Schedule Camps run Monday – Thursday of each week Week 1 – June 13-16, 2016 Week 2 – June 20-23, 2016 Week 3 – June 27-30, 2016 Daily schedule for teachers will be 8am to noon on Mondays and 10am to noon on Thursdays, plus two afternoons (1-5 p.m.) with students.   Location Akins High School 10701 S 1st St Austin, TX 78748 Map / Directions   Eligible Attendees Middle school and high school teachers with...

  Java Fundamentals March 21, 2016 – May 11, 2016   Java Programming May 16, 2016 – May 25, 2016   Location Both training sessions will be held online.   Eligible Applicants Texas Computer Science teachers and potential Texas Computer Science teachers.   Description The Texas Regional Collaboratives (TRC) in the Center from STEM Education at UT Austin, in partnership with Oracle Academy, and TCEA, is...

  Schedule and Locations This Teacher Workshop will consist of a total of three Saturdays. Teacher Training Session Saturday, January 23, 2016, 1 – 5 pm Mandatory for all enrollees The University of Texas at Austin 1912 Speedway Sanchez Building, Room 411 Austin, TX 78712 View Map Student Sessions Participants must commit to serving as a Teaching Assistant (TA) during two of the four student sessions being held on the following...

  Without a doubt, STEM education is receiving a substantial amount of attention these days. Given this ubiquitous attention to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, one would think that school districts across the state and nation are giving more and more students opportunities to experience courses and extracurricular activities related to computing, a key component of the “T” in STEM. Unfortunately, that would be an...

The Texas Regional Collaboratives (TRC) at UT Austin, in partnership with Oracle Academy, and TCEA, is offering a free series of courses for Texas teachers interested in teaching computer science. This series of professional development experiences will prepare participants to teach courses such as Computer Science I, Computer Science II, or AP Computer Science. Since the AP Computer Science course is based on the Java programming language, this will be the focus of the technical training component. The KCJO online coursework in Fall 2015 will focus on Java Fundamentals.

The flipped classroom has recently gained increased interest among K-12 educators as an effective instructional method for improving interaction and personalized contact time between students and teachers. At its core, flipped learning moves elements of teaching out of the classroom and into the homework space. With the emergence of new technologies, specifically the ability to record digitally narrated and annotated screencasts, instructional videos have become a common medium in flipped classrooms. These short lessons can be an excellent opportunity to effectively demonstrate complex concepts, illustrate and discuss strategies for teaching specific concepts, including lessons designed to support teacher learning.Not limited to digital video, a flipped classroom often harnesses different forms of instructional media both online and offline.