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OpenSciEd
"The goal of OpenSciEd is to ensure any science teacher, anywhere, can access and download freely available, high quality, locally adaptable full-course materials that support equitable science learning."

Resource Type: Curricula
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation

Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education
Edited book; chapter authors are teacher educators who describe their own strategies, and vignettes that illustrate the use of core practices in teacher preparation.

Resource Type: Book or book chapter(s)
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships, Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation

TeachingWorks High-Leverage Practices
A website that identifies 19 "high-leverage practices," fundamental capabilities of teaching that supports students' content and social-emotional learning. These HLPs are not grade- or discipline-specific. This is a good list to spark conversation with colleagues (or yourself) when considering course or program outcomes.

Resource Type: Tools, rubrics, etc. for programmatic improvements
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

PBL as a pedagogical approach for integrated STEM: Evidence from prospective teachers
Research study investigated how prospective elementary teachers developed PBL units and integrated STEM and other disciplines into those units, as well as the affordances and constraints of integrated STEM as perceived by the PSTs. Evidence suggests PBL productive way to integrate STEM.

Resource Type: Curricula, Courses, Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Integrated STEM, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources, Engineering, Integrating STEM with Humanities and the Arts, Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Mathematics, Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth and Space Science, Environmental Science)
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation

POGIL
"POGIL is a teaching pedagogy that makes students feel engaged, accomplished & empowered. POGIL is Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning"

Resource Type: Curricula
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

AMTE Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics
Current recommendations for mathematics teacher preparation from the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. Executive summary and additional resources publicly available.

Resource Type: Links to agencies, organizations, and professional societies, Tools, rubrics, etc. for programmatic improvements, Position papers or recommendations, Standards and assessments
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Mathematics, Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Pedagogical Content Knowledge/Content Knowledge for Teaching
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation

Proposing a core set of instructional practices and tools for teachers of science
This article argues for the value of a fundamental set of research-based teaching practices (core practices) that preservice science teachers can learn to enact "ambitious teaching," and it proposes one possible set of such practices.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Building STEM Education on a Sound Mathematical Foundation
This is a position statement from the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Calls for educational experiences that support students' understanding of STEM discipline connection and integration. Argues that making mathematics integral to these experiences will support positive outcomes in connecting STEM to student's daily experiences and preparing for futures in STEM. Provides recommendations for STEM leaders, teachers, and curriculum developers.

Resource Type: Links to agencies, organizations, and professional societies, Position papers or recommendations
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Mathematics, Integrated STEM, Policies affecting STEM Teacher Prep
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: A Needed Change in Stance, Terminology, and Practice
An article that explores culturally sustaining pedagogy as an alternative to culturally responsive or relevant pedagogy.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Equity, inclusion and diversity
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Preparing University Faculty for Clinically-Oriented, Practice-Based Teacher Education
A presentation from the 73rd annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). We describe our synthesis of the clinical practice literature that led us to focus on core practices and practice-based teacher education pedagogies, and we discuss how we operationalized those ideas into professional development and related tools for university-based teams of education faculty.

Resource Type: Conference presentations/products
Teacher Prep Topic: Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation, Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation
Resource Origin: Generated by NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Prep project