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Teachers Supporting Teachers in Learning
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Diantha Lay is principal of an elementary school in Montgomery County, Maryland. When she wrote this chapter, she was just starting a new position for the county as a staff development teacher. Earlier she had been a…
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TEAM Connections: Four Teachers’ Journeys Into Action Research
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Judy Fix, Norma Fletcher, Dianne Johnson, and Janet Siulc—a group of teachers in the Buffalo Public School District—wondered what they could do that would go beyond talk and speculation about their teaching practices.…
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Learning About Motion: Fun for All
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Deborah Roberts is a fifth-grade teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. At the time she wrote this chapter, she was a middle-school science teacher in a high-poverty suburban school in Maryland. An earlier version of this paper…
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Reflections on Fostering Teacher Inquiries Into Science Learning and Teaching
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Emily van Zee is an associate professor of science education at Oregon State University and co-organizer of Teacher Researcher Day at National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) national conferences. She has been a…
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Reading, Writing, Comprehension, and Confidence—Achieved in Science Contexts
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When Elizabeth Kline wrote this, she was a fifth-grade teacher in Prince George’s County, Maryland. A desire to integrate scientific concepts in a curriculum dominated by reading, writing, and mathematics motivated her…
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Fourth-Grade Scientists Investigate Electric Circuits
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Trisha Kagey Boswell is a third-grade teacher at an elementary school in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she has taught for eight years. Her school is an art-integrated magnet school. When she wrote this chapter, she…
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Monica Hartman, Assistant Director for Science in St. Clair County, Michigan, conducted this research while she was the learning specialist in a small suburban district just outside a large Midwestern city. While…
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Ellen Franz is a teacher at an elementary school in the Sausalito Marin City School District, a small district just north of San Francisco. When she wrote this poem, she was teaching primary grades in a midsized urban…
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When students Don’t Talk: Searching for Reasons
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Mary Bell has taught for 23 years in a large suburban school district near Washington, DC. As an elementary special education and Reading Recovery teacher, she cotaught reading, science, and math as part of an inclusion…
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Evolving Ethical Perspectives in an Eighth-Grade Science Classroom
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Matthew Ronfeldt’s dissertation as a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Teacher Education at Stanford University is a crossprofessional study of how professional education supports novice teachers and clinical…
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Student Teaching as Collaboration
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For teachers who are trying to understand what their students think and how they feel, data can include notes found on the floor after class, the letters they as teachers write to their students, and the e-mails they…
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Collaborative Conversations and Intentional Reflections on Teaching and Learning Physics
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Dorothy Simpson taught mathematics for 15 years before she started teaching physics at Mercer Island High School near Seattle. Now retired, she is serving as a volunteer at a local elementary school with special…
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In some ways, the laboratory safety standards may seem at odds with science laboratory curriculum expectations in an environment attempting to provide for full inclusion of all students. Clearly, not all students will…
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Introduction To Safety In Science
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This sample chapter provides an overview of general safety practices for the classroom. Topics discussed are Making Adjustments for Mobility- Impaired Students, Laboratory Safety: Welcome Aboard!, Yes, You Need a…
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Introduction to Safety in Science
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This sample chapter provides an overview of general safety practices for the classroom. Topics discussed are Making Adjustments for Mobility- Impaired Students, Laboratory Safety: Welcome Aboard!, Good-Bye MSDS, Hello…
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