Ideas For Use
Teachers will benefit from exploring the link between curriculum implementation and professional development and gain new insights into how students learn. The vignette format allows readers to enjoy the book even if they only have a few free minutes to spare.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Harold Pratt, NSTA President 2001-2002
Part I - How Do Students Learn Science?
Chapter 1 - How Students Learn and How Teachers Teach
Angelo Collins
Chapter 2 - Applying the Science of Learning to the Education of
Prospective Science Teachers
Jose P. Mestre and Rodney R. Cocking
Part II - Designing Curriculum for Student Learning
Chapter 3 - Scientific Inquiry, Student Learning, and the Science Curriculum
Rodger W. Bybee
Chapter 4 - Supporting the Science-Literacy Connection
Jeanne Rose Century, Joseph Flynn, Doris Santamaria Makang, Marian Pasquale, Karen M. Robblee, Jeffrey Winokur, and Karen Worth
Chapter 5 - Reaching the Zone of Optimal Learning: The Alignment of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Stephen J. Farenga, Beverly A. Joyce, and Daniel Ness
Part III - Teaching That Enhances Student Learning
Chapter 6 - Alignment of Instruction with Knowledge of Student Learning
Paul Jablon
Chapter 7 - Learner-Centered Teaching
Jeffrey Weld
Chapter 8 - Using the Laboratory to Enhance Student Learning
Michael P. Clough
Part IV - Assessing Student Learning
Chapter 9 - Using Assessment to Help Students Learn
J. Myron Atkin
Chapter 10 - Assessing Student Learning
Anne M. Cox-Petersen and Joanne K. Olson
Part V - Professional Development and the Science of Learning
Chapter 11 - Curriculum Reform, Professional Development, and Powerful Learning
Janet Carlson Powell, James B. Short, and Nancy M. Landes
Chapter 12 - Professional Development and How Teachers Learn:
Developing Expert Science Teachers
Katherine E. Stiles and Susan Mundry