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FREE ESTEP (Earth Science Teachers Education Project) Spring and Summer 2024 Online Courses are filling up FAST!
SPRING Earth Science Essentials 1 and MN Rocks and Natural Resources are FULL!
There are just a FEW seats left in SPRING Teaching and Learning Earth Science in 3D! Sign up NOW - classes begin January 8, 2024!
Is ESTEP for you?
6th grade Teachers! Dive in and improve your content and pedagogy knowledge in these key earth and space science areas! Our courses are designed for TEACHERS and will be invaluable as you develop your course, and begin working on transitioning to a student sense-making approach!
High School Teachers! GET READY! New legislation states that all students must complete one credit of Earth and Space science in high school to graduate. These courses will help deepen your understanding of the key content areas and 3-dimensional pedagogy. Along with our summer bootcamps, these courses will help those of you working toward passing the required content MTLE exam to add additional licensure in 9-12 Earth and Space Science.
Spring 2024 Offerings (Courses run January 8 - May 8 2024)
GEOS 599: MN Rocks/Natural Resources for ESTEP Teachers - FULL!!!
GEOS 599: Earth Science Essentials I - FULL!!!
GEOS 599: Teaching and Learning Earth Science in 3D for ESTEP Teachers - A few seats left!
This is a newly developed course that focuses on the skills required to teach and learn science in the 3 dimensions (disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts)! Work with master teacher Marlene Schoeneck to become a 'facilitator of sensemaking' in your classroom!
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Teaching and Learning Earth Science in 3D gets in-service teachers directly involved in making sane shifts to their current strategies, in order to get students immersed in the real practices and cross-cutting concepts of science, as well as the content. This course will be a blend of synchronous, and asynchronous learning, in order to facilitate practice and discussion in a manner that will be of immediate use to teachers in the classroom, but will also give an eye to long-term methods to make science learning cohesive and real. Teachers will develop a storyline on an Earth Science topic of their choice as a part of the course, with ample time and support to make it realistic and valuable for their students. |
Don't wait to register! Course begins on January 8 2024!
Email Sue Bertch at susan.bertsch@mnstate.edu TODAY and let her know you would like to enroll. She will send you a registration link.
ESTEP Online courses are FREE! Yep - you earn 3 graduate credits from MSU Moorhead for FREE!
ESTEP Online courses are mostly asynchronous - there are a few mandatory synchronous meetings throughout the semester. As Teaching and Learning ES in 3D is a pedagogy course, there are three Saturday morning meetings and a few evening meetings (see Important Details below).
Interested in other ESTEP programming?
Summer 2024 Course Offerings (Courses run May 15 - July 10 2024)
GEOS 599: Earth Systems Science for ESTEP Teachers
ESTEP Summer Bootcamps for 6th grade and High School Earth Science Teachers!
Click HERE for more information and registration!
The Important Details
These courses are offered through the Continuing Studies Department at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Each 3-credit graduate level course is facilitated by expert instructors who are leaders in their fields and based in Minnesota at NO COST to you!
*Please note that these are 3 credit, graduate level courses, and while mostly asynchronous, each require approximately 4-6 hours of work per week, including a required final Pedagogy assignment in all content courses.
+All ESTEP online courses EXCEPT Teaching and Learning Earth Science in 3D for ESTEP Teachers have THREE required synchronous virtual meetings on two scheduled Saturdays from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm.
**Teaching and Learning Earth Science in 3D is a pedagogy and methods course. This course will meet synchronously on a more frequent basis (two weekday evenings per month + one Saturday morning - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - per month). These meetings are required.
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Note: ALL online courses are designated as blended. This means that the courses are offered in an asynchronous style, with scheduled assignment turn in dates and assessments, AND there will also be REQUIRED synchronous online meeting times per course. In order to earn a passing grade and credit for the course, participants MUST commit to both asynchronous AND synchronous requirements. A final pedagogy assignment is also required for all content courses.
The Earth Science Teacher Education Project, or ESTEP, is a professional development program for 6th grade and high school earth and space science teachers. Our goal is to facilitate and model best practices in content and three-dimensional teaching strategies so that MN teachers can become practitioners of these new standards and create an environment of investigation and discovery in their classrooms. Graduate credit for all summer bootcamps and online courses are available to participants for FREE (there may be a nominal registration fee for each course/camp; lodging and other expenses are not covered by the grant). Additionally, participation in ESTEP can help prepare currently licensed high school science teachers to obtain an additional licensure in 9-12 Earth and Space Science through MTLE testing.
Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).
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