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2nd Annual Beginning Teacher STEM Conference

What:	A two-day conference with speakers, STEM content breakout sessions, networking opportunities, and more.
When:	July 29 and 30, 2014
Where:	I Hotel and Conference Center 1900 South First Street Champaign, IL 61820
Why:	It is an opportunity for new teachers with a focus on STEM to: Attend sessions led by master teachers and STEM university faculty, all of whom are experts in their field Top rated breakout sessions from 2013 plus a range of new sessions Gain valuable teaching tools and ideas to use in their classroom next year Reflect on and share the past year’s teaching experience Network with other new teachers from around the state

Archive of Conference Materials and Presentations

Conference materials including:

• Agenda
• Conference Booklet
• I-STEM article about the conference
• News release

Activity	Presenters
B1. Engineering and Imagination -- Helping Children Visualize the Invisible	Jennifer Bernhard
C5. Science Vocabulary Acquisition	Patricia Braun
D3. The NGSS & Cosmology	Dave Leake
D4. Teaching as an Ongoing Experiment	Kristen Walker
D5. Juegos y Conversaciones: ELLs and Reasoning, Precision, and Arguments	Juan Gerardo

Conference Sponsors

Special Thanks to Conference Sponsors
The Illinois New Teacher Collaborative would like to thank the Governors State University, the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Engineering at Illinois, and the State Farm Companies Foundation. Their support was key in making the conference a reality.