"Respect for the way
learners think and the way they learn
is at the heart of effective inquiry teaching." Barry Kluger-Bell
Dr. Barry Kluger-Bell is a Ph.D.
physicist and a nationally recognized science educator with more than 30 years of
experience. Barry provides professional development in inquiry science for K-12
teachers, preschool teachers, science graduate students and informal educators
in museums and out-of-school programs. His professional development workshops
are exciting, motivating and deeply grounded in science and pedagogy. Over the
past three decades Barry has provided professional development for thousands of
teachers both nationally and internationally
and is now an independent Science
Education Consultant based in Boulder, Colorado.
From half-day focused
workshops to week-long institutes, Dr. Kluger-Bell provide professional
development and consulting services in inquiry-based science. His workshops are
built on a major experiential (hands-on) component that forms the basis for
discussion, reflection and implementation planning.
Workshop examples
include:
For K-12 teachers
• Inquiry
and the Next Generation Science Standards
• Modeling Classroom Inquiry: With parachutes,
dissolving lifesavers, snails, and other topics
• Comparing Approaches to Hands-on Science: Making intentional
teaching choices
• Process Skills: Exploring Scientific and Engineering
Practices
• Raising Questions: Enhancing and handling student questions
• Subtle Shifts: Adapting activities for inquiry
• Formative Assessment
& More…
For Preschool
teachers
• Messing About in
Science
• Inquiry
“provocations”
• Building teacher science knowledge to respond to student interest
& More…
For Science Graduate Students in Outreach Programs
• Thinking about pedagogy: comparing teaching
approaches
• How People Learn: introduction to the science of
learning
• Diversity and Equity: exploring diversity in
outreach programs
• Introduction to Inquiry: Experiencing, analyzing
and designing inquiry activities
• Backward Design: A framework for activity design
• Facilitation: How to teach inquiry activities
& More…
For Informal Educators in Museums and Out-of-school Programs
• Introduction to Inquiry: activity, discussion
and structures
• Model inquiry stations: wind tubes, contact
microphones,
batteries and bulbs, static electricity, geometric tiles. ...
& More…
FOR ALL
• Science Inquiry Experiences for Educators:
Shadow, Balance, Streamtables, Pinholes
and more
• Introduction to Inquiry Structure
• Introduction to Process Skills
• Science of Bubbles Festivals
