This course will help educators build the start of an ongoing series of different projects and themes to use in any makerspace grades K-12! This course is just a little bit about why you need a makerspace, but more important we will be focusing on the what and how behind turning any space into a makerspace. In each PD session you will build a new tool to support making in your school, library, or any other youth focused makerspace.

We will examine 5 questions about makerspaces and dive into the importance of focusing on the culture of a makerspace. Additionally, the audience will undergo a build, play, and share cycle through a hands on immersive challenge to experience the culture of learning. Students will learn how to apply these ideas into any classroom and school to make it work in any setting.

This class is built on the premise that we don’t talk about the ideas, we make the ideas. You can’t buy a Makerspace; you have to make one. Come ready to build, tinker, create, and construct the ideas that you can turn around and use in your makerspace tomorrow. You will walk away with enough ideas to last you a few months until the next session is available.

More important, the PD is designed to help create a cohort of lifelong learners to help one another when you head back to your school. The course is designed to provide the platforms to help you realize you are not alone and we can support each other along the way.

Course Syllabus

Instructor: Aaron Maurer

Session 7508
Dates: 8/30/18, 8/31/18 @ 8:30-3:30; 4 additional hours of 1:1 training TBD
Location: MBAEA, Bettendorf
Registration closes 8/19/18.

Costs:
$95 materials fee for all participants
includes a Maker Kit of materials and the book The Space
$35 1 Relicensure credit
no additional cost for audit

If your school district is paying the materials and the credit fees are to be paid personally, please register and enter the PO number. You will then need to contact the Staff Dev. Dept. to make the payment for credit with a credit/debit card, personal check or cash prior to the start date.

Make Yourself Into a Maker: Builds 4 and 5 will explore further concepts of the maker culture. The goal of this session to work with educators to understand, explore, design, and develop maker projects that can be infused to the standards they are expected to cover.

Like many things in education, this work cannot be an add-on. These two days we will unfold and explore how to weave this type of learning into the work we are already doing so it does not become one more thing.

You do not need to have attended Make Yourself into a Maker - Makerspace: Builds 1-3 to attend this session. While helpful, it will not put you behind. These two days are full of hands-on learning, less talk, more action style of learning.

Be ready to make, experiment, explore, and get messy as we develop learning that will help engage the learners we work within our learning spaces. Come ready to be awesome!

The first day we will explore how to take a picture book and connect it to any standard of any grade level and develop a project around the book and the standards.

The second day we will do a full day PD on the Makey Makey: Invention Literacy helping everyone learn how the Makey Makey works and how to use it in your learning space.

You do not have to have taken Maker Space Builds 1-3 to take this course.

Course Syllabus

Instructor: Aaron Maurer

Session 7528
This course is full.
Dates: 4/9/18 & 4/10/18 @ 8:30-3:30; 4 additional hours of 1:1 training TBD
Location: 212 STEAM Labs, 2967 State Street, Bettendorf
Registration closes 3/20.

Costs:
$95 materials fee for all participants
Participants will receive a Maker Kit of materials to use in the class for making ideas to take back to their school. This will include a Makey Makey, materials to develop a project around a picture book, and more.
$35 1 Relicensure credit
no additional cost for audit

If your school district is paying the materials and you are paying for the credit fees personally, please register and enter the PO number. You will then need to contact the Staff Dev. Dept. to make that payment by credit/debit card, personal check or cash prior to the start date. Call 563-344-6481.

Participants will investigate the components of STEM. After exploring each of the 4 parts of STEM, teachers will continue their learning through collaborative discussions and lesson planning. As part of this work, teachers will strengthen their teaching pedagogy. This instruction and teacher involvement will include designing, administering, and collecting student assessment data, both formative and summative to ensure maximum learning for each and every student. Teachers will work collaboratively across content areas to design and deliver rigorous STEM lessons aligned to content standards.

Course Syllabus

Session: 6739
Instructors: Tammy Askeland-Nagle, Kim Awalt, Robert Reppert, Julie Larson, Heather Cousins
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA
Dates: 9/23/15, 10/15/15, 11/16/15, 1/25/16, 2/22/16
Time: 8:30-3:30
Registration closes on 9/9/15.

Costs:
$200 for 1 Drake EDMA credit
$130 for 1 Relicensure credit
$30 audit/no credit
Fees include $30 for materials

For more information about Drake Univ. EDMA credit visit Drake Credit Info on the MBAEA Professional Development webpage.