This is a self-paced course offered by AEA Learning Online on the Online Training System. Selfpaced

courses can begin at any time, are taken 100% online, and have no deadlines for completion.

To take this course:

1. Go to https://training.aealearningonline.org/course/2200319999/catalog

2. Login with your AEA Login if prompted

3. Read through and confirm the information on the confirmation page

4. Pay the course fee of $540.00.

When you are finished with the course, your license renewal credit will appear on your transcript

within the statewide registration system. For additional questions, contact

support@aealearningonline.org.

This self-paced course provides educators with "must know" information related to state and

federal policies, as well as other responsibilities important for the profession. Participants in the

course will take notes throughout the course and complete a reflection (600 words) on the learning.

This course is intended for all audiences, including teachers not currently in the classroom, paraeducators,

and those with a substitute authorization.

For more information on self-paced courses, be sure to check out our overview to Self-Paced Course

policies and student expectations.

Participants will:

1) learn about how to address student preconceptions in science,

2) learn how to encourage student talk in science,

3) learn the role notebooking in science plays with students'' learning,

4) deepen their content knowledge in life science in order to teach it in more depth,

5) learn more about how to teach students metacognitive skills so their students can integrate these

skills into their learning of science,

6) learn more about the three dimensions of the Iowa Core Science Standards (Science and

Engineering Practices, the Disciplinary Core Ideas and the Crosscutting Concepts) and how these

dimensions help student better understand science.

By incorporating the above practices and strategies, this should allow students to learn the science

at a deeper level.

Participants will need the following books for this course:

A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas.

Washington, D.C.: National Academies, 2012. Print. ISBN: 978-0-309-21742-2 (Online is also available

for free: http://www.nap.edu/read/13165/chapter/1)

How Students Learn: Science in the Classroom. Washington, D.C.: National Academies, 2005. Print.

ISBN: 978-0-309-08950-0 (Online is also available for free:

http://www.nap.edu/read/11102/chapter/1)