scienceS cool is a primary science education consultancy business that provides teacher workshops on pedagogy and science background knowledge.
Established in 2009 as 'Katherine Harris consultancy' it has had a name change and has since provided face-to-face professional learning for hundreds of teachers and worked with dozens of schools from the Gold Coast to the Sunshine Coast and west to Laidley and Boonah.
Teacher professional learning is our core business but in 2012 scienceS cool also began resource development to support teachers to improve their confidence and competence to teach science.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Professional Development series

New workshop series:

Small group workshops for year level or phase of schooling teams of teachers during planning days.

These workshops are run over a series of days throughout the year at your school to allow teachers to experience investigations and teacher background knowledge in science in a choice of sub-strands from the Australian Curriculum: Science.

For example: St. Vincent's School, Clear Island Waters booked Mondays over a term to allow all their teachers to participate in small group workshops on Chemical Sciences and Physical Sciences. Their usual planning days were split into half days and each teacher attended a workshop on their half day twice during the term.
They included 3 day PrimaryConnections Curriculum Leader Training for three teachers on staff who represented the Early Years, Middle Primary and Upper Primary. They also had a full day of PrimaryConnections professional development on a pupil free day for the whole staff.