Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation Schools

We completed a full district summer training at Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation Schools in Laurel, Maryland.

Hands-On Teaching

Learning how to incorporate STEM through a PLC has hundreds of benefit's, but being Hands-On is one of the best. With every group session, Educators will be tasked

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Group Sessions

Indulge in the Whymaker experience and the P.D. Offering you chose by yourself or with a group of up to 20 Educators. Whymaker will have Group sessions with you and your colleagues to professionally develop your skills with STEM teaching.

Not only that, you'll be able to chat and brainstorm amongst each other to formulate new ideas and projects within your school. Each PLC includes Sessions of up to 1 hour each, Including 20 educators maximum, in a virtual or in person enviroment

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What they asked for help with:

Organizing technology & computer science curriculums
Developing a common language between teachers at all levels and schools
Teachers needed to learn multiple computer science languages and technologies
Helping teachers plan out robotics competitions
Creating classroom management strategies for working in technology classrooms

How we helped:

14 teachers taught & trained
1 conjunctions of localised features (CLF) network curriculum map created
10 technologies learned
6 robotics teams created
26 new design thinking projects implemented
6,400 students impacted

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What we accomplished together:

5 full days of customized, flexible professional development
CLF curriculum map for technology created
Developed CLF technology classrooms rules and regular vocabulary identified
Teachers learned: Designing 4 Humans, code.org, 3D Printing, VEX, VEX IQ, Lego Mindstorm, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Scratch, HTML, and Python
Detailed plan for classroom management of technology courses