What is the first day and week of school like for your students? Often it’s stressful and confusing, with information coming at them from many different angles. But would you like to make those first few hours something to remember? Do you want to energize and captivate them in your STEM classroom? A great year together begins with a great first day together, and the first few weeks of a new school year can set the stage for a year full of collaborative learning, laying the groundwork for a supportive community to grow in your classroom. And we have a workshop to help you prepare for just that!

Create a STEM classroom for any age (K-12) which is as welcoming and structured as possible. Thinking about those first encounters and experiences, this workshop will have you participate in and learn techniques such as:

Designing ways so you get to know your students, which help them also form bonds and connections amongst each other.
Introducing protocols, big ideas, and structures for your classroom, including assessments, the “Game of Science,” and techniques like CER (Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning).
Implementing simple, community-building activities centered on an engineer/design challenge.
And setting a positive tone, a welcoming environment, and a classroom where safety is a priority.
Help you and your students build supportive relationships in a healthy social-emotional learning environment that will last the entire year. Develop your toolkit for creating and deepening connections with each of your students and classes as you all learn together. And you will leave this workshop with strategies ready to be used this September to make your classroom a rich, student-centered place of learning!