituteFor Teacher Professional Development

The Hands On Lab Undergraduate Course in STEM Teaching

Science Professional Development in Other Informal Institutions

Community Collaboration Around Improving STEM Education: PreK-20

California Science ProjectOur network provides high quality, standards-based professional development in science to ensure that every student achieves the highest standards of academic performance. We do this by:

Developing teachers’ content knowledge and expanding their teaching strategies

Supporting teachers in the effective use of state frameworks, content standards, and instructional materials

Focusing on academic English language development

Creating a pool of expert teacher leaders and university scholars to conduct programs that translate California’s educational policies into sound classroom practices

Linking universities, schools/districts together in partnerships  

California Science Project

California Science Project

San Diego Science Project

The Fleet Inquiry Institute

A place where you can attend to yourselves as professionals.

ACCOMODATING OTHER PEOPLE’S NEEDS

STUDENTS

ADMINISTRATORS

PARENTS

We Work Directly With Teachers in the Classroom and Realize….

The FII is a Learning Community That Depends upon a Common Language to do the Work we Need to doHANDS-ON

INQUIRY

SCIENCE

PROCESS SKILLS

STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING

HANDS-ON

Take Home Messages

• All approaches to hands-on science are not alike – each approach has distinguishable characteristics

• Different approaches to hands-on science support different objectives for learning.

• Effective science teaching requires using a variety of approaches and matching the appropriate approach with specific content, process, and attitudinal learning goals.

“Inquiry isn’t a student’s ability to guess correctly. Rather it is the urge that sends us back to rethink our experiments and investigations, to revise our thoughts and answers.”

“Inquiry is realized in the coming together of material and learner.”

-Wendy SaulBeyond Kit Based Instruction

Lessons can be modified in specific ways toachieve particular purposes.