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NSTA Professional Development The Learning Center is NSTA's e-professional development (PD) portal to help you address your classroom needs and busy schedule. You can gain access to more than 8,900 different resources, of which over 3,000 are free. A suite of practical tools such as My Library, My PD Record, and My PD Plan and Portfolio help you organize and document your PD growth. Create your free account and watch the overview.
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Learn online from certified instructors with your colleagues. 1-2 hour seminars, week and month long courses are available. Earn state and university credit.

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The Learning Center is NSTA's e-professional development portal to help you address your classroom needs and busy schedule. You can gain access to more than 8,900 different resources that cater to your preference for learning. Over 3,000 resources, such as journal articles, science objects, podcasts and web seminars are available for free. Other resources include SciPacks, SciGuides, and Short Courses. A suite of practical tools including My Library, My PD Record, My Professional Development Plan and Portfolio, My Calendar, My Notepad, and My PD Indexer are available to help you organize, personalize, and document your growth over time. If desired, you may review an archived Web Seminar overview of the NSTA Learning Center, or download the "How to Guide" PDF (2.7 MB).

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The NSTA Learning Center is an outstanding resource that has proven to be invaluable to our teachers! We have utilized this resource for both beginning teachers as well as more experienced teachers. All of our teachers have found this to be a convenient way to enhance their science content knowledge, an invaluable resource to assist in explaining specific concepts in class, a useful tool for sharing resources with colleagues, and a central location for compiling their lesson plans, examples of student work, and annual progress.

Marguerite A. Sognier, Ph.D.
Director, Educational Outreach
Texas Regional Collaborative, Galveston

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