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Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms: Module 4: Assessing Student Notebooks
Professional Learning Course Module |
In this module, you will experience ways to use science notebooks for formative assessment. You will gain a deeper understanding of the disadvantages of grading notebook entries. You will have an opportunity to apply…
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Science Notebooks in Student Centered Classrooms: Capstone
Professional Learning Course Module |
Course Goals Build an understanding of how sensemaking is supported by the use of science notebooks by exploring the purposes and features of science notebooks; the organizational continuum of teacher-…
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Journal Article |
The field of environmental communication focuses on how multidisciplinary science, natural resource management, and environmental policy are communicated to different audiences. This activity uses the "jigsaw" approach…
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Professional Learning Community
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Articles and journals that explain how to create and maintain professional learning communities.
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Blog Post |
For a project I’m working on, I wanted to revisit what I know about cooperative learning. When I Googled the topic, among the many resources I found was one from a professional development series Concept to…
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Web Seminar |
Learn about professional learning for teachers’ enacting OpenSciEd middle school science curriculum. Although curriculum materials are essential for three-dimensional learning, they need to be a part of a larger…
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Faculty Learning Communities Facilitated the Rapid Pivot to Online Teaching and Learning
Journal Article |
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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Journal Article |
Developing science process skills and participating in inquiry-based activities help students gain the foundation for job skills outside of school. Overall, this workshop was highly successful, and in-service teachers…
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Learning to Teach with Science Representations
Journal Article |
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Social Emotional Learning and STEM
Journal Article |
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Journal Article |
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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Professional Learning Communities and You!
Blog Post |
The question for this issue of the Leaders Letter focused around professional learning communities people are involved in as well as the benefits that each person has received. In Professional Learning Communities for…