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How will you implement your professional development learning this year?
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Professional development strengthens teaching skills and introduces the latest research about learning. For early childhood teachers professional development can range from first aid to interactive reading to…
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Improving Elementary Science Programs Through Professional Learning Communities
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“I’m not good at science.” It’s a declaration that far too many students have made in classrooms. Their beliefs are often based on lack of exposure to science, not their true potential to do science. So how do we change…
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Developing and Implementing a Campus-Wide Professional Development Program: Successes and Challenges
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Gateways-ND is a 5-year, National Science Foundation–funded effort directed toward three goals: maximizing the instructional effectiveness of postsecondary STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)…
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Using Connected Learning Principles to Foster Authentic STEM Research Experiences Remotely
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A Flipped Classroom Approach and Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Molecular Biology Course
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Teaching modalities such as Flipped Classroom Approach (FCA) are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. FCA requires that instructional content is completed outside the classroom, thus allowing active-…
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Teacher-Learning, Meaning-Making, and Integrating ISE Practices in Diverse Urban Classrooms
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Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching and Learning Science
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To inform teacher education programs, it is imperative to uncover preservice teachers’ (PSTs) implicit and tacit beliefs about teaching and learning science. The study of teachers’ beliefs requires a range of…
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Building a New Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Partnership Through Virtual Connections
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This article presents a synopsis of an interdisciplinary literacy-science, cross-country, fully remote service-learning (S-L) project prompted by and executed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article…
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From Birding to Robotics: Integrating STEM Learning Through Community Collaboration
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40 Years of Inspiring Students to Explore STEM: What Has Science Olympiad Learned?
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STEM Teaching Tools: Guidance for Justice-Centered Climate Change Teaching and Learning
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Teaching Assistant Responses to COVID-19
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Undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are tasked with instructing undergraduate courses with little to no professional development (PD). To better develop PD opportunities, it is important to understand…
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What The 2020–21 School Year Taught Us About Science Teaching and Learning
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STEM Teaching Tools: Professional Learning Resources for K-12 Science Education
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The STEM Teaching Tools website (http://stemteachingtools.org/) includes free learning resources for teachers to help them implement the NGSS / NRC Framework vision. Co-written by teachers and researchers, these short,…
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Answers to Your Questions About NSTA's District Professional Learning Packages
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Professional development at the district level is now available for science educators from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). Based on new research about the ways students best learn science and how…