Expansive STEM Education Free Virtual Professional Learning
- Free
- For Teachers
- biology
- ngss
- science
- stem
Description
Expansive STEM Education: Course 1: Gender Affirming Education
Are you an educator interested in learning about the science behind sex diversity in the natural world? Have you been wondering how to diversify your teaching about “reproduction” and “reproductive systems’’ beyond male/female binaries? Are you looking for resources to support your own learning and teaching around these topics? Teaching disciplinary knowledge accurately and engaging in gender affirming pedagogy can increase the rigor of learning and contribute to socially just learning environments. In this 10-week online course, you will learn about the genetic and behavioral diversity of sex and sex-linked behaviors in the natural world (including humans). You will critically examine the connection between social and political contexts and how science has shaped our understandings of sexual selection and sex-linked behaviors in ourselves and in the wider natural world. You’ll practice ways to analyze, adapt, and design learning/ curricular materials to move beyond gender binaries (with science to back it up!). With increasing anti-LGBTQIA+ movements spiking around the country, gender-affirming education that reflects the best science that we know is more important than ever.
This course is FREE for participants. All participants who successfully complete the course will receive a certificate from the University of Washington Bothell as documenting 40 hours of learning and educators in the states of MI, WA state, and IL can earn up to 40 continuing education/clock hours (but educators from all states are welcome!).
DATES/TIMES:
Thursdays on Zoom
Feb 29 - May 2, 2024
4 - 5:30pm PT / 5-6:30 pm MT/ 6 - 7:30pm CT/ 7 – 8:30 ET
Sign up to register or check out the attached flyer and/or the project website for full details.
Learning in Places
Learning in Places is a project funded by the National Science Foundation and is a 4-state collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University and University of Washington Bothell, education and community leaders, and educators in Washington, Michigan, Louisiana, and Illinois. We are designing, implementing, and studying a model of field-based science education for PreK-5 students that centers equity and families’ cultural ways of knowing, is NGSS aligned, asks “should-we” questions (what should we do?), or questions that involve ethical deliberation and decision-making, and integrates literacy and civics/social studies learning. We aim to expand students’ understanding of nature-culture relations – that is, relations between human worlds and the natural worlds – towards just, sustainable, and culturally thriving forms of life by cultivating ethical decision-making, communal adaptations, and leadership. We are looking for cohorts of PreK-5 teachers and educators to join us in this exciting project!
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Created:
Dec. 13, 2023, 6:17 p.m. -
Published:
Dec. 13, 2023, 6:18 p.m.