High-School Biology Today and Tomorrow

High-School Biology Today and Tomorrow
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies
Total Pages: 361
Release: 1989-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309040280
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Biology is where many of science's most exciting and relevant advances are taking place. Yet, many students leave school without having learned basic biology principles, and few are excited enough to continue in the sciences. Why is biology education failing? How can reform be accomplished? This book presents information and expert views from curriculum developers, teachers, and others, offering suggestions about major issues in biology education: what should we teach in biology and how should it be taught? How can we measure results? How should teachers be educated and certified? What obstacles are blocking reform?

Teaching Biology in Schools

Teaching Biology in Schools
Author: Kostas Kampourakis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351615211
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An indispensable tool for biology teacher educators, researchers, graduate students, and practising teachers, this book presents up-to-date research, addresses common misconceptions, and discusses the pedagogical content knowledge necessary for effective teaching of key topics in biology. Chapters cover core subjects such as molecular biology, genetics, ecology, and biotechnology, and tackle broader issues that cut across topics, such as learning environments, worldviews, and the nature of scientific inquiry and explanation. Written by leading experts on their respective topics from a range of countries across the world, this international book transcends national curricula and highlights global issues, problems, and trends in biology literacy.

Scientific Teaching

Scientific Teaching
Author: Jo Handelsman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781429201889
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Seasoned classroom veterans, pre-tenured faculty, and neophyte teaching assistants alike will find this book invaluable. HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and her colleagues at the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching (WPST) have distilled key findings from education, learning, and cognitive psychology and translated them into six chapters of digestible research points and practical classroom examples. The recommendations have been tried and tested in the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology and through the WPST. Scientific Teaching is not a prescription for better teaching. Rather, it encourages the reader to approach teaching in a way that captures the spirit and rigor of scientific research and to contribute to transforming how students learn science.

Sacred Bovines

Sacred Bovines
Author: Douglas Allchin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0190490365
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This book is a collection of short essays, each challenging a commonplace assumption about biology - playfully dubbed "Sacred Bovines."

"Multiplication is for White People"

Author: Lisa Delpit
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1595580468
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Delpit explores a wide range of little-known research that conclusively demonstrates there is no achievement gap at birth and argues that poor teaching, negative stereotypes about African American intellectual inferiority, and a curriculum that still does not adequately connect to poor children's lives all conspire against the education prospects of poor children of color.