STEAM, Makering, Tinkering Professional Development Opportunity!

YSS member Nancy Aycock writes:

Hi all! 

We wanted to let you know about The Teacher Studio which has started for the new school year. If you're new to the group, The Teacher Studio is a learning community made up of educators interested in hands-on, making, tinkering, and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math)-based learning experiences. Each month, participants will make something together and share ideas for supporting maker-based learning experiences with their learners. The Teacher Studio is made up of school-based and out-of-school-based educators from libraries, museums, and after-school programs from a variety of content areas, grade levels, and experience levels with making. The Teacher Studio is a partnership between UW-Madison and the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum. 

 

Our second meeting is at 4:30 - 6:00 pm on Tuesday, November 30, 2021—Online and at MetaSpace 511, the makerspace at the Mukwonago Community Library (511 Division Street, WI 53149, 262-363-6411 ext. 4111). If you are unable to make it to the library but would like to join us, email Peter Wardrip at wardrip@wisc.edu to sign up and he will share the zoom link. We will have a hands-on STEAM activity and discussion along with snacks and a tour of the makerspace. Each month, if it's healthy and safe, we'll be rotating the in-person location so hopefully, we'll catch some of you around the state. 

 

To stay up to date on our future dates, you can keep an eye on this page: https://place.education.wisc.edu/k12-programs/the-teacher-studio/ 

 

Feel free to reach out to Peter at wardrip@wisc.edu or Nancy at naycock@mukwonagolibrary.org if you have any questions. Feel free to forward this to others you think would be interested. We look forward to seeing you this year. 

 

Thank you from your hosts, 

 

Nancy Aycock, MetaSpace 511 Lead Innovator from the Mukwonago Community Library 

 

Peter Wardrip, School of Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Assistant Professor of STEAM Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 

 

Bill Pariso, VP of Education and Mike Cook, VP of Playlab from the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum