Douglas B. Larkin

Teaching Science in Diverse Classrooms (eBook, PDF)

Real Science for Real Students

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers science teachers a new way of thinking by drawing on research that explores new methods to make science accessible to K-12 students. Through engaging anecdotes, Larkin empathizes the challenges faced by science teachers, and presents a clear pathway to successful, inspiring, and culturally relevant science teaching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429578496
• Artikelnr.: 57595829

Autorenporträt

Douglas B. Larkin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Montclair State University. He has worked as a high school science teacher and educator in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Kenya, and Papua New Guinea. His research examines science teacher preparation and retention, as well as issues of equity and justice in teacher education.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Teaching Real Science to Real Students: On Being a Thoughtful
Science Teacher and Doing a Good Job
PART I Student Ideas Are the Raw Material of Our Work
1 Aiming for Culturally Relevant Science Teaching: An Argument for Meeting
Our Students Where They Are
2 Eliciting Students' Ideas: Student Ideas as the Raw Material of Science
Teachers' Work
3 Every Misconception a Shiny Pebble: Glimpsing Beautiful and Productive
Extensions of Prior Knowledge
4 Responding to Student Questions Without Giving Answers: "Maybe it Will
Just Have to Remain a Mystery Forever"
PART II Real Science, Real Students
5 HeLa Cells, High-speed Chases, and Other Essential Questions: Because
Science Class Should Not Be a Trivia Game
6 Reconsidering Labs and Demonstrations for Model-Based Inquiry: Don't
Throw Away Those Owl Pellets Just Yet
7 What if the Stork Carried 20-sided Dice? On the Use of Models and
Simulations as Tools for Thinking
8 Eyes Like a Scientist: Framing Safety as Part of Scientific Practice for
Students
9 In Praise of Field Trips and Guest Speakers: Bringing the Inside-Out and
the Outside-In for Science Learning
10 "Before Today I was Afraid of Trees": Rethinking Nature Deficit Disorder
in Diverse Classrooms
PART III Science Teacher Learning
11 Observing Candles and Classrooms: Learning from Other Teachers by
Withholding Judgment
12 Mentoring New Science Teachers: Novices Get Better When We Support Them
with Good Feedback
13 The Black Belt Science Teacher: Differentiation and a Speculative
Learning Progression for Science Teachers
14 Teaching at the Boundaries of Our Knowledge: Being Knowledgeable Enough
About What We Teach to Not Feel Like a Fraud
15 Playing School vs. Doing Science: Providing All Students with Access to
the Means of Knowledge Generation
Afterword: Good Reasons for Becoming a Science Teacher