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Use of a Student-Ally in Emergency Remote Teaching
This manuscript reviews This manuscript reviews the peculiarities of emergency remote teaching (ERT) –in the context of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic – compared to in-person and traditional online teaching. A literature review precedes an...
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Journal Article
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a series of emergency transitions to online learning for academic institutions around the world. Previous studies have shown that undergraduate Learning Assistants (LAs) improve student engagement in classroom activities ...
By Kathleen Hefferon and Esther Angert
Journal Article
Improving Writing Skills Through Scripting a Science Podcast for Non-Expert Audiences
In this article, we describe and analyze the experience of undergraduate chemistry students who scripted episodes of a science podcast for non-expert audiences. This practice aimed to improve public communication of science and technology, often supp...
By Carolina Sotério and Salete Linhares Queiroz
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, July 11, 2023
By Debra Shapiro
NSTA Press Book
Leadership by and for Science Teachers
Imagine having the opportunity to hear from 21 colleagues about their personal leadership journeys—and to get their advice. Leadership by and for Science Teachers is just such an opportunity. Author Rodger Bybee provides the insights and inspiratio...
By Rodger Bybee
Journal Article
Teacher Responsiveness as a Core Feature of Justice- and Equity-Centered Instruction
By Hosun Kang and Lindsay Fay
Journal Article
Using Growth Rings on Wooden Blocks and Plywood to Enhance Students’ Spatial Reasoning Skills
Spatial reasoning is one of the most challenging skills to master in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This article reports the results of a teaching intervention that involved using wooden blocks to enhance the dev...
By Jeff B. Chaumba and Josphine Chaumba
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 25, 2023
By Debra Shapiro
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, March 28, 2023
By Debra Shapiro
NSTA Press Book
Activating Students' Ideas: Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence, K-5
Science teachers face an incredible challenging task of combining research on how students learn best, the three-dimensions of the Science Education Frameworks that in themselves are complicated to understand, and instructional sequences that lead to...
By Patrick Brown, Page Keeley
Journal Article
Teaching Assistant Responses to COVID-19
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 the benefits of improving TAs�...
By Cody Smith, Deepika Menon, Annette Wierzbicki, and Jenny Dauer