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NSTA Professional Development Trip: Part II
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Turtle Data Collection (posted on behalf of Greg Neff) July 24 PM On a very rainy afternoon, we visited the town of Tortuguero, being sure to equip ourselves with rain gear and take in some of the culture of…
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NSTA Professional Development Trip to Costa Rica
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(Posted on behalf of Leisa Clark) July 24, 2012 We have arrived in Tortuguera! This is the view from one of our rooms. We are off to hear a lecture on sea turtles because tonight we will be assisting with sea…
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From NSTA Bloggers Peggy Ashbrook and Mary Bigelow: Whether we had met her personally or not, the death of astronaut, physicist, and educator Dr. Sally Ride deeply saddened us. Dr. Meg Urry speaks for many women in…
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Students as part of school leadership for promoting reforms in science
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–Occasional commentary by Robert E. Yager (NSTA President, 1982-1983) Connecting Learning Assures Successful Students (CLASS) is a Professional Development (PD) effort for teachers operating throughout Indiana and…
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It is interesting teaching at the college level – the common phrase of “put your cell phones away during class” is still heard regularly. I actually have one colleague who will confiscate the cell…
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Beginning the school year with goals
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Photo by her students. Early in the month of August, pre-kindergarten teacher Gail Laubenthal begins planning for the young children who will soon be entering her classroom. As a guest blogger she is sharing her…
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My colleagues and I have noticed many students entering middle school have had few experiences with science investigations. We’re considering doing a summer session before school starts to engage students in science and…
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Table of Contents I wonder what in the year 1912 would have been considered “20th century skills”? Many of the industrial-age skills and jobs of that era are non-existent now. It’s sobering to think that the hottest…
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Summer is a time when many families visit a beach. How do you help your students build on what they learned through their summer beach experiences when they return to school? Maybe our colleagues whose schools are…
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Features of STEM education envisioned for needed reforms
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–Occasional commentary by Robert E. Yager (NSTA President, 1982-1983) In December 2011 the National Governors Association (NGA) released a forty-four page report for use in shaping science education reforms across…
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Teaching the big ideas of science
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Table of Contents My introduction to teaching and learning with “big ideas” was as an undergraduate in the required US History course. Rather than presenting history as a laundry list of factoids (names, dates,…
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My principal encourages all teachers to have students do class presentations during the year. I like the idea, but the thought of listening to 150 “oral reports” on a chemistry topic is mind-boggling, not to mention…
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Beginning the year with a plan to support science talk
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Calling on experienced teachers—what do you advise new teachers to do to establish routines that support discussion, especially discussion where children share their ideas and evidence for those ideas? Discussion can…
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Have you been to a meeting or conference presentation and seen people typing or texting? I often wondered: Are they taking notes? Checking email? Making dinner plans? Playing a game? I found this a little disconcerting…
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You say derecho, I say “what?”
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Like many other residents of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states, I learned a new weather term this week: derecho. After scrambling to the dictionary and Wikipedia, I learned that the word is pronounced deh-RAY-cho and…
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