The January 2025 meeting of the New Teacher Working Group centered on refining teaching strategies, assessment practices, and classroom management techniques. A member shared insights from their recent student-led experiment project, where students designed chemical reaction experiments. While they initially struggled with…
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The New Teacher Support Working Group launched in October. At the first ever meeting, participants shared strategies to help students build resilience and become problem solvers, with a focus on using tangrams as a hands-on tool to develop these skills.
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In the inaugural meeting of the Harnessing AI for Educators working group, participants explored the growing role of artificial intelligence in education and discussed ways to integrate AI tools effectively into teaching and learning.
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In the Chemistry Working Group’s two meetings this month, participants engaged in a range of discussions aimed at improving both the teaching and learning of chemistry concepts. The first meeting focused on modeling approaches to help struggling students grasp fundamental concepts such as density, mass, and volume.
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In 2023, with the support of the Siegel Family Endowment, STEMteachersNYC launched the Summer STEM Fellows program. This initiative tasked the 2023 Siegel STEM Fellows with deepening our understanding of how professional learning benefits STEM educators and helps them grow in their…
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