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
• Facilitation Workshops
• Teaching experience

2013 Program Details:

• 2013 Program Brochure

• 2013 Program Application - Apply Online  

  • California/Mainland Resident 

  • Hawaii Residents

• PDP Themes & Frameworks: How the PDP focuses on inquiry, diversity & equity, and assessment to design innovative laboratory activities.

• PDP Teaching Venues

• For comprehensive review, please see our descriptive paper on the PDP: Cultivating Scientist- and Engineer-Educators 2010: The Evolving Professional Development Program

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