Ambitious science teaching
A vision of ambitious science teaching -- Planning for engagement with big science ideas -- Core practice set #1 -- Talk as a tool for learning -- Productive discourse, Part 1 -- Encouraging more students to participate in talk -- Productive discourse, Part 2 -- Eliciting students' ideas -- Core practice set #2 -- Making thinking visible through models -- Modeling, part 1 -- Allowing students to show what they know -- Modeling, part 2 -- Supporting ongoing changes in thinking: Introducing new ideas -- Core practice set #3 -- Supporting ongoing changes in thinking: Activity and sense making -- Core practice set #3 -- Supporting ongoing changes in thinking: Collective thinking -- Core practice set #3 -- Making and justifying claims in a science community -- Scientific argument -- Drawing together evidence-based explanations -- Organizing with colleagues to improve teaching -- Can we be ambitious every day? -- A Coherence between AST and professional standards for practice -- Reminding ourselves of the bigger picture of instruction -- Taxonomy of tools -- How to help students understand the "What-how-why" levels of explanation -- Rapid survey of student thinking (RSST) tool -- Supports for students in making sense of experimental design and purpose -- Supporting explanation writing.
Windschitl, Mark, author.
Thompson, Jessica Jane, author.
Braaten, Melissa L., author.
Mark Windschitl, Jessica Thompson, and Melissa Braaten.