Scienceplus: Technology and Society English/Espanol edition (English and Spanish Edition)

Science & Math

Robert E. Yager

Charles McFadden

Technology

STECK-VAUGHN

Do the Standards really matter in middle school? Nine years after the National Science Education Standards' release, just how well do science teachers in grades 5 to 8 actually use them to plan content, define improved teaching, and assess real learning? Find out the answers to these key questions in this groundbreaking collection of 15 essays by teachers, researchers, and professors whose specialty is middle school. Nine years after the release of the Standards, these educators describe what they're doing to achieve the visions for the reform of teaching, assessment, professional development, and content. All the visions correspond to the Less Emphasis and More Emphasis conditions that conclude each section of the Standards, characterizing what most teachers and programs should do less of as well as describing the changes needed if real reform is to occur. Among this collection's wide-ranging essay topics: 'Teaching Science With Student Thinking in Mind,' 'The Relationship Between a Professional Development Model and Student Achievement,' 'Creating a Classroom Culture of Scientific Practices,' 'Traveling the Inquiry Continuum: Learning Through Teacher Action Research,' 'What Do We Get to Do Today? The Middle School Full Option Science System Program,' and 'Teach Them to Fish.' This volume is the third in NSTA Press's Exemplary Science monograph series, which provides the results of an unprecedented national search to assess how well the Standards' vision has been realized.

Exemplary Science in Grades 5-8: Standards-Based Success Stories

Science for Kids

Natl Science Teachers Assn

Just as science education doesn t stop at the schoolhouse door, neither should effective application of the National Science Education Standards. Exemplary Science in Informal Education Settings shows real-world examples of how science education reform has taken hold in museums, science centers, zoos, and aquariums as well as on television, radio, and the internet. This essay collection the fifth volume in the Exemplary Science Monograph Series features 17 informal education programs that were judged to be most successful at increasing participants learning. The programs demonstrate how the Standards can be used to inform and improve science education in a wide range of settings and with learners ranging from pre-schoolers to older adults.

Exemplary Science In Informal Education Settings: Standards-Based Success Stories

This book will help the reader to design and evaluate varying professional development options, thereby making better and more efficient use of limited professional development dollars. The editors of Exemplary Science: Best Practices in Professional Development If you want to make the most of your precious professional development budget and who doesn t? look for inspiration in this updated edition from the Exemplary Science series. This essay collection is designed to spark new ideas while encouraging high-quality learning opportunities for teachers at all grade levels. The book features: An overview of current research on quality professional development and how it aligns with the National Science Education Standards. Fourteen professional development programs that provide real-life models of how to train current or future teachers to carry out the constructivist, inquiry-based approach recommended by the Standards. End-of-chapter questions help you relate the material to your own situation. A reader s guide that includes suggestions for using the book in professional learning communities and other collaborative settings. Some of the collection s authors contributed to the first edition and have updated their chapters to share additional data and communicate what they ve learned that might support your work. Additional chapters describe programs and approaches new to this edition. Whether you re a teacher, staff development provider, administrator, or preservice science methods instructor, you ll find this collection to be a fresh and highly useful professional learning tool.

Exemplary Science: Best Practices in Professional Development (Exempary Science Monograph)

Susan B. Koba

Brenda S. Wojnoswski

Since K 12 students taught using the new [Next Generation Science Standards]will be arriving in college classrooms prepared in a diff erent way from those in our classrooms currently, it would behoove college teachers to be prepared to alter their teaching methods ... or be perceived to be dinosaurs using the older teaching methods. From Exemplary College Science Teaching If you re looking for inspiration to alter your teaching methods to match new standards and new times, this book is for you. As the first in the Exemplary Science series to focus exclusively on college science teaching, this book offers 16 examples of college teaching that builds on what students learned in high school. Understanding that college does not exist in a vacuum, the chapter authors demonstrate how to adapt the methods and frameworks under which secondary students have been working and make them their own for the college classroom, adding new technologies when appropriate and letting the students take an active role in their learning. Among the innovative topics and techniques the essays in this book explore are Lecture-free college science teaching Peer-led study groups as learning communities Jigsaw techniques that enhance learning Inquiry incorporated into large-group settings Interactive video conferences for assessing student attitudes and behaviors The clichéd image of the professor droning on before a packed lecture hall is a thing of the past. The essays in this book explain why and offer the promise of a better future.

Exemplary College Science Teaching (Exemplary Science Monograph)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Everybody talks about STEM initiatives, but is anybody doing them effectively? This book s answer is a resounding yes! It tells the inside stories of 24 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs that both connect with the Next Generation Science Standards and lead to successful student learning. The featured programs make it clear that STEM education can work for all age levels and in a variety of settings traditional classrooms, charter and magnet schools, informal education programs, and after-school and summer activities. A look at the chapter titles shows you the broad range of STEM-related subjects: STEM Starters: An Effective Model for Elementary Teachers and Students STEMRAYS: After-School STEM Research Clubs Urban STEM: Watch It Grow! Mission Biotech: Using Technology to Support Learner Engagement in STEM Mixed-Reality Labs: Combining Sensors and Simulations to Improve STEM Education A State STEM Initiative Takes Root and Blossoms Developing STEM Site-Based Teacher and Administrator Leadership Whether you re a teacher seeking fresh ideas, an administrator eager to learn what other schools do, or a district science coordinator charged with making p

Exemplary STEM Programs: Designs for Success - PB192X10

Herbert Brunkhorst

National Science Teachers Association - NSTA Press

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