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STEM Teachers in Professional Learning Communities: From Good Teachers to Great Teaching  [ Report ]
  
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K. Fulton and T. Britton
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These two studies place a capstone on a decade of teacher effectiveness research. We now have compelling evidence that when teachers team up with their colleagues they are able to…
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Journal of College Science Teaching
Observable Features of Active Science Education Practices 
  
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K. Roseler, C. Paul, M. Felton, and C. Theisen, J. Coll. Sci. Teaching, 47 (6), 83 - 91 (2018).
Although research findings support elevated learning outcomes for students who engage in active science learning, faculty members are still resistant to using these practices. In…
https://doi.org/10.2505/4/jcst18_047_06_83
Mrs. Miller’s Evolution in Teaching Science as Inquiry  [ Thesis ]
  
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J. Lineback
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Calls for reform-based science instruction have highlighted inquiry as a critical component in science education (e.g. National Research Council [NRC], 1996, 2000, 2007). To date,…
https://as.tufts.edu/education/responsiveteachinginscience/suggested_rea...
Using changes in framing to account for differences in a teacher’s classroom behavior  [ Report ]
  
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J. Lineback and F. Goldberg
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In this paper we account for how a 5th grade teacher changes in how she attends and responds to student thinking in terms of differences in her framing of the instructional…
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Approaches to Cell Biology Teaching: Questions about Questions 
  
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D. Allen and K. Tanner, CBE Life. Sci. Educ., 1 (3), 63-67 (2002).
There are many questions to be asked about the pedagogical practice of questioning. Questions provide insight into what students at any age or grade level already know about a topic,…
https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.02-07-0021
American Journal of Physics
A graduate program for high school physics and physical science teachers 
  
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D. Hestenes, C. Megowan-Romanowicz, S. Osborn Popp, J. Jackson, and R. Culbertson, Am. J. Phys., 79 (9), 971-979 (2011).
The Modeling Instruction Program at Arizona State University has demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of a university-based graduate program dedicated to professional…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3602122
Journal of Research in Science Teaching
Why may students fail to learn from demonstrations? A social practice perspective on learning in physics 
  
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W. Roth, C. McRobbie, K. Lucas, and S. Boutonné, J. Res. Sci. Teaching, 34 (5), 509-533 (1998).
This study was designed to find out why students may fail to learn from teacher demonstrations. In the context of an interpretive study in an Australian senior-year high school…
https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1098-2736(199705)34:5<509::aid-tea6>3.0.co...
Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 
  
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At no time in history has improving science education been more important than it is today. Yet after 15 years of focused standards-based reform, improvements in U.S. science…
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Ready, Set, Science 
  
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S. Michaels, A. Shouse, and H. Schweingruber; Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
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This book is designed to acknowledge and support the work of teachers while explaining the implications of new knowledge for classroom practice. Ready, Set, Science! is an account of…
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Seamless Assessment in Science: A Guide for Elementary and Middle School Teachers  [ Book ]
  
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Seamless Assessment begins with two chapters describing the concept and the 5E model. The next three chapters provide concrete examples (with samples of student work) in life, Earth,…
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