Enhance Your Teaching
All TLC course content is aligned to the Ohio Academic Content Standards and designed in accordance with Ohio’s Standards for Professional Development. Also
interwoven throughout our workshops is guided implementation of research based pedagogical techniques, like inquiry-based instruction, learning cycles, and cognitive demand.

Courses increase teacher understanding of science content, increase attention to process standards, promote effective use of available resources, differentiate instruction that attends to the needs of all students, incorporate meaningful technology applications and allow teachers to create assessments which increase student success on Ohio's standardized tests (OAT and OGT). 

All courses can be tailored to the specific needs of your group.

Recent Course Topics Include:

INQUIRY BASED TEACHING 
The Ohio CORE requires that students earn three science units with inquiry-based laboratory experience. An inquiry-based laboratory experience “indicates that there will be student-centered, problem-solving components throughout the course” (Ohio Department of Education, 2008). Participants will engage in hands-on activities, discussions, interactive online meetings, blogs and forums and collaborate with colleagues to deepen their understanding of science as inquiry as presented in the Ohio Academic Content Standards and apply inquiry based teaching in their classrooms.

ODE MODEL CURRICULUM
Learn to use the vast resources included in the newly adopted Science Model Curriculum.  Teachers will participate in inquiry activities suggested in the Model Curriculum, learn to navigate the document, and use it to plan their own lessons.  Instruction on vertical alignment and cognitive demand levels will also be included.

PROJECT BASED LEARNING (PBL)
Project based learning allows students to be engaged in solving real-world, relevant and engaging problems as they learn content knowledge.  Courses can include an overview of PBL, time for teachers to create their own PBL activity, and follow-on courses to support teachers as they implement their projects.

ODNR RESOURCES
We can provide teacher training on incorporating the activities found in:  Project Wild (K-12); Project Aquatic Wild (K-12); Project Wet (K-12); Project Learning Tree (K-12); Growing Up Wild (pK-2) and Science and Civics (9-12 with a focus on Capstone and Service Learning Projects).  Teachers receive free books with teacher and student activities.

OHIO RESOURCE CENTER and THINKFINITY 
Certified facilitators reveal the richness of the combined ORC and Thinkfinity resources and illustrate how to search the two sites to find web-based, best practice lessons. They will also show how to integrate standards-aligned lessons into classroom instruction and offer suggestions for varying the use of the resources to address the learning needs of all students. 1 hour, half day or full day workshops available.