AMSTI-UAH
K-12 Math, Science, and DLCS PL
Math Foundational Training K-5
This training is a prerequisite for AMSTI K-5 Math Content Area Trainings. This 1-day training is designed to provide an overview of pedagogical strategies to be implemented with any mathematics content. The session focuses on the mathematics teaching practices and the formative assessment cycle.
June 25, 2024 UAH, 8:30AM-3:30PM
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July 16, 2024 Morris Middle School, 8:30AM-3:30PM
NUMBERS: Fractions & Decimals 3-8
This 3-day Fractional and Decimal session focuses on learning key fraction concepts such as equivalence and magnitude before the operations. The session will make connections of decimals to fraction concepts prior to practicing operations on decimals. Participants will acquire knowledge of the big ideas of fractions and decimals to implement effective math instruction. Educators will use current math strategies and resources to aid in effective classroom instruction.
June 4-6, 2024 UAH OPB 234, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Developing Decimal Concepts 3-5
This 6-hour module focuses on the extension of the place value system, connecting fractional reasoning to decimal notation, constructing meaning through concrete, semi-concrete, and abstract representations, comparing and ordering, and applications in measurement and monetary units. Participants will analyze evidence of student understanding to inform the planning of the next instructional steps and explore mental math and number sense routines to foster student discourse and conceptual understanding. Math Foundational Training (K-5) is a required prerequisite.
June 7, 2024, UAH, OPB 234, 8:30AM-3:30PM
January 17, 2025 (Follow-Up) UAH, SKH 212, 12:00PM-3:00PM
NUMBERS: Number Sense K-5
This 2-day module focuses on number meaning, number relationships, number operations, problem types/structures, and problem solving.
June 27-28, 2024 UAH OPB 234, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Overview of Using Proficiency Scales to Support Instruction and Assessment K-5
In this session, participants will explore how proficiency scales can be used to support instruction and assessment. At the end of this session, participants will know the basic components of proficiency scales, explain the benefits of using proficiency scales, and describe the process of implementing proficiency scales to help guide instruction and assessment.
July 9, 2024 UAH SKH 212, 8:30AM-11:30AM
Number Sense Routines in the K-5 Classroom
There is power in number sense routines! During this three-hour K-5 session, participants will explore categories of daily math routines, connect routines to the Student Mathematics Practices and the Alabama Course of Study K-5 content standards. This hands-on and interactive session will provide multiple opportunities for participants to experience and analyze routines and collaboratively practice purposeful planning of routines with their colleagues. There is no prerequisite for participation in this session.
June 11, 2024 UAH OPB 234, 8:30AM-11:30AM
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July 9, 2024 UAH SKH 212, 12:30PM-3:30PM
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July 16, 2024 Morris Middle School, 12:30PM-3:30PM
Exploring Multiplication and Division 3-5
Multiplication and Division are two content priorities within the 3-5 grade band. Instructional time focuses on developing understanding and fluency with multi-digit multiplication, and understanding of division to find quotients. Educators will dig deeply into the research and big ideas through content deepening sessions, analyzing student work samples, and determining next instructional steps. Throughout the training, teachers are making the connections to the 3-5 content standards and student mathematical practice within and across grade levels. Math Foundational Training (K-5) is a required prerequisite.
July 10-11, 2024, UAH, SKH 212, 8:30AM-3:30PM
September 20, 2024 (Follow-Up) Location TBD, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Number Talks K-5
How can educators make shifts in their instructional practices to help students develop number sense? How can educators provide opportunities for students to accurately, flexibly, and efficiently build computational fluency?Join us for an interactive and collaborative professional development opportunity to explore the power of Number Talks! In this introductory session, we will explore how Number Talks: support the content standards and Student Mathematical Practices, aid students in developing mathematical number sense, engage students in classroom discourse.
July 12, 2024 UAH SKH 212, 8:30AM-11:30AM
Choral Counting and Counting Collections in the Early Grades K-2
Counting is fundamental to learning mathematics in elementary school, supporting the development of a deep understanding of numbers, and providing the core foundation for understanding place value. It is the basis upon which operations with whole numbers, estimation, and algebraic thinking build. Through the powerful instructional routine of Choral Counting and Counting Collections, students are engaged in rich mathematics, which can be utilized to pursue a broad range of mathematical goals throughout elementary school. By increasing the magnitude of the collection or by including packaged items, students can explore several mathematical concepts and develop a deep, conceptual understanding of quantity.
