Science Teaching Essentials

• Author : Cynthia J. Brame
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2019-02-06
• ISBN : 9780128147030

Science Teaching Essentials: Short Guides to Good Practice serves as a reference manual for science faculty as they set up a new course, consider how to teach the course, figure out how to assess their students fairly and efficiently, and review and revise course materials. This book consists of a series of short chapters that instructors can use as resources to address common teaching problems and adopt evidence-based pedagogies. By providing individual chapters that can be used independently as needed,

• Author : Xiufeng Liu
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release Date : 2010
• ISBN : 9781412961011

Grounded in the constructivist inquiry approach to science teaching and learning, Essentials of Science Classroom Assessment bridges science assessment research and practice, and connects science assessment and learning. This book will help students in science methods courses to develop essential skills in conducting science assessment to support student learning. The chapters parallel a typical structure of a science methods course, making the integration of this text into a science methods course seamless. Due to its practical and concise nature, this

• Author : Elizabeth Hammerman
• Publisher : Corwin Press
• Release Date : 2009
• ISBN : 9781412962964

Ideal for preservice and inservice teachers, this user-friendly resource demonstrates how to use formative assessments to guide instruction and evaluate student learning in standards-based science.

• Author : William Rice
• Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
• Release Date : 2012-07-26
• ISBN : 9781849692939

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• Author : Jo Anne Vasquez,Cary Sneider,Michael Comer
• Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
• Release Date : 2013
• ISBN : 0325043582

"STEM Lesson Essentials moves beyond the rhetoric and provides knowledge, tools, models, and examples that make STEM a reality of teaching and learning in classrooms." -Rodger Bybee, Executive Director (Retired), Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Want to know how to implement authentic STEM teaching and learning into your classroom? STEM Lesson Essentials provides all the tools and strategies you'll need to design integrated, interdisciplinary STEM lessons and units that are relevant and exciting to your students. With clear definitions of both

• Author : Karen Worth,Jeff Winokur,Martha Heller-Winokur
• Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
• Release Date : 2009
• ISBN : 0325027110

The twenty-first century has brought with it considerable buzz surrounding the connections between science and literacy. Karen Worth and her colleagues have been at the center of this discussion for more than a decade, and they share their very practical ideas and insights. -Lori Fulton Author of Science Notebooks: Writing About Inquiry The voice of real teachers is loud and clear-the centerpiece of this very readable and profoundly helpful book. It will be extraordinarily helpful for anyone interested in using

• Author : Regie Routman
• Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
• Release Date : 2008
• ISBN : UOM:39076002769086

What makes a teacher outstanding? More than anything, it's a way of being with kids in the classroom that lets them know they're smart and capable of high achievement. When you combine this mind-set with effective instruction, teaching and learning are transformed. In Teaching Essentials, Regie Routman gives us as much of a blueprint for achieving this powerful, responsive teaching as we're ever going to get. Drawing on her extensive work with students who have excelled against great odds, Regie

• Author : Rick Allen
• Publisher : ASCD
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : 9781416605294

How can elementary school teachers--the proverbial jacks-of-all-trades--feel more confident in their knowledge of science and teach science more effectively? The Essentials of Science, K-6 aims to unleash every elementary educator's inner science teacher. Through a plethora of classroom examples, interviews with award-winning elementary science teachers and science education experts, and a wide-ranging look at recent research examining the state of science education, readers will learn * How to align curriculum to state standards using such practices as backward design. * How to