Preparing Teachers to Design Tasks to Support, Engage, and Assess Science Learning in Rural Schools

The main goal of the 5DMASTERS (Making Aligned Science Tasks Equitable for Rural Students) project is to support rural science teachers to shift to assessment of students’ learning that includes five dimensions: using disciplinary core ideas, science & engineering practices, and cross-cutting concepts, and meaningfully connecting to students’ interests and identities. We will share results from our ethnographic study of rural teachers’ instructional contexts, along with the initial design of our online professional learning course.

Co-PI(s): Kerri Wingert, University of Colorado Boulder; Abe Lo and Chris Wilson, BSCS Science Learning