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As a first-year science teacher in a rural area, the author faced numerous challenges. Fortunately, though, her school district offered an innovative teacher program designed especially for first-year teachers and those…
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Teacher Portfolios: Pathways to Teacher Empowerment
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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 (…
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GeoJourney is an interdisciplinary field trip in geology, Native American studies, and environmental studies designed for introductory-level undergraduates. The program travels 23,345 kilometers by van to national parks…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Flower Power
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Summer is here and flowers are in bloom! Each flowering plant produces a unique bloom that provides opportunities for students to make observations about plants. By comparing and contrasting flowers, students can…
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Whole-Class Inquiry Assessments
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Whole-class inquiry (WCI) assessments range from challenging, paper-and-pencil puzzles to lab-based problems that require students to apply their own gathered data to a new scenario; the latter might also require…
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In his article, Dale had constructed a tiered triangle to rank students’ ability to recall information that had been taught six weeks earlier (Dale 1969). Dale had found that only 5% of the knowledge gained through…
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This article describes an alternative way of testing--a performance assessment--that is different both in process and goals from typical tests, but closer to what teachers believe assessment should be. Teachers who have…
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This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue is Part 1 of two columns dealing with classroom management.
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Successful Mentoring of Undergraduate Researchers
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Prompted by the growing presence of undergraduates in research laboratories and the increased number of programs that encourage undergraduates to pursue research, the authors conducted a survey of undergraduate…
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Dissect Your Squid and Eat It Too!
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Studying an organism that lives in the ocean lends itself to many multidisciplinary studies, such as writing poetry about sea creatures, graphing fish harvests, and learning about cultures that depend heavily on the sea…
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Investigating Safely: A Guide for High School Teachers (e-Book)
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Just as high school science is more complex than it is at lower grade levels, so are the safety issues you face in your classes and labs. Reduce the risks to people and place with Investigating Safely, the third and…
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Issues in Science Education: Professional Development Leadership and the Diverse Learner (e-book)
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Make science teaching better for every student. Help learners from different backgrounds—and with different learning styles—by developing new skills, resources, and knowledge. This book discusses the ways in which…
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Issues in Science Education: Professional Development Planning and Design (e-book)
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There’s got to be more to professional development than in-service workshops. This thoughtful book paves the way to change. It shows the circumstances under which professional development has the most impact on student…
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Learning Science and the Science of Learning: Science Educators' Essay Collection (e-book)
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Sure, you teach science. But do your students really learn it? Students of all ages will absorb more if you adapt the way you teach to the way they learn. That's the message of this thoughtful collection of 12 essays by…
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Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership Between Science Educators and Their Students (e-book)
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Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership Between Science Educators and Their Students provides readers with an innovative alternative to routine lecturing. With the Lecture-Free Teaching method, teachers build “…
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