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Teacher Portfolios: Pathways to Teacher Empowerment

The process of creating teaching portfolios refines an individual’s professional and personal goals. Portfolios document teaching strengths and competencies, and clarify future goals and objectives for the educator (Hurst, Wilson, and Creamer, 1998...

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The Resourceful Teacher

As teachers, we are given quite a list of duties to fulfill. It is tempting to take the easy way and plan your lessons for next week during your planning period. However, to be a truly dynamic teacher you must do more. In science, dynamic teachers ha...

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Libros de Ciencias en Español (2001)

From well-designed board books that introduce preschoolers to animals and their young to lighthearted explanations of survival and extinction, from a poetic narrative about the sense of smell to a humorous introduction to the conveniences of cyberspa...

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Science at SEA

The Doherty Experience at SEA (Sea Education Association) is a three-week program that involves two sessions of preparatory classes ashore in nautical science and oceanography and concludes with a nine-day sea voyage. While at sea, the teachers are d...

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Commentary: Teacher-Partners

An opinion piece about how Detroit teachers discovered that partnering with volunteer engineers from business and industry helped maximize student learning....

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Big Picture Science: Uncovering teaching strategies for underrepresented groups

Some experts suggest that people who are underrepresented in science often have difficulty expressing their ideas and participating in classrooms where traditional methods of instruction are used because they may feel uncomfortable with the limited r...

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Commentary: Defining Multicultural Science Education

An opinion piece about a multicultural science classroom and how we provide science education for all students....

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The Fin Art of Science: Japanese fish printing brings interdisciplinary science and culture to the classroom

Gyotaku—The Japanese art of fish printing—evolved in Japan more than one hundred years ago as a means for fishermen to record and document the size of their catches. Today, fish printing provides an excellent classroom activity to introduce the t...

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Forces at Work: The Top 5 Reasons for Belonging to a Professional Organization

Although we all interact within our classrooms and with our students all of the time, we also need the dynamic of peer interaction. This article describes the benefits of participating in a professional organization for science teachers, whether it b...

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Reflections on a Journey

As educators, we must be willing to reinvent our worlds as we learn new things; to re-examine our conceptions as we encounter new views; and to re-evaluate our own subjective interactions with the new material. As part of a pilot Earthwatch-Conservat...

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Keeping the Joy in Teaching

“If I ever get as burnt out as Mr. Jones down the hall,” commented a teacher I admire to a group of us novices, someone please tell me, and I will get out of teaching.” To avoid faring like “Mr. Jones,” read the following ideas to maintain ...

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C Is for Change

The Seven Cs strategy described in this article is a small but very practical start to addressing the needs of students. The practices are divided into seven categories: community, curriculum, constructivist connections, confidence, competence, compu...