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Promising Practices

 

Participants in these academies implement, evaluate and refine a number of research-based promising practices.  Among them are:

• Data-driven differentiated instruction and comprehensive school improvement strategies in STEM areas

• Performance-based instruction and assessment for P-12 students, preservice and inservice teachers

• Action research to develop reflective teaching practices in BCPS and at UMBC

• Inquiry-based teachng and learning

• Problem/issue-based teaching and learning

• Technology enhanced instruction and assessment

• The 5E planning, teaching, assessing model for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

• Teacher leadership model development tied to capacity building within individual schools and district

• Distributed and site-based leadership model development with the schools

• Culturally responsive pedagogy

Dr. Anne Spence, UMBC Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Michael Colonna, Southwest Academy Science teacher work together at the UMBC BCPS STEM '06 summer seminar.