The National Certificate for STEM Teaching (NCST) is a competency based, online professional learning opportunity supported by an online coach. Consisting of 38 lessons, most educators complete the program in four-five months. Analyze instructional strategies that further strengthen STEM instruction beyond high quality, standards-based, content area instruction. Bulk discounts are available for school and district purchases.

Personalize protocols to help students productively analyze, critique and defend argument.

Develop tools for using CER with your students across grade levels and content areas.

Increase student engagement and learning through a practical approach to the 5E model.

Adapt existing resources to increase student involvement – and learning - during investigations.

Create a customized tool for planning instruction that includes the Engineering Design Process.

Use technology to support standards and increase the overall instructional strength.

Integrate social and communication skills instruction to increase the impact of cooperative learning strategies.

Choose the best place to begin using components of PBL with your students and grow from there over time.

Preplan questions that strengthen student discussion and understanding.

Preplan questions and activities that help students self-identify misconceptions.

Expand your intentional use of reading resources and comprehension strategies for informational text.

Learn how to use a variety of writing strategies to help K-12 students become better writers of informational text.

Establish fundamental structures for online success: routines, instruction, grading, and teaching presence.

Incorporate synchronous learning, continual improvement, social/emotional strategies, and online teaching standards.

Faciliate belonging, personal agency, collaboration, and respect in the online environment.

Strengthen virtual communities through relevance, constructivism, discourse, and new definitions of success.

Incorporate the "4Cs," culutural awareness, online safety, and life skills into content area instruction.

Facilitate deeper understanding through virtual field trips, real-world and home-school connections, and data literacy.

Incorporate meaningful feedback that guides student learning in reponse to online assessments.

Expand online assessment to include performance-based artifacts, capacty matrices, individual goal setting, and ongoing reflection.

Teach your best science lessons yet! A user-friendly, practical guide to starting and strengthening your use of STEMscopes NGSS!

Teach your best science lessons yet! A user-friendly, practical guide to starting and strengthening your use of STEMscopes!

Choose from a wide variety of strategies to increase science instruction in spite of limited time.

Explore the concepts that shape three-dimensional learning and design phenomena-driven lessons for your students.