Posts Tagged ‘Professional Development’

Welcome to Virtual SECO 2010!

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

We’d like to welcome you to the Virtual SECO – our homage to the 2010 Science Education Council of Ohio Professional Development Conference, hosted in Columbus, Ohio, February 25-27.

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Click here for the Official SECO Conference Schedule.

Join us in Columbus, virtually!

(The best part about visiting virtually is that the weather is perfect, even in February.)

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For everyone who isn’t able to make it all the way to Columbus for the live version of SECO, we’d like to offer the Science Companion Virtual version, that you can enjoy from the comfort of your chair. Grab a cup of hot chocolate, and join us for several days of science education fun!

Stay tuned over the next several days. We’ll be offering you a free lesson, introducing you to our Ohio Sales Reps and a special guest, raffling a Habitats teacher materials package, pointing out the vital differences between different kinds of buckeyes, and other important topics!

Enjoy!

What is Inquiry? A Workshop

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Science Companion Field Trip/Chester County Intermediate Unit

cciulogoYesterday, our Author and Director of Operations Belinda Basca visited the Chester County Intermediate Unit 24 and presented a workshop on inquiry science to elementary teachers there.

We wanted to share a bit from that workshop with you — please click the link below to download Belinda’s PowerPoint presentation.

What is Inquiry? PPT Workshop

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Train the Trainers Session…

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Central Bucks School District Field Trip

Thanks to all of you who attended the Train the Trainers Session!

At Science Companion, we believe that teachers are the best teachers, and we recognize that school districts often struggle to come up with funding to bring in expensive outside trainers. So, we use, whenever possible, a “Train the Trainers” model, where one of our Professional Development Experts comes and works with lead teachers in the school district so they can learn how best to support their colleagues.

Here are some photos of the group that met yesterday:

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