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Teacher Spotlight: Steve Metz

High School Pre-service Teachers Careers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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What to Expect With Group Work

Instructors who wish to take advantage of the benefits of collaborative group work often hesitate over concerns about conflict or problems that arise between students. There are no estimates of the level of conflict that can be expected even if best ...

By Peggy Brickman, Austin Lannen, and Jill Beyette

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Biology Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Implementing Peer-Led Team Learning and Cyber Peer-Led Team Learning in an Organic Chemistry Course

Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) is a small-group, collaborative problem-solving model that has significantly increased student performance in a variety of chemistry undergraduate courses and other STEM courses. Cyber Peer-Led Team Learning (cPLTL), an ...

By Sarah Beth Wilson and Pratibha Varma-Nelson

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Chemistry Inclusion Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Assessing Preservice Teachers’ Experience With Wind Energy Education Through a Cooperative Learning Experience

The purpose of this study was to investigate knowledge and attitudes of preservice teachers toward wind energy education. The participants for this study were preservice teachers enrolled in a science methods for teachers course. The preservice teach...

By Mamta Singh

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Assessment Earth & Space Science Interdisciplinary Preservice Science Education

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Improving Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Engineering Teaching Efficacy Beliefs With 3D Design and Printing

The Framework for K–12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) under-score the importance of including engineering design process (EDP) within the science curriculum. The Framework and the NGSS raised engineering design t...

By Erdogan Kaya, Anna Newley, Ezgi Yesilyurt and Hasan Deniz

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Engineering NGSS Pedagogy Preservice Science Education Research

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Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers

National science education documents emphasize new learning outcomes of elementary students; therefore, the preparation of elementary teachers should be revised to meet these challenges. This article describes how science educators at a large southea...

By Tammy D. Lee and Bonnie Glass

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers New Science Teachers Pedagogy Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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KSU-NSTA Student Chapter Succeeds by Embracing Change

By Debra Shapiro

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers General Science Instructional Materials News Preservice Science Education STEM Teacher Preparation

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Engaging Children With Authentic STEAM Learning Experiences Through Design-Based Approaches

By Anne Marie Morrin and Maeve Liston

Informal Education Pre-service Teachers Interdisciplinary Preservice Science Education STEM Teaching Strategies

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Archive: Back to School with NSTA, NSELA, and CS3, August 20, 2020

The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA), the National Science Education Leadership Association, and the Council of State Science Supervisors have created a series of one-pagers that focuses on quality teaching and learning in science and pro...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science

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Starting to Teach During the Pandemic

By Debra Shapiro

Middle School High School Pre-service Teachers General Science Instructional Materials New Science Teachers News Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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K–12 DREAMS to Teach Program at Morehouse College

This study explores the pathways to K–12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics instruction among Black/African American males in the Discovery Research Education for African American Men in STEM to Teach (DREAMS to Teach) program at Mo...

By Cynthia Trawick, Thema Monroe-White, Jigsa A. Tola, Jamie P. Clayton, and J. K. Haynes

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Advocacy STEM Teacher Preparation