YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop To increase the frequency with which the Young...

YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop

To increase the frequency with which the Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Teaching Units

are taught by high school teachers

To create “… a professional community that discusses new teacher materials and strategies and that supports the risk taking and struggle

entailed in transforming practice.”



Trial, 9 Meetings, 3.5 hours, 4:30 – 8:00 PM


Pedagogical Framework

Handout

• Epi - 101

• Public Health Professionals

• In the News

• Teachers Teaching Teachers

• Blackboard

Components and Methods


To be fully understood, an enduring understanding will have to be explored, questioned, played with, used in realistic contexts, rephrased,

and verified as important in some way.

Epi - 101


Epi - 101


Lessons Learned

• This component seems to be working and is well-received.

• You need enough time to adequately cover the material.

• Having an instructor in the classroom helped make the distance teaching work.

Public Health Professionals


Public Health Nurse

Pertussis

To understand something as a specific instance of a more general case … is to have learned not only a specific

thing but also a model for understanding other things like it that one may encounter.

Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education

Communicable Disease Reporting and Surveillance System

In the News


Lessons Learned

• Empowering

• Allot adequate time for this activity.

• Can serve as an assessment of teachers’

understanding of the material.

Unit 2 Unit 3Unit 1

Teacher1

Teacher4

Teacher7

Teacher3

Teacher6

Teacher9

Teacher2

Teacher5

Teacher8

Ana Alea-Schlichting

Nicholas Weimmer

Khamis Aburmelieh

Marian Press

Jacqueline Gilker

Karen Browne

Maria Sanchez

Barbara Schneider

Kurshid Siddiqui

Casualties of War Teenage Births Slave Trade


Teachers Teaching Teachers


As a group, prior to our next meeting,prepare to teach a 30-minute lesson, based on an assigned YES Teaching Unit,

to your fellow workshop participants.

Have workshop participants experience part of the YES Teaching Unit.

Prepare to lead a 10-minute discussion with workshop participants about how you determined what part of the Yes Teaching Unit to teach and how you prepared to teach that part of the

unit.




Diane-Marie St. George, Felicia McCrary, Manuel Bayona, Flora Ichiou Huang, David Fraser, Mona Baumgarten, Mark Kaelin, Chris Olsen, and, not present, Paul Stolley

Blackboard


Blackboard


“In order to be a successful epidemiologist you need to be a very intuitive person and

you need to see patterns that sometimes are not obvious.”

Maria Sanchez

“I’m just afraid that my imagination would get away from me if I was a public health nurse!

I’d be seeing patterns everywhere!”


Blackboard


Do you feel prepared to teach your students so that they can develop

these enduring epidemiological understandings?

What can we do better to prepare you?

Lessons Learned

• Stress the importance of this component from the first class session.

• Have both process and content discussion threads available.

• Allow teachers to have separate discussion areas to facilitate their group work.


Pedagogical Framework

Teaching the Teaching Units


• Epi - 101

• Public Health Professionals

• In the News

• Teachers Teaching Teachers

• Blackboard

To be fully understood, an enduring understanding will have to be explored, questioned, played with, used in realistic contexts, rephrased,

and verified as important in some way.

Unit 2 Unit 3Unit 1

Teacher1

Teacher4

Teacher7

Teacher3

Teacher6

Teacher9

Teacher2

Teacher5

Teacher8


Nicholas Weimmer

Khamis Aburmelieh

Marian Press

Jacqueline Kilker

Karen Browne

Maria Sanchez

Barbara Schneider

Kurshid Siddiqui

Case-Control StudyTV and Aggressive Behavior Testing Ephedra

Teaching the Teaching Units


http://www.collegeboard.com/yes/index.html


To increase the frequency with which the Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Teaching Units

are taught by high school teachers

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