Online Science Professional Development for IB Teachers

Robert Steiner serves as the Project Director for Seminars on Science, the IB online professional development program from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. This award-winning program offers online courses in the life, earth, and physical sciences to teachers across the United States and around the world. Dr Steiner previously created the program in online learning at Columbia University's Teachers College and has a deep and abiding interest in science education and networked learning technologies. He received his BS in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and his doctorate in Physics from Yale University.

Anthony Tait is the Head of School Services for IB North America. He has had a long association with the IB in the Asia Pacific region, where he performed a variety of roles including IB Diploma Programme coordinator, IB workshop leader and CAS coordinator. He has taught for 25 years and has extensive experience in IB assessment procedures, including a role as senior examiner in IB geography and as an IB examination setter. Anthony also lectured part-time at Flinders University (Adelaide) in the School of Education, Law and Theology. He was a course writer in teacher education, and a lecturer of Gifted Education methodologies in the master's of Gifted Education program.