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NSTA District Professional Learning Packages
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NSTA District Professional Learning Packages NSTA Now Offers OpenSciEd Professional Learning!Is your district implementing OpenSciEd open-source instructional materials? NSTA is an official provider of OpenSciEd professional learning. Let us support your implementation efforts with professional learning that can be…
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All Learning Progression resources
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Faculty Learning Communities Facilitated the Rapid Pivot to Online Teaching and Learning
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Faculty learning communities (FLCs), established prepandemic to disseminate and discuss evidence-based teaching practices as part of an NSF-funded project, Investigating Student Success Using Evidence-Based Strategies-…
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Rethinking Online Science Learning
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Formative assessment has been shown to be a critical activity for promoting meaningful understanding in the classroom. Systematic engagement in formative assessment helps instructors to develop a clearer picture of…
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Responsive Teaching in Online Learning Environments
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Online teaching and learning have become widespread in higher education over the past two decades, and accelerated during the pandemic. Although online learning is expanding and has many benefits, instructors teaching…
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Faculty Learning at the Individual and Group Level
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Unaware of the diverse challenges faced by students, faculty can unintentionally create environments that discourage student persistence especially for students who are historically underrepresented in STEM. However,…
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Drawing to Learn to Draw Out Student Understanding
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Incorporating Student-Centered Learning in an Ecosystems Course
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Student-centered learning broadly encompasses teaching approaches that shift the focus of instruction from teacher to student by placing an emphasis on what as well as how students want to learn. This approach allows…
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Motivating Three-Dimensional Learning From Students’ Questions
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Aligning Undergraduate Science Curricula With Three-Dimensional Learning
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Recent science reform advocates for the inclusion of engineering design to teach science and represents a shift to so-called three-dimensional (3D) learning. This shift often requires science instructors to adapt their…
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Focusing the Lens of the Crosscutting Concepts on Secondary Science Learning
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Thriving STEM Learning Ecosystems—for All?
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Teaching and Learning About Global Climate Change Online
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Sessions of our laboratory-based physics course have been “meeting” synchronously online instead of on campus due to the pandemic. Shifting to remote instruction prompted us to create online versions of the course. In…
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High School Science and Engineering Fairs: Lessons Learned
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