Methods and Strategies: Collaborating for Success

Journal Article | January 2014

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month’s issue a schoolwide science museum highlights science practices with help from community partners.

Collaboratively Examining Student Work

Journal Article | January 2004

How do we get our students to meet science standards? What is impossible working alone is made possible by collaborating with colleagues. Through the Schools Around the World (SAW) program, teachers have the opportunity…

Editor's Corner: Community Collaboration

Journal Article | March 2006

Science activities that take students outside the school walls can combine the best aspects of service to the community, problem-based learning, and lessons in good citizenship. Over the past half-decade, The Science…

Commentary: The T&E in STEM: A Collaborative Effort

Journal Article | September 2018

An opinion piece about collaboration among science and technology and engineering (T&E) educators to teach rigorous, hands-on engineering content and practices.

Scientists' and Teachers' Perspectives About Collaboration

Journal Article | October 2013

The authors recently completed a six-year regional project that used several approaches to develop scientist-teacher relationships. At the conclusion 38 scientists and teachers were brought together to reflect on their…

Scope on Safety: Safety Requires Collaboration

Journal Article | March 2014

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue covers teachers receiving multidisciplinary safety training.

A Case of Reform: The Undergraduate Research Collaboratives

Journal Article | April 2012

In this report the authors include brief descriptions of five undergraduate research collaboratives and discuss their common components and the variety of implementation strategies. They also examine the impacts of…

Tech Trek: The collaborative works of wikis

Journal Article | February 2008

Wikipedia is part of a new generation of public documents—collectively known as wikis—to which many different writers may make contributions. Due to the collaborative nature of wikis, controversy flares up from time to…

Is Collaborative Grouping an Effective Instructional Strategy?

Journal Article | April 2007

While problem solving is a generally accepted goal of most science courses, it has previously been difficult to determine the extent to which students’ problem-solving abilities are impacted by these courses.…