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Modeling: Naturally Selecting an Effective Teaching Method
This chapter examines middle school level curriculum for evolution which incorporates many aspects of the More Emphasis conditions from the National Science Education Standards (NSES). Taking into account that in order to teach evolution successfully...
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Teaching English Through Science and Science Through English
What better way to learn English than through the study of science, and what better way to learn about science than experiencing it through language and literacy in and out of the classroom. Sutman, Allen, and Shoemaker (1986) observed in Learning E...
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Perspectives on Teaching and Integrating English as a Second Language and Science
In the chapter, the authors briefly review the evolution of ESL instruction and science education. They discuss current promising practices that integrate ESL, literacy, and science. Finally, they highlight innovative programs in schools that offer i...
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Learners, Programs, and Teaching Practices
The changing demographics of the United States and recent focus on educational standards have made it increasingly critical to address the needs of the many linguistically and culturally diverse students in our schools. Schools throughout the United ...
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Planning Science and English Instruction: One Teacher's Experience
The authors of this chapter describe how to incorporate science, language arts, and ESL standards into the classroom. They offer practical suggestions on how to plan, organize, and implement activities based upon standards, teaching and learning stra...
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Strategies for Teaching Science to English Learners
Teachers who teach science play a key role with English language learners (ELLs). In this chapter, the authors discuss strategies teachers can use to help English language learners learn science while improving their speaking, listening, reading, an...
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Strategies for Assessing Science and Language Learning
In this chapter, the authors give an overview of principles for assessing language learners in science. They describe how to plan assessment, how to use it in the classroom, and how to provide feedback and improve learning, ...
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Science Beyond Classroom Walls: Fairs, Family Nights, Museums, and the Internet
A field trip is only one example of how valuable connections between formal and informal education settings are for the teaching and learning of science. In this chapter, the authors provide ideas on expanding learning beyond the classroom. They desc...
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Designing Lessons: Inquiry Approach to Science Using the SIOP Model
Using the Sheltered Instructional Operation Protocol (SIOP) Model, the authors in this chapter discuss science inquiry, the SIOP Model, and how to blend the two for good science instruction. They finish the chapter with a conversation between a scien...
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Lessons That Work: Science Lessons for English Learners
In this chapter, the authors present formats for science lesson plans that incorporate inquiry and language and science objectives. Teachers from elementary, middle, and secondary levels describe successful lessons and discuss the benefits of these l...
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Standards for Science and English Language Proficiency
In this chapter, the authors describe the development of the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and English language proficiency standards. They then discuss new language proficiency standards that integrate science and other content area st...
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The Impact of Technology on the 21st Century Classroom
This chapter explores how educational technology has changed and will continue to change the ways that teachers teach and students learn in classrooms of the 21st century. The chapter begins with a description of how students can learn from computers...
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Leadership in Science Education for the 21st Century
In the early decades of the 21st century, science educators face some problems unique to the times and some common to all eras. Some of the issues will be with us for the relative brief time of political administrations, and some trends have a longer...
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The Principal as Leader of Change
As long as the job of principal remains as complex and undoable as it is currently, and as long as either teaching faculties or local school boards pressure an innovative principal until that principal chooses to leave, true innovation will be an uph...
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Keeping Good Science Teachers: What Science Leaders Can Do
Only when teachers have had the kind of training and experience that makes them successful with students can schools become and remain effective. Creating the conditions to retain strong teachers preserves this essential human capital; hiring, traini...