Towson University Center for STEM Excellence

Bioscience Education and Outreach Program

Teacher Professional Development for All Maryland Middle and High School Science Teachers

The Maryland Loaner Lab (MDLL) program is offered free of charge to middle and high school teachers throughout the state of Maryland. In order to become eligible to use this FREE program, teachers are required participate in one of our free training programs. Participation in one of these workshops qualifies middle and high school educators to borrow from the Maryland Loaner Lab program. The training is a 3-hour, hands-on workshop designed to allow educators to become familiar with the variety of equipment they will encounter when using the Loaner Lab Program.

Maryland Loaner Lab Training Goals

• Participants will become familiar with and understand how to use the equipment provided in the MDLL activities.
• Participants will be given an opportunity to discuss how to integrate MDLL activities into the current curriculum.

Listed below are three different options for attending a training workshop to qualify you to use the Loaner Lab. You only need to attend a training workshop once to be qualified for the program.

1. Workshops at the Columbus Center

Monthly training opportunities are offered at the SciTech Student Learning Lab, located in the Columbus Center in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. These hands-on workshops will introduce participants to the education and outreach programs, including the Maryland Loaner Lab (MDLL) and the SciTech Student Learning Lab located within Towson University’s Center for STEM Excellence (TUCSE). TUCSE's education and outreach staff will guide participants through a selection of the lab modules offered by MDLL. Each lab will be discussed briefly and specific techniques will be performed by participants to familiarize them with the variety of equipment they will encounter when using the MDLL. Because the training session is only 3-hours, we are not able to focus deeply on the content within each lab. However each lab comes with extensive background material and that material is is available for browsing on the web at any time so that teachers may become familiar with the content that is taught in each activity. At the end of the workshop, teachers will be qualified to borrow any of the modules available through the MDLL program.

Training sessions are generally once a month and are listed below. You can request a later start time if necessary to accommodate later school days and travel time. You must register at least one week before desired training date. We will send email confirmations for all requests we receive, so if you do not receive a reply indicating you are enrolled in a training session within 5 business days of submitting your form, please email and inquire about the status of your request.

The schedule for 2013–2014:

Date	Time
September 3, 2013	5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
October 1, 2013	5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
November 5, 2013	5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
December 3, 2013	5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
January 7, 2014	5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
February 4, 2014	5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
March 4, 2014	5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
April 1, 2014	5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
May 6, 2014	5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
June 3, 2014	5:00 - 8:00 p.m.



• Click here to register for any of the above Columbus Center Training Workshops

2. Custom MDLL Training Workshops

If you can't make one of our regularly scheduled training sessions you may request a custom training date, either here at the Columbus Center or at your school. Please note that we require a minimum of 15 participants to schedule a custom training date and we need a 3-hour time block for the session. If you do not have fifteen science teachers at your school, reach out to neighboring schools and invite other teachers to join. To request a date of your choosing, click on the form found at the link below.


• Click here to request a Custom MDLL Training Workshop