Ambitious Science Teaching

Author: Mark Windschitl
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
ISBN: 1682531643
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented. The book is organized around four sets of core teaching practices: planning for engagement with big ideas; eliciting student thinking; supporting changes in students’ thinking; and drawing together evidence-based explanations. Discussion of each practice includes tools and routines that teachers can use to support students’ participation, transcripts of actual student-teacher dialogue and descriptions of teachers’ thinking as it unfolds, and examples of student work. The book also provides explicit guidance for “opportunity to learn” strategies that can help scaffold the participation of diverse students. Since the success of these practices depends so heavily on discourse among students, Ambitious Science Teaching includes chapters on productive classroom talk. Science-specific skills such as modeling and scientific argument are also covered. Drawing on the emerging research on core teaching practices and their extensive work with preservice and in-service teachers, Ambitious Science Teaching presents a coherent and aligned set of resources for educators striving to meet the considerable challenges that have been set for them.

Ambitious Science Teaching

Author: Mark Windschitl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781682531631
Category : Action research in education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The book is addressed to classroom science teachers, both beginning and experienced. It is a guide to using four core practices to improve instruction using Ambitious Science Teaching methods.--

Teaching Science to Every Child

Author: John Settlage
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415956374
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Book Description
Teaching Science to Every Child proposes a fresh perspective for teaching school science and draws upon an extensive body of classroom research to meaningfully address the achievement gap in science education. Settlage and Southerland begin from the point of view that science can be thought of as a culture, rather than as a fixed body of knowledge. Throughout this book, the idea of culture is used to illustrate how teachers can guide all students to be successful in science while still being respectful of students' ethnic heritages and cultural traditions. By combining a cultural view of science with instructional approaches shown to be effective in a variety of settings, the authors provide elementary and middle school teachers with a conceptual framework as well as pedagogical approaches which support the science learning of a diverse array of students.

The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching

Author: Terry McGlynn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022654253X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Higher education is a strange beast. Teaching is a critical skill for scientists in academia, yet one that is barely touched upon in their professional training—despite being a substantial part of their career. This book is a practical guide for anyone teaching STEM-related academic disciplines at the college level, from graduate students teaching lab sections and newly appointed faculty to well-seasoned professors in want of fresh ideas. Terry McGlynn’s straightforward, no-nonsense approach avoids off-putting pedagogical jargon and enables instructors to become true ambassadors for science. For years, McGlynn has been addressing the need for practical and accessible advice for college science teachers through his popular blog Small Pond Science. Now he has gathered this advice as an easy read—one that can be ingested and put to use on short deadline. Readers will learn about topics ranging from creating a syllabus and developing grading rubrics to mastering online teaching and ensuring safety during lab and fieldwork. The book also offers advice on cultivating productive relationships with students, teaching assistants, and colleagues.

Designing Effective Science Instruction

Author: Anne Tweed
Publisher: NSTA Press
ISBN: 193613795X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description

Becoming a Responsive Science Teacher

Author: Daniel T. Levin
Publisher: National Science Teachers Association
ISBN: 9781936959051
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When you begin a new unit and discover that some students don't understand an important concept, do you just correct the error and give them the answer? If so, you run the risk that students will memorise what you say without changing their core misconceptions. This book explores how to identify such moments through 'responsive listening' and turn them into opportunities to build students' science literacy.

Helping Students Make Sense of the World Using Next Generation Science and Engineering Practices

Author: Christina V. Schwarz
Publisher: NSTA Press
ISBN: 1941316956
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 393

Book Description
When it’s time for a game change, you need a guide to the new rules. Helping Students Make Sense of the World Using Next Generation Science and Engineering Practices provides a play-by-play understanding of the practices strand of A Framework for K–12 Science Education (Framework) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Written in clear, nontechnical language, this book provides a wealth of real-world examples to show you what’s different about practice-centered teaching and learning at all grade levels. The book addresses three important questions: 1. How will engaging students in science and engineering practices help improve science education? 2. What do the eight practices look like in the classroom? 3. How can educators engage students in practices to bring the NGSS to life? Helping Students Make Sense of the World Using Next Generation Science and Engineering Practices was developed for K–12 science teachers, curriculum developers, teacher educators, and administrators. Many of its authors contributed to the Framework’s initial vision and tested their ideas in actual science classrooms. If you want a fresh game plan to help students work together to generate and revise knowledge—not just receive and repeat information—this book is for you.

Ambitious Instruction

Author: Brad Cawn
Publisher: Solution Tree
ISBN: 9781947604254
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Ambitious Instruction: Planning for Rigor in the Secondary Classroom, authored by Brad Cawn, makes the case for utilizing rigor in the classroom to reinvigorate and modernize daily learning. The author recognizes the need for a clear definition of what rigor is and how it can be used. As such, the book begins by declaring a working definition of rigor that is both academic and instructional. This definition provides a concrete, results-driven foundation to the development of rigor in schools. With this foundation in place, the book guides the reader through the process of creating a more rigorous classroom. Readers will find a wealth of information and advice that they can use to both realize rigor in the classroom and ready their students for it. Using this book, readers will develop the rigorous teaching and learning practices that will revolutionize their instruction and jump-start their students' success in schools"--

Ambitious Science Teaching

Author: Mark Windschitl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781682531662
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds.

Deep Knowledge

Author: Douglas B. Larkin
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807771929
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Deep Knowledge is a book about how peoples ideas change as they learn to teach. Using the experiences of six middle and high school student teachers as they learn to teach science in diverse classrooms, Larkin explores how their work changes the way they think about students, society, schools, and science itself. Through engaging case stories, Deep Knowledge challenges some commonly held assumptions about learning to teach and tackles problems inherent in many teacher education programs. This book digs deep into the details of teacher learning in a way seldom attempted in teacher education textbooks.