Guide to Professional Development of
Out-of-School Science Activity Leaders

From the National Partnership for After School Science (NPASS)

NPASS

Sample Agendas

The type of professional development you carry out can depend on the amount of funding for your program and the amount of time you have with activity leaders. The context considerations for your participants as well as their experience with and background in leading science activities will also affect how you plan your workshops. In this section, we offer some sample basic agendas illustrating how to carry out the following professional development options:

For each of these options, we offer some ideas for how a series of workshops can be combined into a comprehensive professional development program.