June 11, 2024 UAH OPB 234, 12:30PM-3:30PM
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July 12, 2024 UAH SKH 212, 12:30PM-3:30PM
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July 16, 2024 Morris Middle School, 8:30AM-11:30PM
NUMBERS: Measurement & Geometry K-5
NUMBERS is professional development for intermediate grade teachers reflecting on teaching and learning mathematic big ideas through interaction and engagement of students. This 2-day Geometry and Measurement session focuses on learning key math ideas. Participants will acquire knowledge of the big ideas of geometry and measurement to implement effective math instruction. Educators will use current math strategies and resources to aid in effective classroom instruction of geometric measurements.
July 18-19, 2024 Morris Middle School, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Math Foundational Training 6-12
This training is a prerequisite for AMSTI 6-12 Math Content Area Trainings. This 1-day training is designed to provide an overview of pedagogical strategies to be implemented with any mathematics content. The session focuses on the mathematics teaching practices and the formative assessment cycle.
June 12, 2024 UAH OPB 234, 8:30AM-3:30PM
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June 20, 2024 UAH OPB 234, 8:30AM-3:30PM
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July 2, 2024 UAH SKH 212, 8:30AM-3:30OM
Number Talks and Number Strings (Grades 6-12)
Number Talks and Number Strings for the secondary mathematics classroom will equip teachers with instructional practices that will help students develop mathematical number sense. Number Talks and Number Strings also support the content standards and student mathematical practices by encouraging student discourse and developing accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency
June 13, 2024 UAH OPB 234, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Probability 9-12
This session will focus on the Algebra and Functions content area, the ACT assessment as it relates to instruction, and Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics connections. In this session participants will engage in activities and tasks that provide experiences with empirically and theoretically derived probabilities of chance outcomes to focus on the independence of events and conditional probability concepts that have numerous applications in human decision making.
Math Foundational Training (6-12) is a required prerequisite.
June 14, 2024 UAH OPB 234, 8:30AM-3:30PM
October 29, 2024 (Follow-Up) UAH SKH 212, 8:00AM-11:00AM
Using Proficiency Scales to Support Instruction and Assessment
In this 1-day face-to-face session, participants will explore how proficiency scales can be used to support instruction and assessment. At the end of the session, participants will be prepared to implement proficiency scales in an upcoming unit.
June 25, 2024 UAH, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Geometry and Measurement Part 1 (9-12)
This session will focus on the Geometry and Measurement content area, the ACT assessment as it relates to instruction, and Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics connections. In this session, participants will engage in activities and tasks that provide experiences with transformations to study congruence and geometric ideas that enable the use of algebraic concepts through the study of functions and relations with coordinates and graphs in different representations. It encompasses points, lines, planes, parallel and perpendicular lines, distance formula, and Pythagorean Theorem.
Math Foundational Training (6-12) is a required prerequisite.
June 27, 2024 UAH, 8:30AM-3:30PM
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July 19, 2024 Morris Middle School, 8:30AM-3:30PM
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October 29, 2024 (Follow-Up) UAH, 12:00PM-3:00PM
Statistics 6-8
This session explores the statistical process as a means to help students understand statistical concepts. Participants will apply the student mathematical practices to statistical content.
Math Foundational Training (6-12) is a required prerequisite.
June 28, 2024 UAH, 8:30AM-3:30PM
September 17, 2024 (Follow-Up) UAH SKH 203, 8:00AM-11:00AM
Algebra & Functions Part 1 (6-8)
This session explores the connections among the Algebra and Functions content standards. Participants will explore strategies that support students' conceptual and procedural understanding of variables, equations, and solving equations.
Math Foundational Training (6-12) is a required prerequisite.
Day 1: July 9, 2024, UAH OPB 234, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Day 2: September 24th, UAH SKH 212, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Day 3: November 12th (Follow Up) UAH SKH 212, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Algebra and Functions Part 1 & Part 2 (9-12)
Part 1: This session will focus on the Algebra and Functions content area, the ACT assessment as it relates to instruction, and Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics connections. In this session participants will engage in activities and tasks that provide algebraic and functional experiences with patterns and relationships among numbers and objects in different types of expressions, equations, and inequalities through different representations.
Math Foundational Training (6-12) is a required prerequisite.
