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Building Leadership Teams to Create Professional Learning Communities in Secondary Schools
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This chapter proposes one way to foster teamwork and develop a professional learning community at the secondary level by describing the development of a leadership team focused on improving science teaching and learning…
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Essential Partnerships in the Reform of Secondary Science
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Alice’s travel through Wonderland resembles our journeys with reform. We often encounter new experiences. We learn from events. Some tasks are harder to complete than they initially appear. Moreover, we tend to…
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Using Data to Reform Science Instruction
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This chapter will introduce you to skills and strategies used to examine classroom assessment data to improve science instruction. Although the authors advocate using multiple forms of student work to inform instruction…
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Appropriate Practice for Linguistically Diverse Science Learners
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The population of the United States continues to become increasingly diverse, both culturally and linguistically. In less than two decades, one half of the students in the United States will be non-white and Latino,…
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One Teacher’s Journey Toward Reformed Teaching
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Reform requires us to rethink our teaching, to view teaching through different eyes. Such change requires professional development experiences that are long term and sustained. The experiences must challenge teachers to…
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The Relationship Between Teaching and Learning
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This chapter introduces a summary of research about learning and discusses the implications for teaching. The characteristics of professional development are described that can help transform teaching beliefs and…
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How to Use Collaborative Learning in Your Classroom
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Educators have been conducting research about the relative effects of cooperative, competitive, and individual learning for several decades. The research shows that collaborative learning experiences tend to promote…
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How to Use Science Notebooks in Your Classroom
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Science notebooks can take many different forms. The important thing to remember is that they should provide a place where student experiences, data, and language can come together to form meaning. This can happen when…
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How to Help Students Make Meaning From What They Read
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Students need opportunities to develop "reading to learn" strategies. Although many students may have the ability to read text, some lack the ability to comprehend and react to it. The strategies provided in this…
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How to Help Your Students Evaluate Information
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Every day, we are bombarded with information on many issues from a wide variety of sources. Today's students are especially adept at accessing information through the internet. They likely are much less adept at…
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How to Help Students Construct Their Understanding of Science Concepts
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Conscientious biology teachers continually strive to improve their instructional practices to enhance student learning. At the heart of this goal is a focus on making sure that students understand the biology being…
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How to Promote Scientific Conversations Among Your Students
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Helping students develop skills for scientific conversation has many benefits. Engaging in scientific conversation elicits students' prior knowledge, enables students to construct their understanding of science concepts…
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How to Use Assessments to Improve Student Learning
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The ability of students to “do” biology and to understand biology concepts is essential. Developing biology lessons and assessing for an understanding of biology skills and concepts go hand-in-hand. Well-designed…
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How to Select Programs for Your Inquiry Classroom
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Besides teachers and students, the most consistent presence in school science is the instructional materials. BSCS, in collaboration with the K-12 Alliance of WestEd, developed a process and set of tools to help teams…
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BSCS's Influence in Biology Education
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This chapter describes the dominating concerns in science education over the past 50 years. It also discusses the way BSCS has addressed those concerns through curriculum and professional development and through…
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