Embedding CTS into Your Professional Learning Program

CTS is designed to be easily embedded into a variety of science professional learning settings. It can be as simple as an individual using CTS to plan an instructional sequence, two colleagues studying a curricular topic together, an instructional coach and a new teacher clarifying learning goals, members of a curriculum committee using CTS to inform their curriculum work, an after-school professional learning community (PLC) deepening their understanding of their standards, a preservice methods course using CTS before planning a lesson, or a large workshop setting in which groups combine their studies to examine three-dimensional learning. Whatever the format, topic, or audience, professional learning and collaboration is enhanced when colleagues have opportunities work together to study, analyze, discuss, and apply findings from a curriculum topic study.