Proviso Teachers Get More Professional Training and More High Tech Class Equipment to Promote Student Learning
Forest Park, IL...Proviso Township High Schools’ teachers are enhancing their skills and bringing more high technology equipment into their classrooms to promote student learning and student engagement.
This week 16 PTHS biology teachers spent two days learning how to use labquest, CO2 gas sensors, temperature sensors, and oxygen sensors in order to incorporate the new equipment and knowledge into their curriculum. The training is a part of PTHS’s overall focus on improving curriculum and instruction, and increasing the levels of engagement for PTHS students.
“We know that high levels of student engagement are vital to our students learning and grasping the materials being taught in class is equally as important,” said PTHS 209 Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, Dr. Cheryl Pruitt. “By incorporating new technology, providing additional classroom manipulatives, and by supporting our teachers through professional development we are able to increase the rigor and content being taught. Additionally, with new resources and materials, teachers can have a greater impact in the classrooms.”
After the two day training, each teacher will be able to bring their training equipment back to their classrooms and put those powerful learning tools in the hands of students.
“We are learning how to use all of this new equipment to make labs easier to understand and more interesting for our students,” said Proviso West biology teacher Rich Craddock. “Time is a big issue in the classroom. Using new technology, our students can complete their labs more quickly, receive data instantaneously, and develop better understanding of the scientific process.”
Dr. Joan McGarry, Director of Professional Development, Teaching and Learning, says each month PTHS science teachers will have professional development training to build their knowledge in their specific content areas in order to improve instruction district wide. Each month teachers will have training on new technology to use in their classrooms for their students.
Forest Park, IL...Proviso Township High Schools’ teachers are enhancing their skills and bringing more high technology equipment into their classrooms to promote student learning and student engagement.
After the two day training, each teacher will be able to bring their training equipment back to their classrooms and put those powerful learning tools in the hands of students.
