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

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Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instructions is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wid...

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Main Authors: Windschitl, Mark (Author), Thompson, Jessica Jane (Author), Braaten, Melissa L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Science > Study and teaching > United States.
Action research in education.
Teaching > Methodology.
Science > Study and teaching.
United States.
Informational works.
Table of 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
  • Core practice set #3
  • Ten Supporting ongoing changes in thinking: Collective thinking
  • Core practice set #3
  • 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.

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