July 10, 2024 UAH OPB 234, 8:30AM-3:30PM
November 8, 2024 (Follow Up) UAH SKH 212, 8:00AM-11:00AM
Part 2: This session is a continuation of the Algebra and Functions Part I which will focus on the Algebra and Function content area, the ACT assessment as it relates to instruction, and Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics connections. In this session participants will engage in activities and tasks that provide algebraic and functional experiences with patterns and relationships among numbers and objects in different types of expressions, equations, and inequalities through different representations. Algebra and Functions Part I is a prerequisite for this session.
July 11, 2024 UAH OPB 234, 8:30AM-3:30PM
November 8, 2024 (Follow Up) UAH SKH 212, 12:00PM-3:00PM
Geometry and Measurement: Triangles (6-8)
This session is designed to support teachers in implementing the Geometry and Measurement content area. Participants will engage in tasks designed to help students build conceptual and procedural fluency in solving real-world and mathematical problems related to triangles.
Math Foundational Training (6-12) is a required prerequisite.
July 16, 2024 Morris Middle School, 8:30AM-3:30PM
November 19, 2024 (Follow-Up) UAH SKH 211, 8:00AM-11:00AM
Geometry and Measurement: Transformations and 3D Shapes (6-8)
This session is designed to support teachers in implementing the Geometry and Measurement content area. Participants will engage in tasks designed to help students build conceptual and procedural fluency in 2&3D polygons. Math Foundational Training (6-12) is a required prerequisite.
July 17, 2024 Morris Middle School, 8:30AM-3:30PM
November 19. 2024 (Follow-Up) UAH SKH 211, 12:00PM-3:00PM
Math Nation Implementation (6-12)
The purpose of this 6-hour session is to explore how Math Nation’s digital
resources complement previous AMSTI training on instructional routines and address the Alabama Course of Study for Math, how the Assessment tools can be
used to support instruction, and how to utilize the remediation resources on the platform.
July 15, 2024 UAH, 8:30AM-3:30PM
AMSTI Science & Engineering
K-12
Science Foundational Training (1 day)
Please note some dates are FULL, please choose an open date when registering!
June 10, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
June 18, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
July 22, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
KINDERGARTEN
Ready for Weather
June 27, 2024 (Madison Elementary, Madison City Schools, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day PLO focuses on seasonal change and the importance of weather forecasting. Participants explain two weather-related phenomena and propose solutions to weather-related problems. Participants figure out how a pole became wet on one side while remaining dry on the other side. Participants use data to figure out and explain why a snowman melts at some times but not others. Participants consider and propose solutions to weather-related problems based on location. Participants work more independently to design a weather preparation plan for a fictional class preparing for an all-day hike. Participants also explore the warming effects of the sun by designing and building a covering to block the sun.
Plant & Animal Needs
June 26, 2024 (Madison Elementary, Madison City Schools, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day training focuses on the structures, needs, and life cycles of plants and animals. Participants explore how plant seeds grow and observe zebrafish and milkweed bugs in their natural habitat. Participants are also exposed to the impacts humans have on the environment, particularly related to trash and recycling.
Objects in Motion
June 25, 2024 (Madison Elementary, Madison City Schools, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day PLO focuses on the properties and characteristics of objects in motion and the effects of forces on objects. Participants explain a phenomenon and solve a problem related to the game of air hockey and explain a second phenomenon related to the game of miniature golf. Participants explain what happened to a hockey puck before it moved quickly into a goal and solve the problem of designing a hockey game that can be played at home or at school. They also explain the phenomenon of a golf ball changing its direction of motion inside a mini golf feature.
FIRST GRADE
Living Things
June 27, 2024 (Madison Elementary, Madison City Schools, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day PLO focuses on the connection between nature and the human-made world. Participants explore how behavior and external parts help living things survive. Participants construct an explanation about how to identify species of animals and plants. Participants also define problems plants and animals face and design solutions using the structure and function of the plants and animals. They explore penguins, Wisconsin Fast plants, Banana plants, and flamingos to construct explanations about the structure and function of the external plant and animal parts.
Sky Patterns (Sound Light Sky Crossover)
June 25, 2024 (Madison Elementary, Madison City Schools, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day crossover PLO is for teachers previously certified in Sound, Light, and Sky. New activities have participants observe and record the patterns of the day and night sky by recording moon phases and creating sundials. They carry out an investigation to interpret observations of the sky at different times of the day throughout the year and find patterns in the appearance of the sun and moon. Participants also identify and recommend how to solve the problem of walking to school in the dark.
