Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists

Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists
Author: Jeffrey W. Bloom
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 852
Release: 2006-07-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135437270

Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists helps teachers - both pre-service and in-service - to develop exciting science programs in their classrooms. This book provides the groundwork for designing and implementing a science program that takes into account the latest research in teaching and learning. It provides an approach that will capture children's imaginations, stimulate their curiosity and create a strong foundation for their continued interest in, and appreciation of, science and the world in which they live. The book is designed to be user-friendly, and offers an approach to teaching science that is exciting for teachers as well. This thoroughly revised, second edition focuses on making inquiry more explicit both in terms of the process of inquiry and teaching in ways that capitalize on children's curiosity and questions. New material has also been added on U.S. and Canadian science standards, as well as professional standards for teachers.

Bringing Communities Together

Bringing Communities Together
Author: Bev France
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789460917899

Over recent years connective partnerships between educational communities and sectors outside of education have become increasingly popular. One significant reason behind this popularity has the expansion of information and communication technologies which have increased access and provided mechanisms for ongoing connections to be made between differing worlds. But... successful connections that cross cultural boundaries are not easy to establish and even harder to maintain in ways that are mutually beneficial. This book focuses on science and technology connective ventures and the complexity inherent in bringing such worlds together. . The authors have been 'in the business' of developing such connections and this book brings them together to describe how and why making connections can support the science/technology education sector, the technology/science communities, and the wider sociocultural life we all inhabit. A range of illustrative examples of connections-in-action provide an empirical basis from which to explore and gain insight into the issues for and potential of such connective ventures, alongside a rich mix of critical commentary, arguments, cautions and challenges. Five key principles have been distilled from the collective experience and wisdom of the authors, serving to capture that which underpins effective and efficient connective initiatives. Each principle is accompanied by a set of questions that reflect the issues raised and successes illustrated throughout the book. It is hoped these principles and questions will serve to guide people interested in developing, funding and/or participating in future connective initiatives in the fields of science and technology.

Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists

Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists
Author: Jeffrey W. Bloom
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2006-07-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135437203

Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists helps teachers - both pre-service and in-service - to develop exciting science programs in their classrooms. This book provides the groundwork for designing and implementing a science program that takes into account the latest research in teaching and learning. It provides an approach that will capture children's imaginations, stimulate their curiosity and create a strong foundation for their continued interest in, and appreciation of, science and the world in which they live. The book is designed to be user-friendly, and offers an approach to teaching science that is exciting for teachers as well. This thoroughly revised, second edition focuses on making inquiry more explicit both in terms of the process of inquiry and teaching in ways that capitalize on children's curiosity and questions. New material has also been added on U.S. and Canadian science standards, as well as professional standards for teachers.

Whole-class Inquiry

Whole-class Inquiry
Author: Dennis W. Smithenry
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1933531347

In response to requests from science education professionals, this is the perfect vehicle for implementing and assessing this concept of whole-class inquiry in your classroom. This is a must-have package for preservice and inservice middle and high school science teachers.

Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities

Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities
Author: Randy Yerrick
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780805844344

This book is devoted to examining the complexities of establishing scientific learning communities in classrooms. It highlights the central issues as they relate to an emerging body of cognitive, ethnographic, and sociocultural research knowledge.

Science Adventures in Team Building

Science Adventures in Team Building
Author: Bonnie J. Krueger
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0787719420

Promote community in the classroom with this collection of simple class-participation games and exercises based on science topics. Students will hunt for food groups, use their senses, discover new planets, and more! The activities challenge students by combining student interaction with problem solving. They can be completed in a short amount of time or expanded through multiple rounds, making it easy to incorporate them into your day-to-day lesson plans.

Community Connections for Science Education

Community Connections for Science Education
Author: William C. Robertson
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0873551915

This book was developed by the National Science Teachers Association and the National Park Foundation. Resources are all around us not only in traditional science classrooms and laboratories, but also in gardens, nature centers, parks, youth programs, museums, and on television and radio. This offers advice on how to select community resource partners.

Secrets to Success for Science Teachers

Secrets to Success for Science Teachers
Author: Ellen Kottler
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452213216

Provides teachers with practical ideas and strategies for promoting inquiry, building literacy, implementing technology, and achieving meaningful instruction in the science classroom.

Growing and Sustaining Student-Centered Science Classrooms

Growing and Sustaining Student-Centered Science Classrooms
Author: David Stroupe
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2023-03-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 168253796X

A wealth of practical tools and guidance for rooting out injustice and creating science learning spaces in which students feel valued, safe, and eager to engage. In Growing and Sustaining Student-Centered Science Classrooms, David Stroupe promotes powerful conversation and action around knowledge-building practices in science education. The book takes readers into inspiring classroom communities in which all students are invited and encouraged to engage in the work of science. An illuminating series of real-time classroom scenes demonstrate flexible teaching approaches and instructional pivots that Stroupe calls talk moves and shows how they foster inclusive collaboration and participation to create a more expansive, and better, version of science education. Even as Stroupe champions student-centered science education, he acknowledges that common obstructions to knowledge sharing, or epistemic injustices, can often prevent this student-led ideal from materializing. He calls attention to four types of injustices that frequently stifle student voice and access in science learning communities: testimonial injustice, hermeneutical injustice, intrapersonal injustice, and hierarchical injustice. Recounting real-life examples of these individual and systemic injustices, Stroupe gives educators the tools to both identify and eradicate them. This thought-provoking book sets forth ambitious tactics for educators to audit assumptions and biases in science, promote student agency, and conduct action research to document change. Using Stroupe's accessible methods, teachers, teacher educators, and administrators can design immediate and long-term instructional practices to disrupt injustices in STEM classroom communities and support student learning.

Professional Learning Communities for Science Teaching

Professional Learning Communities for Science Teaching
Author: Susan Mundry
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1935155008

What would it take to move your school closer toward a culture that supports and sustains professional learning communities (PLCs)? This thought-provoking collection of stories will inspire you to find answers to this question and others. It begins with the argument that in a PLC environment, teachers receive continuous professional development. Later chapters recount the origins of schools as professional learning communities, define the characteristics of professional learning communities, and review research on the subject.