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NSTA Standards for Science Teacher Preparation
This website outlines standards for science teacher preparation, intended to be used when preparing accreditation programs.

Resource Type: Standards and assessments
Teacher Prep Topic: Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation
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.

Resource Type: Curricula, Conference presentations/products
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

Teaching Practice: A Cross-Professional Perspective
This research article examines professional training in clinical psychology and seminary programs along with teacher preparation, in an effort to describe how professional practice is taught across different disciplines. This article identifies representation, decomposition, and approximation of practice as three cross-disciplinary pedagogies in professional education.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships, Pedagogical Strategies in 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

Sustainability Education Framework for Teachers: Developing sustainability literacy through futures, values, systems, and strategic thinking
The Sustainability Education Framework for Teachers (SEFT) intends to build acapacity for educators to be able to understand: (i) the broad, complex nature of sustainability, (ii) the problem-oriented, solution driven nature of sustainability, and (iii) how sustainability connects to them as both citizens and classroom teachers. SEFT embraces four ways of thinking: futures, values, systems, and strategic which are conceptualized as being bi-directional and interconnected.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Institutional and programmatic change
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Social Justice Standards: A Framework for Anti-bias Education
The Social Justice Standards provide a framework, common language, and age-appropriate learning outcomes for anti-bias education at every stage of K–12 instruction. The Social Justice Standards can guide curriculum development to support efforts to make schools more just and equitable. The 20 standards are divided into 4 domains: identity, diversity, justice, and action.

Resource Type: Standards and assessments
Teacher Prep Topic: Equity, inclusion and diversity
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Washington State Legislature HB 1599
Bill 1599 aims to promote"career and college readiness through modified high school graduation requirements."

Resource Type: Tools, rubrics, etc. for programmatic improvements
Teacher Prep Topic: Policies affecting STEM Teacher Prep:State policies, Policies affecting STEM Teacher Prep
Grade Level: 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

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: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources, 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.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
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