SECOND GRADE
Growing Plants
June 14, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
June 25, 2024 (Madison Elementary, Madison City Schools, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day PLO focuses on what plants need to live, grow, and reproduce, and how these factors are parts of a system that work together in each plant’s habitat. The participants observe orchids and collect data on the effects of providing/withholding enough water, light, nutrients, and air and apply agricultural engineering to solve a pollination problem using bees. Participants use the Engineering Design Process to imagine, plan, create, and improve their own hand pollinators.
THIRD GRADE
Weather & Climate
June 4-5, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 2-day PLO focuses on weather in diverse climates. Participants explore the properties of water, the water cycle, and interactions between water and other earth materials. Participants learn how humans use water as a natural resource and depend on new technologies that are being engineered to conserve and protect this natural resource.
Comparing Organisms
July 9-10, 2024 (Arab City Schools Professional Learning Center, 241 South Main Street, Arab, AL 8:00-3:00PM)
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July 16-17, 2024 (Horizon Elementary, Madison City Schools, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 2-day PLO focuses on examining the variation of inherited traits in both plants and animals, how the environment can affect the expression of individuals’ traits among Wisconsin Fast Plants, patterns of life cycles in plants and animals, and how traits can provide organisms a reproductive advantage.
FOURTH GRADE
Energy & Waves
June 12-13, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 2-day PLO focuses on different kinds of energy, the transfers and transformations that occur between them, and how energy is used in the world around them. Participants investigate the two main types of energy and participate in interactive demonstrations to draw comparisons between them. They also learn about waves examining energy patterns and making connections to forms of communication. Nonrenewable and renewable energy sources are introduced and Participants explore the benefits and detriments of different types of alternative energy.
Soils, Rocks & Landforms
July 9-10, 2024 (Arab City Schools Professional Learning Center, 241 South Main Street, Arab, AL 8:00-3:00PM)
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July 16-17, 2024 (Horizon Elementary, Madison City Schools, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 2-day PLO focuses on providing participants with firsthand experiences with soils, rocks, and modeling by using tools such as topographic maps and stream tables to engage with the surface of Earth’s landscape. Participants investigate weathering, erosion, and deposition by water, ice, wind, and living organisms to determine the impact of changing the variables.
FIFTH GRADE
Matter & Interactions
June 25-26, 2024, (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 2-day PLO focuses on matter and its interactions in our everyday life. Participants investigate with mixtures, solutions, solubility, concentration, and chemical reactions to develop the understanding that matter is conserved when it changes state, dissolves in another substance, and when it is part of a chemical reaction. They also engage in engineering experiences with the separation of materials.
Navigating the Sky
July 9-10, 2024, (Arab City Schools Professional Learning Center, 241 South Main Street, Arab, AL 8:00-3:00PM)
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July 16-17, 2024 (Horizon Elementary, Madison City Schools, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 2-day PLO focuses on investigating how the Sun’s daily pattern of motion causes changes in shadows over a day, using models to explain how the rotation of the Earth on its axis causes these changes in shadows, and the Sun’s daily pattern of motion. Participants create and use a model to explain how distance impacts the apparent size of objects. They plan, design, create, test, and improve a model parachute to examine how changes in a parachute canopy material, canopy size, or suspension line length affect how quickly or slowly it falls.
SIXTH GRADE
Space Systems Exploration
June 3-5, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 3-day PLO focuses on Earth’s place in the universe. Students explore Sun-Earth-Moon phenomena, our solar system, and the role of gravity in the universe through using models, analyzing data, and developing explanations.
Space Systems Exploration (Crossover)
June 7, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-11:30AM)
This half-day crossover PLO is for teachers previously certified in Researching the Sun-Earth-Moon System and Exploring Planetary Systems. New activities include updates to modeling the Sun-Earth-Moon system and scaling the sizes and distances of planets in the solar system. A new engineering design challenge has been added for students to define criteria and constraints surrounding long-duration habitation in space.
June 7, 2024, Weather & Climate Systems (Crossover) (UAH, 12:30-3:30PM)
This half-day crossover PLO is for teachers previously certified in Understanding Weather and Climate. New activities include building a barometer, modeling the water cycle on Earth, and investigating storm surge.
Weather & Climate Systems
June 11-13, 2024 (Bob Jones High School, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 3-day PLO focuses on phenomena related to atmospheric and oceanic weather events and processes. Students experiment with factors that determine storms and daily weather, explore the impact of oceans on the earth, and examine the influences that produce climate zones and climate changes.
Earth's Dynamic Systems (Crossover)
June 21, 2024, (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day crossover PLO is for teachers previously certified in Exploring Plate Tectonics and Exploring Planetary Systems. Changes include an updated activity to model the rock cycle and new activities for modeling a lahar and modeling glacial erosion. A new “drilling for oil” investigation has been added for students to study the distribution of Earth’s resources.
Earth's Dynamic Systems
June 24-27, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 4-day PLO focuses on our ever-changing Earth, including the structure of the Earth’s interior and crust to explain powerful natural events that have shaped Earth’s history and impact humans today. Students develop and manipulate models to study earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate movement.
SEVENTH GRADE
Genes & Molecular Machines
June 3-6, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 4-day PLO focuses on how organisms reproduce and what that means for their genetics. Students will investigate cells and their processes, patterns of inheritance, and how humans can influence the traits that organisms have.
Genes & Molecular Machines (Crossover)
June 7, 2024, (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day crossover PLO is for teachers previously certified in Studying the Development and Reproduction of Organisms and Investigating Biodiviersity and Interdependence. Changes include new activities such as investigating the variation of zebrafish and the rooting of Coleus and updated activities for mitosis, meiosis, pollination, and seed dispersal.
Structure & Function
June 10-12, 2024 (Bob Jones High School, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 3-day PLO focuses on how the structure and function of organisms contribute to their survival. Students will use models and carry out investigations to explore microscopic cells, the human nervous system, and the external and internal anatomy of a frog.
Structure & Function (Crossover)
June 13, 2024 (Bob Jones High School, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day crossover PLO is for teachers previously certified in Studying the Development and Reproduction of Organisms and Investigating Biodiversity and Interdependence. New activities include a frog dissection and updated nervous system activities.
Ecosystems and Their Interactions
June 24-27, 2024 (UAH, 8:30AM-3:30PM)
This 4-day PLO focuses on how organisms interact with the living and nonliving components of ecosystems. Students engage in activities such as building a pond ecosystem to explore concepts such as symbiotic relationships, how matter cycles through an ecosystem, factors that affect the growth of an organism, and population dynamics.
EIGHTH GRADE
Energy, Forces, & Motion
May 28-30, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 3-day PLO focuses on how forces, motion, and energy relate to our daily lives. Students perform a series of investigations using rolling objects, magnets, dynamic carts, and a model roller coaster track to develop an understanding of Newton’s laws, magnetism, and conservation of energy.
Energy, Forces & Motion (Crossover)
May 31, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day crossover PLO is for teachers previously certified in Experimenting with Forces and Motion. New activities include using tennis balls, dynamic carts, and an updated roller coaster track to study energy, forces, and motion.
Matter & Its Interactions
June 10-13, 2024 (Bob Jones High School, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 4-day PLO focuses on the structure of matter, predicting its behaviors, and distinguishing matter based on characteristic properties. Students conduct investigations to explore the properties of matter, how atoms interact to form molecules and chemical reactions.
Matter & Its Interactions (Crossover)
June 20, 2024 (UAH, 8:30-3:30PM)
This 1-day crossover PLO is for teachers previously certified in Exploring the Properties of Matter and Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements. New activities include using density beads and molecular models and a new engineering challenge to design hot and cold packs.
High School Science
ACT Science Experience (Phase 1): Improving ACT Science Scores (9-12)
This 1-day face-to-face session provides teachers with information and strategies to support student success on the Science portion of the ACT. The session includes an overview of the types of questions and strategies for each, a discussion of the reporting categories, and additional resources. This session is a pre-requisite for participating in the remaining ACT Science Experience sessions but also serves as a stand-alone session for teachers.
June 17, 2024, UAH, 8:30AM-3:30PM
Introduction to Guided Inquiry Learning (6-12)
In this 1-day face-to-face session, participants will: 1) learn how to implement guided inquiry lessons with students, 2) engage in guided inquiry learning as students, and 3) discover how implementing guided inquiry learning lessons can help prepare students for the ACT Science assessment.
July 2, 2024, UAH SKH 211, 8:30-3:30PM
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