TELS Professional Development Activities
TELS collaborates with over 40 schools in six states to provide and investigate professional development that helps teachers plan and carry out TELS projects.
TELS offers a three-tiered certificate for teachers who become proficient in using educational technology as part of projects that involve scientific inquiry.
TELS teachers can earn continuing education credit for achieving each of the certificate tiers.
 
In the future, our professional development activities will include topics that teachers have said would be useful for carrying out TELS projects. At the behest of the teachers, we will conduct a series of one-day workshops to address issues such as:
Managing projects that use scientific inquiry
Interacting with small groups who encounter difficulties
Identifying examples to add to the mix of ideas that students express about scientific topics
     
Participation in TELS
 
Year
Schools
Teachers
Students
2004-2005
16
45
3443
2005-2006
28
73
4767
2006-2007
~46
~102
~6000
Totals
~50
220
14210