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- Equity, inclusion and diversity 35 matches
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- Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation 56 matches
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- Recruiting, advising, mentoring pre-service students 25 matches
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Curriculum for the Bioregion
Curriculum for the Bioregion engages faculty communities in exploring these issues and in building sustainability concepts and place-based learning in a wide array of courses and disciplines. Created as an initiative of the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education at The Evergreen State College, Curriculum for the Bioregion is now situated at Western Washington University.
Teacher Prep Topic: Institutional and programmatic change
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation
Transforming Teacher Education Through Clinical Practice: A National Strategy to Prepare Effective Teachers
An NCATE-commissioned report of the blue-ribbon panel on clinical preparation and partnerships for improved student learning.
Teacher Prep Topic: Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation, Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships, Recruiting, advising, mentoring pre-service students
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation
Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities
This book speaks to the possibility of involving families and communities in schools for the purpose of transforming education systems towards equity.
Teacher Prep Topic: Equity, inclusion and diversity
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation
Robotics K-3: Unplugged Coding
Tami Moffatt, Clover Park School District
A short presentation of resources and strategies for teaching robotics to K-3 students.
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources, Engineering, Equity, inclusion and diversity, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Computer Science, Integrated STEM
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation
Resource Origin: Generated by NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Prep project
Redefining Teaching, Re-Imagining Teacher Education
The authors advocate for a conceptualization of teaching as a complex endeavor where teachers are decision-makers and reflective practitioners, with an accompanying shift of teacher education to emphasize clinical practice and pedagogies of enactment.
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation
Knowledge Base for Teaching and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK): Some Useful Models and Implications for Teachers' Training
This study looks critically at the various Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) models frequently cited in literature and points out similarities and differences so that the reader can develop more insight into PCK and analyze the models' use and validity.
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Pedagogical Content Knowledge/Content Knowledge for Teaching , Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation
A conceptual framework for integrated STEM education
This article outlines a STEM education conceptual framework, with the goal of helping educators conceptualize how STEM cuts across disciplines. The authors claim that in order to prepare students for a complex global society, we must understand the complexity of our own disciplines.
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation
Society for Science
"Society for Science is a champion for science, dedicated to expanding scientific literacy, effective STEM education and scientific research. We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization focused on promoting the understanding and appreciation of science and the vital role it plays in human advancement: to inform, educate, and inspire."
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources, Integrated STEM
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation
POGIL
"POGIL is a teaching pedagogy that makes students feel engaged, accomplished & empowered. POGIL is Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning"
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary 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.
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation