Claims, Evidence, Reasoning: Making Student Thinking Visible

KEY INFORMATION

• LOCATION: Virtual, on Zoom
• DATE & TIME: Tuesday, Dec 2, 2025, 7-9pm
• LED BY: Glen Stuart
• CTLE AVAILABLE: 2hrs
• THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR: teachers of any grade engaging students in inquiry, research, phenomenon-based learning, and/or project-based learning.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The Claims, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) framework aims to provide language and techniques to help your students construct clear, evidence-based arguments and explanations. Leveraged in combination with responsive teaching, these strategies exceed the sum of their parts to increase student learning and outcomes, making student thinking visible. This 2-hour virtual workshop asks you to engage in a case study - a specific activity from an Environmental Science classroom - but the techniques can be adapted to any subject depending on your needs. You will start in student mode, and engage with and experience what these strategies look like, sound like, and feel like. Then, you will shift into teacher mode to unpack these ideas as they relate to our classrooms. By the end of the workshop you will be able to define CER as well as ecological resilience, identify and counter common student misconceptions about both ideas, and build the confidence to adapt and implement these strategies in your classroom.

THIS WORKSHOP IS ALSO PART OF AN AUTUMN SERIES for teachers using research project-based curriculum working up to student-driven investigations and year-end project showcases. All are welcome to join, and participants in the NYAS Scientist in Resident program are specifically invited. Other workshops in this series include:

• Sun, 11/9, From Classroom to Research Lab: Part 1 - Generating Testable Research Questions Experimental Design
• Sun, 11/23, From Classroom to Research Lab: Part 2 - Experimental Design

WORKSHOP LEADER

Glen Stuart has been a participant and facilitator of this and other workshops at STEMteachersNYC for 10 years. He earned an M.A from Rider University and a B.S. From Rutgers. Currently, he is in his 13th year of teaching Environmental Science and Biology at Montgomery High School in New Jersey.

ABOUT STEMteachersNYC

Since 2011, STEMteachersNYC has delivered professional development workshops for teachers, by teachers, about teaching. We are an approved CTLE and NYCPS MTAC vendor. All workshops over 2hrs offer CTLE. Below is some important information, but please see our official Registration FAQ on our website for full details and policies.

Pricing: workshop/event pricing reflects a desire to offer affordable professional learning experiences. Some workshops are subsidized and offered at a discount or for free.

CUNY & other partner campus pre-service students: If you are training to be a teacher, we want to welcome you to attend our workshops for free! Please email registration@stemteachersnyc.org for details and to see if you qualify.

Want to pay by invoice or purchase order? We encourage you to ask your school or organization if this is a possibility. Please see the Registration FAQ for the process.

Are there discounts available? Often, yes! In the summers, we offer Early Bird and Teacher discounts alongside a Full Price ticket meant for those whose school or organization is funding their ticket. In the summer, we also have full scholarships, and a Fellowship available. All year, we announce specials and discounts on our social media (@STEMteachersNYC on Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Facebook), and in our Weekly Newsletter – sign up here. Additionally, we partner with several organizations and CUNY to offer free tickets to teachers and pre-service teachers involved, and if at any time price is a barrier to you purchasing a ticket, please contact us at registration@STEMteachersNYC.org

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If you do not wish to be photographed or video-recorded – you must inform us before the workshop starts. For in-person workshops, we may take one photograph of your face so that we can erase your image if we happen to catch it by chance during the workshop, and we will do our best to avoid you.

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• Registration or ticketing questions - registration@STEMteachersNYC.org
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