STEM Ambassadors Returning Training

Asynchronous work 5/6

• Update and get your google site ready to go for year 2
• Write a blog post about your experience last year – how have you changed? What was memorable? What were things you struggled with?
• Attach one more piece about a memorable lesson you taught last summer. Did you have to change it at all? What was good about it or what was bad about it?

Go through the lessons HERE 

• Decide when you would use each lesson for which age group based on developmentally appropriate practices
• Describe problems you may have had with the lessons
• Explain how you might alter these lessons to better fit different aged students
• Get through as many lessons as possible in 2 hours.

The homework for this week is to review some of last year's curriculum and to come up with two lessons that you feel would be age-appropriate for the groups that you serve.  Remember to include an objective, materials, and some key vocabulary words for your slides. Use the current curriculum slides as a template for your new lessons. 

• look at student engagement strategies – how have you used these in the past
  • come up with a list of 15 things that kids aged 6-10 are currently excited about
  • look at the prompts on the end slides and write how you might adapt your teaching

• Come up with ten things you can do in order to be seen as more of a leader in your space
  • How will you greet staff?
  • How will you react to gossip or laziness?
  • Will you respond to things in groupme :P
• Planning document for SA https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IoKm8gEgRJC3JGV-_Sjt7fcV6EBJVXLSolEGr5ykuLg/edit?usp=sharing (make a copy)
  • Put the lessons you want to do in the slideshow - https://stemambassadorspgh.org/summer-curriculum 
  • Everyone will add at least 1 slide to THIS SHOW for Saturday where you will give your best tips and tricks.