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YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
To increase the frequency with which the Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Teaching Units
are taught by high school teachers
To create “… a professional community that discusses new teacher materials and strategies and that supports the risk taking and struggle
entailed in transforming practice.”
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Trial, 9 Meetings, 3.5 hours, 4:30 – 8:00 PM
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Pedagogical Framework
Handout
• Epi - 101
• Public Health Professionals
• In the News
• Teachers Teaching Teachers
• Blackboard
Components and Methods
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
To be fully understood, an enduring understanding will have to be explored, questioned, played with, used in realistic contexts, rephrased,
and verified as important in some way.
Epi - 101
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Epi - 101
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Lessons Learned
• This component seems to be working and is well-received.
• You need enough time to adequately cover the material.
• Having an instructor in the classroom helped make the distance teaching work.
Public Health Professionals
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Public Health Nurse
Pertussis
To understand something as a specific instance of a more general case … is to have learned not only a specific
thing but also a model for understanding other things like it that one may encounter.
Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education
Communicable Disease Reporting and Surveillance System
In the News
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Lessons Learned
• Empowering
• Allot adequate time for this activity.
• Can serve as an assessment of teachers’
understanding of the material.
Unit 2 Unit 3Unit 1
Teacher1
Teacher4
Teacher7
Teacher3
Teacher6
Teacher9
Teacher2
Teacher5
Teacher8
Ana Alea-Schlichting
Nicholas Weimmer
Khamis Aburmelieh
Marian Press
Jacqueline Gilker
Karen Browne
Maria Sanchez
Barbara Schneider
Kurshid Siddiqui
Casualties of War Teenage Births Slave Trade
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Teachers Teaching Teachers
Teachers Teaching Teachers
As a group, prior to our next meeting,prepare to teach a 30-minute lesson, based on an assigned YES Teaching Unit,
to your fellow workshop participants.
Have workshop participants experience part of the YES Teaching Unit.
Prepare to lead a 10-minute discussion with workshop participants about how you determined what part of the Yes Teaching Unit to teach and how you prepared to teach that part of the
unit.
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Teachers Teaching Teachers
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Teachers Teaching Teachers
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Diane-Marie St. George, Felicia McCrary, Manuel Bayona, Flora Ichiou Huang, David Fraser, Mona Baumgarten, Mark Kaelin, Chris Olsen, and, not present, Paul Stolley
Blackboard
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Blackboard
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
“In order to be a successful epidemiologist you need to be a very intuitive person and
you need to see patterns that sometimes are not obvious.”
Maria Sanchez
“I’m just afraid that my imagination would get away from me if I was a public health nurse!
I’d be seeing patterns everywhere!”
Ana Alea-Schlichting
Blackboard
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Do you feel prepared to teach your students so that they can develop
these enduring epidemiological understandings?
What can we do better to prepare you?
Lessons Learned
• Stress the importance of this component from the first class session.
• Have both process and content discussion threads available.
• Allow teachers to have separate discussion areas to facilitate their group work.
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
Pedagogical Framework
Teaching the Teaching Units
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
• Epi - 101
• Public Health Professionals
• In the News
• Teachers Teaching Teachers
• Blackboard
To be fully understood, an enduring understanding will have to be explored, questioned, played with, used in realistic contexts, rephrased,
and verified as important in some way.
Unit 2 Unit 3Unit 1
Teacher1
Teacher4
Teacher7
Teacher3
Teacher6
Teacher9
Teacher2
Teacher5
Teacher8
Ana Alea-Schlichting
Nicholas Weimmer
Khamis Aburmelieh
Marian Press
Jacqueline Kilker
Karen Browne
Maria Sanchez
Barbara Schneider
Kurshid Siddiqui
Case-Control StudyTV and Aggressive Behavior Testing Ephedra
Teaching the Teaching Units
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
http://www.collegeboard.com/yes/index.html
YES Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop
To increase the frequency with which the Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Teaching Units
are taught by high school teachers
Thank You