Chris Coker presenting at the AR AIMS Summer 2025 science workshop

The AR AIMS Science Advanced Instructional Methods and Strategies training for science merges strategies and activities with Arkansas science standards-aligned content to increase rigor and student engagement in your classroom. The content and training developed by Arkansas teachers is supported by fully loaded Instructional Resource Support Site for each content listed below. Arkansas AIMS Training includes Arkansas standards-based units that are developed to be flexible while providing teachers with guidance as they implement Arkansas standards and equip for ATLAS. This training also helps teachers prepare students to accelerate to upper-level science courses in the future. The workshop, along with the instructional resource support site, is grade-level/content specific and includes teacher pacing guides, formative and summative assessments, presentations, labs, activities, and many other helpful teacher resources. The summer 2026 training will focus on both new activities and content from previous trainings and will be a complete immersion into hands-on science practices to help teachers fully engage in the 3-D model of the Arkansas science standards specifically aligned with Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) and the Cross Cutting Concepts (CCCs).  Completion of the training gives a teacher access to the instructional resource support site for three years. All workshops are 18 hours in length.