Ambitious science teaching / Mark Windschitl, Jessica Thompson, and Melissa Braaten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Windschitl, Mark, author.

Thompson, Jessica Jane, author.

Braaten, Melissa L., author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Study and teaching--United States.

Science.

Action research in education.

Teaching--Methodology.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2018]

Contents:

One A vision of ambitious science teaching

Two Planning for engagement with big science ideas

Core practice set #1

Three Talk as a tool for learning

Productive discourse, Part 1

Four Encouraging more students to participate in talk

Productive discourse, Part 2

Five Eliciting students' ideas

Core practice set #2

Six Making thinking visible through models

Modeling, part 1

Seven Allowing students to show what they know

Modeling, part 2

Eight Supporting ongoing changes in thinking: Introducing new ideas

Core practice set #3

Nine Supporting ongoing changes in thinking: Activity and sense making

Ten Supporting ongoing changes in thinking: Collective thinking

Eleven Making and justifying claims in a science community

Scientific argument

Twelve Drawing together evidence-based explanations

Core practice set #4

Thirteen Organizing with colleagues to improve teaching

Fourteen Can we be ambitious every day?

Appendix A Coherence between AST and professional standards for practice

Appendix B Reminding ourselves of the bigger picture of instruction

Appendix C Taxonomy of tools

Appendix D How to help students understand the "What-how-why" levels of explanation

Appendix E Rapid survey of student thinking (RSST) tool

Appendix F Supports for students in making sense of experimental design and purpose

Appendix G Supporting explanation writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781682531662 (electronic bk.)

168253166X (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

90104279453

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.