In the Secondary Science Education Program:
Student Teaching Seminar in Science Education: This seminar is designed to support secondary science teacher candidates to learn from their student teaching and develop into intentional, responsive teachers who provide all students access to meaningful science.
Advanced Teaching of Science in Secondary Schools (i.e. Methods): This methods course in secondary science education explores the question, How can we teach science to make it meaningful for learners? Using Ambitious Science Teaching as a framework for this course, students examine the interrelationships between theory and practice in teaching science.
Practicum in Secondary Science Education: This field-based course is a co-requisite of the methods course. Students plan lessons, devise instructional strategies, and assess student learning in secondary science classrooms.
Introduction to Science Literacies: Students delve into practices of inquiry, representation and justification in scientific domains, considering the relationships to the development of student understanding. Students explore questions such as: what does it mean to know in scientific domains? What does it mean to “leverage student thinking” in science? In what ways can students’ informal experiences with science connect with more schooled learning experiences?
In Other Programs:
Video Analysis: (graduate level) This course aims to provide students with the conceptual and methodological tools for both (a) examining educational research that makes use of video and (b) designing and conducting video-based research.
Pedagogy Seminars: Pedagogy seminars are jointly instructed by a STEM faculty member of a core undergraduate-level content class and an education faculty member to uncover the process of teaching and learning of that course content. I have co-instructed pedagogy seminars associated with courses in Astronomy and Earth Science. I look forward to teaching one associated with Analytical Chemistry and Genetics in the 2017-2018 academic year.
Inquiry II: (non-licensure, masters level program for urban middle school teachers). This course provides instruction in science content, research-based theory, and best practices in science teaching with the goal of improving middle school student science literacy and learning.
Inquiry II Coach: Coaching is a co-requisite of the Inquiry II course. I provided in class coaching support of both science content and practices through careful analysis of unit and lesson design, weekly classroom observations, and pre- and post-teaching conferences.
Teachers and Teaching in Independent Schools: (non-licensure, masters level program) This module is part of the Teachers, Leaders and Learning in Independent Schools theme of the Independent School Leadership Masters program. The goal of this module is to help students develop conceptions of ambitious teaching by exploring visions of good teaching and reviewing important considerations in evaluating teachers.
Analysis of Teaching: (non-licensure, masters level program) This course asks students to learn, develop, modify, and use analytic procedures and methodologies to systematically explore teaching in formal and informal contexts.
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