Trainings

 
 
 
 
 
 

In Person Workshops for Teachers

1 - Intro to Making and Tinkering for Everyone - Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 9:00 am

Come build, play, get and be inspired, and meet world famous Gever Tulley, TED speaker and founder of Tinkering School and Brightworks. 

  • Meet other bay area teachers exploring making and tinkering

  • Tour the Brightworks and Tinkering School setup and classroom environment

  • Learn how to bring the maker mindset to everything you do

  • Note for us: [Play with low threshold high ceiling materials]

  • Projects and Provocations

2 - Maker PBL for Any Subject - Monday, February 21st, 2022 @ 9:00 am

  • How to design projects for any subject (or multiple subjects!)

  • Designing open ended provocations to meet your curriculum goals

    • Low-threshold entry points, and high ceiling engagements

    • Common Core and NGSS - reading between the lines to see the beauty and opportunity in a standard

    • Projects and provocations - what’s the difference and why provocations pave the way for engagement

  • Managing Extrinsic Expectations…

    • Documenting student project work in a way that aligns with the standards and your curriculum needs

    • Fostering parental support for homework that doesn’t look like homework

    • Communicating up; getting administrators onboard with your spectacular high-impact plan

  • Small steps to big projects - how to lay the groundwork for bigger undertakings, and how to help teams of students manage complex projects

3 - Making and Math: Weave them together without breaking either one - Saturday, March 12th, 2022 @ 9:00 am

Getting there with hands-on activities that engage young thinkers, designed to work with basic materials (primary and middle school). Physical making develops math foundations that are not typically taught or measured on tests. This workshop takes an interactive look at:

  • Fostering medium- and large-scale projects can develop spatial reasoning skills

  • How we can anchor math concepts like cartesian coordinates and equality

  • How we can build intuition about mathematical/mechanical relationships

  • strategies for broaching math topics with math phobic maker-students, and Gever will wax eloquent about his love of the laser cutter and why every math classroom should have one.

 

Who this is For: These group consultation sessions are for new schools thinking about how to design their programs, existing schools looking to improve their maker programs, and non-school maker space entities such as libraries, etc.

Session Details: Gever will share with participants from his depth of experience building and facilitating learner-centered environments. Each session will have a nominal topic, and will provide opportunity for question and answer from participants.