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Professional Development Program

Teaching science as inquiry, engineering as design

The ISEE Professional Development Program (PDP) is a flexible, multi-year program for scientists and engineers at the early stages of their careers, with a primary focus on graduate students.

Participants receive training through workshops, work on a design team before and after workshops, continue developing their skills through mini-workshops and expert consultation, and then put their new teaching skills into practice. The practical teaching experience takes place in “teaching labs” — PDP-affiliated educational programs or courses. PDP participants leave the program as well-trained, innovative, and reflective scientist-educators and engineer-educators.

The PDP includes the following:

ISEE Inquiry Institute

ISEE Design Institute

Teaching experience

 

The 2012 Program details:

2012 Program Brochure

2012 Program Application

 

California/Mainland Residents

Online application - CA

PDF application - CA

 

Hawaii Residents

Online application - HI

PDF application - HI

 

Professionals - Partial Participation

Online application

PDF application

 

PDP Focus Areas: How the PDP focuses on inquiry, diversity & equity, and assessment to design innovative laboratory activities.

 

2012 Teaching Venues (in progress and will be updated soon)

For comprehensive review please see our descriptive paper on the PDP:

Cultivating Scientist- and Engineer-Educators: The CfAO Professional Development Program

The Professional Development Program (PDP) will be jointly sponsored by ISEE and the Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI)).