Curriculum

LOOPS: Logging Opportunities in Online Programs for Science (Koile)

Author/Presenter

Kimberle Koile

Year
2009
Short Description

In this session, the presenters discuss findings and experiences regarding technology-embedded assessment and how to support teachers in using it effectively.

LOOPS: Logging Opportunities in Online Programs for Science (Koile)

Author/Presenter

Kimberle Koile

Year
2009
Short Description

In this session, the presenters discuss findings and experiences regarding technology-embedded assessment and how to support teachers in using it effectively.

Change Thinking for Global Science: Fostering and Evaluating Inquiry Thinking About the Ecological Impacts of Climate Change

Project Summary

During the lifetimes of our current middle and high school students, it is likely that our planet will undergo more anthropogenic change than it has during all of human history to date. The project is utilizing a learning progression approach for the systematic design of coordinated curriculum, tool, and assessment products focused on climate change biology. This work will provide an empirical and theoretical basis for critical concept development about the impacts of climate change on living systems.

Research Questions

Author/Presenter

Nancy Butler Songer

Philip Myers

James H. Beach

Vanessa L. Peters

Year
2010

Assembling Our Knowledge of Teacher Learning: The State of Our Understanding and Practices (Wilson)

Author/Presenter

Suzanne Wilson

Year
2009
Short Description

In this interactive talk, Wilson will ask each project to make explicit its assumptions about how teachers learn, the forces that matter the most, and how the logic and components of programs reflect those underlying assumptions. Wilson will then consider that array of assumptions in light of relevant scholarship on teaching quality and teacher learning.

About Standards, Possible Influences of DR-K12, and Synecdoche of X-County (Millman)

Author/Presenter

Richard Millman

Year
2009
Short Description

Join the panelists from the plenary presentation to continue conversations about common standards in each of the STEM disciplines.

A Successful Professional Development Model for Preparing Teachers to use Reform-Based Curriculum Effectively (Sutherland, Krajcik)

Author/Presenter

LeeAnn Sutherland

Joseph Krajcik

Year
2009
Short Description

In this session, participants experience a PD model that successfully encourages teachers to adopt a curriculum’s underlying philosophy rather than simply to enact it as sequence of activities.

A Successful Professional Development Model for Preparing Teachers to use Reform-Based Curriculum Effectively (Sutherland, Krajcik)

Author/Presenter

LeeAnn Sutherland

Joseph Krajcik

Year
2009
Short Description

In this session, participants experience a PD model that successfully encourages teachers to adopt a curriculum’s underlying philosophy rather than simply to enact it as sequence of activities.

A Successful Professional Development Model for Preparing Teachers to use Reform-Based Curriculum Effectively (Sutherland, Krajcik)

Author/Presenter

LeeAnn Sutherland

Joseph Krajcik

Year
2009
Short Description

In this session, participants experience a PD model that successfully encourages teachers to adopt a curriculum’s underlying philosophy rather than simply to enact it as sequence of activities.

A Successful Professional Development Model for Preparing Teachers to use Reform-Based Curriculum Effectively (Sutherland, Krajcik)

Author/Presenter

LeeAnn Sutherland

Joseph Krajcik

Year
2009
Short Description

In this session, participants experience a PD model that successfully encourages teachers to adopt a curriculum’s underlying philosophy rather than simply to enact it as sequence of activities.