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Tag Archives: science teaching
Teaching Toward the Future: Adaptation and Climate Change
“I touch the future … I teach” — a quotation associated with Christa McAuliffe — captures something essential about the motivation and hope that keeps most of the teachers I know doing what they do. One of the things that … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development, Schools and Scientists
Tagged Climate Change, science teaching, Standards
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Inquiring Into How Authentic Science Learning Works
Back in September I wrote about the different understandings of what makes “authentic science learning” authentic and therefore engaging for students. Since writing that post, my Schoodic Institute colleagues and I have started a project that involves students in forest ecology and … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged Authentic Learning, Path Analysis, science teaching, Self Efficacy
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Authentic Science
“Authentic” science learning is generally considered to be a good thing that might help engage students who are otherwise not interested in science. But … what makes science education authentic?
Posted in Informal science, Schools and Scientists
Tagged Authentic Learning, science teaching, Self Efficacy
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Standards and Informal Science
Last Friday I was participating in a panel discussion about connecting informal science learning and classroom science–and the question of connecting informal science to standards came up. It’s a perfectly reasonable question. After all, teachers are expected to pay a … Continue reading
Posted in Informal science, Instructional Practice
Tagged Schools, science teaching, Standards
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Self-paced, Student-Centered
Last week I joined a group of science and math teachers to talk about how the new school year was going. One of the teachers is working in a school where the administrative directive is to shift to “proficiency based” and … Continue reading
Posted in Instructional Practice, School Change
Tagged science teaching, self-paced learning, Standards
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