Professional Development Workshop (K-5)
Possible Opportunities:
- Work with the InventionLIT or InventionLearning to create a presentation tailored to your needs
- Learn directly from Dr. Arlyne Simon, patented inventor, author of the Abby Invents picture book series, and founder of SeeSoar Kids
Original Opportunity - Participating teachers will:
- Learn how to use almost any children’s book as a launch point for Invention Education
- Contribute one book-based invention lesson to the InventionLIT open source library and gain access to the ever-expanding InventionLIT repository of invention-based lessons connected to children’s literature
- Try out their InventionLIT lessons with their students, then debrief with the cohort
- Workshop best practices with fellow K-5 teachers from across the country
- Learn directly from Dr. Arlyne Simon, patented inventor and author of the Abby Invents series
- Interact with a world-renowned panel of female inventors including Dr. Arlyne Simon, Dr. Angelique Johnson and Dr. Roselin Rosario-Meléndez.
- Collaborate with master invention educators, Jennifer Mead from the California Invention Convention and Dr. Pascha Griffiths from the Massachusetts Invention Convention
- Participate in 12 PDP hours of STEAMie (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, Invention, & Entrepreneurship) Professional Development
- Receive a second stipend for “paying it forward”
- Upon completion, participants will be invited to gather 5 fellow teachers to create their own local InventionLIT community. “InventionLIT graduates” will share the open source InventionLIT library with their local cohorts. In turn, each 2nd generation InventionLIT teacher will be asked to contribute one invention lesson derived from a children’s book to the InventionLIT library
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Hear What People Are Saying...
"Where to begin... students seeing that they have what it takes to be an inventor - Finding problems to solve in their day to day lives..... Creating an invention, AMAZING! "
"Learning that there is literature out there to support Invention Ed is great!"
" I'm encouraged that there are educators that see and value, the importance of this type of education.
Our learners will benefit! When we model these habits and actions-- it just becomes who they are."