MassBioEd’s Teacher Professional Development Workshops provide hands-on, standards-aligned training to help educators in grades 6-12 bring authentic life sciences lessons into their classrooms. These workshops emphasize low-cost lab activities that make biotech education accessible for all schools and qualify for Professional Development Points (PDPs). Workshop topics tie directly into our free curriculum library making it easy to integrate workshop learning with classroom resources.

Training Workshops

All BioTeach workshops are free of charge and open to all New England educators. Training is relevant to educators teaching grades six through 12. Participants from Massachusetts can receive Professional Development Points (PDPs) upon successful completion of 10 hours of training.

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Summer Institute

Our BioTeach Summer Institute focuses on the biopharmacology industry and allows teachers to practice biotechnology and molecular biology techniques and lab activities. The Institute is held over five days in August.  Attendees can earn up to 67.5 Professional Development Points (PDPs) or three graduate credits.

To learn more about the annual BioTeach Summer Institute, contact BioTeach@massbioed.org.

Take Out Training and Equipment (TOTE) Lending Program

Take Out Training and Equipment (TOTE) is a lending program designed for schools that do not have the equipment and reagents to bring desired lab activities to their students. TOTE provides teachers who have attended BioTeach workshops with everything needed to deliver activities and labs that engage students in biotechnology techniques and investigations. Through TOTE students have access to molecular models, micropipettes, reagents, gel electrophoresis and PCR equipment needed to perform restriction digests, plasmid mapping, PCR, and bacterial transformation. As part of this lending program, a BioTeach Instructor provides remote mentoring to partner schools.