leadership in high schools

Tonight I have collaborated with Dan Pierce, Alt. Ed. Supervisor LoGuidice and former high school science teacher to provide in-depth training for our science teachers at Hewes Center on the use of the science cart.  The ability of this science cart is only limited by the teachers imagination.  The cart which includes a video data projector is equipped with close to 400 lab experiments.  Unfortunately due to limited teacher training and time to adapt the technology plus become familiar with the all the myriad uses possible, the cart is not used as much as it should be.  Hence our students are denied the wonder of science and technology linked together to make learning real. 

This teacher training will be expanded to include an invitation to the Science liaison in CTE, Hewes and teachers of science at LoGuidice, Ormsby and Baker Road.  All sites that work primarily with our High School student populations.  I believe that two full days of sustained teacher training are needed to both review, experiment and use the science carts to teach with to a group of select students, before familiarity and usefulness of the Science Carts can be fully appreciated by our BOCES instructors. 

My goal as a supervisor is to get the science cart to be used by both Alt. ed and Special ed science teachers at the High School and Middle School level.  In addition, working with the CTE science liaison will assist all three instructional divisions to better collaborate and utilize expensive equipment for the betterment of all students and programs. 

I will propose that two days be set aside within one week for this sustained training opportunity that demands teacher concentration and time away from the classroom in order to ensure more regular use of the science carts.  Watch this site for follow-up news on this instructional resource – the science cart.