NYC CSD #6/New York Institute of Technology (STEM)
School District:
Consortium of Community School Districts 6, 1,2,3,4,5,24,25,27,29,75,88 and Charter D84 (Harlem Success DOE Charter Schools I-IV, Bronx Preparatory Academy Charter); Parochial Non-Public Schools, (Incarnation, St. Elizabeth’s, Beth Jacob. St. Agatha); and Non-Public Private Schools (Manhattan Day, Riverside Weekly, Winston Prep and Mesirta Tifereth Jerusalem, New York City)
Focus Area:
STEM
Curriculum Area:
K-12
Abstract:
The Manhattan Collaborative STEM Professional Development Project (the PROJECT) is a three year K-12 professional development partnership between New York City Department of Education Community School Districts #6 Consortium, in partnership with the New York Institute of Technology, City College – Engineering Department (CUNY), Key Curriculum Press, Salvadori Center for Exploring the Built Environment and Texas Instruments. Approximately 290 teachers, working in more than 300 schools, are targeted for high quality and engaging professional development.
The PROJECT is designed to provide STEM subject area interdisciplinary-focused, differentiated, sustained, and “best-practice” based professional development in both standards-based STEM subject/interdisciplinary content areas and STEM subject/interdisciplinary instructional pedagogy over a three-year period.
THE PROJECT participants are divided into the following five cohorts based on their interests and qualifications:
Cohort #1: 60 teachers are participating in Graduate Coursework, enabling them to earn STEM Certification.
Cohort #2: 30 teachers are participating in Geometer’s Sketchpad and will be trained in the use of the mathematical software and the effective integration of this technology into their mathematics instruction.
Cohort #3: 50 teachers are participating individually and in groups to integrate technology into their classrooms and achieve certification as Texas Instrument T3 regional trainers.
Cohort #4: 60 elementary teachers are participating in the Childhood Education Science & Engineering Concentration at the City College of New York which will emphasize the use of scientific inquiry and design problem solving in teaching science and engineering topics.
Cohort #5: 60 teachers are participating in Teaching Mathematics through the Structures that Surround Us, which is an immersive professional development program that uses the built environment as a means to provide teachers with concrete and practical methods of improving the teaching of mathematics.
Program Contact:
Denise McNamara Mary Lou Wainwright 52 Chambers Street 4360 Broadway New York, NY 10007 New York, NY 10033
(212) 374 – 0870 (917) 521 – 3701
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