AMSTI-UAH🚀

All AMSTI training is TEAMS approved and is provided at no cost to you or your school. AMSTI does not reimburse travel expenses or substitute pay. Please secure permission from your administrator prior to submitting your registration. Thank you!

Science Foundational Training (K-12)

This 1-day professional learning opportunity is a prerequisite for NEW AMSTI and ASIM teachers to attend elementary and secondary science content professional learning opportunities. It is strongly recommended for EXISTING AMSTI and ASIM teachers.

​January 26, 2027, UAH, 8:30-3:30

Register for Science Foundational Training (K-12)

Comparing Organisms (3rd)

This 2-day PLO focuses on examining the variation of inherited traits in both plants and animals, how the environment can affect the expression of individuals’ traits among Wisconsin Fast Plants, patterns of life cycles in plants and animals, and how traits can provide organisms a reproductive advantage.

October 29-30, UAH, 8:30-3:30

​Prerequisite-Science Foundational Training (K-12)

Register for Comparing Organisms (3rd)

Energy and Waves (4th)

This 2-day PLO focuses on different kinds of energy, the transfers and transformations that occur between them, and how energy is used in the world around them.

November 5-6, UAH, 8:30-3:30

​Prerequisite-Science Foundational Training (K-12)

Register for Energy and Waves (4th)

HudsonAlpha-Chromosocks: Cell Division (7th)

This 1/2 day training encompasses how to use ChromoSocks to model the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis. Participants will simulate reduction division and relate this to maintenance of chromosome number during sexual reproduction. Teachers will model a meiotic event with nondisjunction resulting in gametes with changes in chromosome number and relate these changes to monosomy and trisomy. Lessons are part of AMSTI’s Genes and Molecular Machines (GMM) 7th grade unit. Teachers will not receive any materials from this training session.

February 11, UAH, 8:30-11:30

Register for HudsonAlpha-Chromosocks: Cell Division

HudsonAlpha will provide lunch!

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Math Foundational Training (K-5)

This training is a prerequisite for AMSTI K-5 Math Content Area Trainings. This 1-day training is designed to provide an overview of pedagogical strategies to be implemented with any mathematics content. The session focuses on the mathematics teaching practices and the formative assessment cycle.

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Who's the Middleman: Linear Models (3-8)

This one-day session focuses on developing linear models from upper elementary through middle school grades. Participants will experience the foundation of linear models and how they can be extended through high school math concepts.​

February 17, UAH, 8:30-3:30

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January 27, Dekalb County Facilities Building, 8:00-3:00

Dekalb County Facilities Building, 393 Main Street, Rainsville 35986

Register for Who's the Middleman: Linear Models (3-8)

Math Foundational Training (6-12)

This training is a prerequisite for AMSTI 6-12 Math Content Area Trainings. This 1-day training is designed to provide an overview of pedagogical strategies to be implemented with any mathematics content. The session focuses on the mathematics teaching practices and the formative assessment cycle.

November 9, UAH, 8:30-3:30

Register for Math Foundational Training (6-12)

Number Talks and Number Strings (Grades 6-12)

Number Talks and Number Strings for the secondary mathematics classroom will equip teachers with instructional practices that will help students develop mathematical number sense. Number Talks and Number Strings also support the content standards and student mathematical practices by encouraging student discourse and developing accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency.

November 10, UAH, 8:30-3:30

Geometry and Measurement: Triangles (6-8)

This one-day session focuses on connections among grade-band standards and strategies to help students learn triangle concepts and how they connect to other content areas. Participants will explore student-invented strategies, analyze evidence of student understanding to inform planning of next instructional steps, discuss the importance of sense-making, and explore the impact of concrete, semi-concrete, and abstract learning opportunities on the development of conceptual understanding and connections to standard US algorithms.

February 1, Kevin Dukes Center, 8:30-3:30

Kevin Dukes Career and Innovation Academy, 29727 US- 72, Hollywood, AL 35752

​Prerequisite-Math Foundational Training (6-12)

Register for Geometry and Measurement: Triangles (6-8)

Math Modeling: Financial Management (9-12)

This one-day session focuses on growth and decay involving borrowing and investing that frequently use spreadsheets as a powerful tool to assist with modeling financial situations. Participants will explore student-invented strategies, analyze evidence of student understanding to inform planning of next instructional steps, discuss the importance of sense-making, and explore the impact of concrete, semi-concrete, and abstract learning opportunities on the development of conceptual understanding and connections to real world problem situations.

November 3, UAH, 8:30-3:30

Or

March 1, Kevin Dukes Center, 8:30-3:30

Kevin Dukes Career and Innovation Academy, 29727 US- 72, Hollywood, AL 35752

​Prerequisite-Math Foundational Training (6-12)

PLC Follow-Up, December 19, Virtual

Register for Math Modeling: Financial Management (9-12)

ACAP Math Part 1: Teacher Experience (6-8)

This three-hour session focuses on helping teachers prepare students for the ACAP Math portion. Participants will review important ACAP test information, learn about ACAP Math test structure, investigate how to use the ACAP Test Item Specifications to write ACAP-like questions, and explore resources for utilizing ACAP-like questions for instruction and/or assessment.

January 15, UAH, 8:30-11:30

Register for ACAP Math Part 1: Teacher Experience (6-8)

8*8 Math Practices: Understanding and Worthwhile Tasks (6-12)

This 3-hour session is part of a series that focuses on a deep dive into the eight student mathematical practices and the mathematical teaching practices from the 2019 ALCOS. This session focuses on four of the eight mathematical teaching practices including establishing goals, implementing tasks, connecting representations, and building procedural fluency from conceptual understanding.

January 15, UAH, 12:30-3:30

Register for 8*8 Math Practices: Understanding and Worthwhile Tasks (6-12)

2019 ALCOS: Mathematics Overview (6-12)

This 3-hour session that focuses on understanding the new 2019 Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics and its conceptual framework: Position Statements, Mathematical Teaching Practices, Student Mathematical Practices and the 6-12 Content Areas.

January 20, UAH, 8:30-11:30

Register here for 2019 ALCOS: Mathematics Overview (6-12)

Quality Questioning: Effective Questioning to further Student-Centered Learning (6-12)

Quality Questioning: Effective Questioning is a training that focuses on using purposeful questions to assess and advance students’ reasoning and sense making about important mathematical ideas and relationships.

January 20, UAH, 12:30-3:30

Register here for Quality Questioning: Effective Questioning to further Student-Centered Learning

ACT Math Part 1: Teacher Exp (9-12)

This three-hour session focuses on aligning math instruction with the ACT assessment and providing a systematic approach to maximizing student achievement. Participants will review valuable information about the ACT, explore test-taking strategies and resources including online calculator practice that can be used during testing, and experience creating ACT-like questions for use during classroom instruction to prepare students to take the ACT math assessment.

​February 5, UAH, 8:30-11:30

Register for ACT Math Part 1: Teacher Exp (9-12)

8*8 Math Practices: Reasoning (6-12)

This 3-hour session is part of a series that focuses on a deep dive into the eight student mathematical practices and the mathematical teaching practices from the 2019 ALCOS. This session focuses on four of the eight student mathematical practices including making sense of problems, attending to precision, reasoning abstractly and quantitatively, and constructing arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others.

​February 5, UAH, 12:30-3:30

Register for 8*8 Math Practices: Reasoning (6-12)

Who's the Middleman: Linear Models (3-8)

This one-day session focuses on developing linear models from upper elementary through middle school grades. Participants will experience the foundation of linear models and how they can be extended through high school math concepts.​

February 17, UAH, 8:30-3:30

Or

January 27, Dekalb County Facilities Building, 8:00-3:00

Dekalb County Facilities Building, 393 Main Street, Rainsville 35986

Register for Who's the Middleman: Linear Models (3-8)

Educator Wellness and Inspiring Students (6-12)

This 1/2-day professional learning opportunity deeply delves into Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how it relates to educator wellness and inspiring students. We will explore self-care strategies educators can use to promote physical, mental, social, and emotional wellness. In addition, participants will explore strategies that can be applied at each level of Maslow’s hierarchy to make students’ educational experiences more engaging and invigorating.

February 11, UAH, 12:30-3:30

Register for Educator Wellness and Inspiring Students

Secondary Engineering & Computer Science Experience: Prosthetic Tails (6-12)

This 1-day face-to-face session is designed for 6th-12th grade math and science teachers to take a deep dive into the engineering design process while also exposing participants to skills in Digital Literacy and Computer Science (DLCS). Throughout the experience, connections for application within math and science will be examined.

November 12, UAH, 8:30-3:30

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April 30, UAH, 8:30-3:30