Participants will thus increase their content knowledge while learning to use the inquiry format for instruction. The goal is that teachers learning by inquiry during the academic year will focus on inquiry, with specific examples modeled across the curriculum to ensure transfer into the classroom. Conscious effort will be made during the training sessions to relate content and skills to the Ohio Science Proficiency Outcomes. Discovery Teacher Leaders model the constructivist teaching approach during each session with different content as they guide the teachers' learning. Teachers are then be given materials so that they can design and lead developmentally appropriate activities with their own classes between sessions.
Participants discuss and critique the success of their activities and lesson designs.
Participants also develop performance-based assessments concept understanding and skill acquisition.