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This article discusses the use of the Think Aloud strategy at the beginning of a lesson to model to students both the type of thinking that develops conceptual understanding, as well as how to share one’s thinking…
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This article presents an instructional strategy called Mathematical Bet Lines that was designed to promote classroom discourse and sense-making for all students, in particular English Language Learners…
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Submitting a proposal to NSF's DR K-12 Program? Read the latest solicitation.
Read the latest NSF DR K-12 Solicitation (17-584). Proposals are due November 14, 2017.
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A guide for preparation and submission of NSF applications via grants.gov. Effective January 30, 2017.
A guide for preparation and submission of NSF applications via grants.gov. Effective January…
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The Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) is comprised of documents relating to the National Science Foundation's proposal and award process for the assistance programs of NSF.…
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NSF program director provides information on the DR K-12 program and solicitation in this webinar series.
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August 31, 2017 Webinar
September 11, 2017 Webinar
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Find resources to help manage your NSF project.
Find resources to help manage your NSF project.
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Awardee Guide to Using CADREK12.org | CADRE
Managing Your NSF Grant: Webinar Slides and…
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This tool is designed to offer tips to principal investigators for the preparation and submission of reports to the National Science Foundation (NSF).
In this brief, CADRE has compiled tips on preparing…
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In this October 25th webinar, NSF Program Officer Rob Ochsendorf introduced DR K-12 grantees to the ins and outs of NSF DR K-12 project management.
In this October 25th webinar, NSF Program Director Rob…
Emerging Design Principles for Online and Blended Teacher Professional Development in K-12 STEM Education
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Following the launch of Spotlight on Online & Blended Professional Development (PD), CADRE convened awardees representing 11 DRK-12 projects in a series of activities designed to elicit and form consensus around…
Early Childhood Educators’ Self-Efficacy in Science, Math, and Literacy Instruction and Science Practice in the Classroom
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Quality early science education is important for addressing the low science achievement, compared to international peers, of elementary students in the United States. Teachers’ beliefs about their skills in a content area…
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To make sense of the Common Core State Standards mathematical practice (MP) 8, this article illustrates what “repeated reasoning” means, why looking for and expressing regularity in it is such a valuable mathematical habit…
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A first-year algebra student’s curiosity about factorials of negative numbers became a starting point for an extended discovery lesson into territory not usually explored in secondary school mathematics…
Commentary: Meet Me in Azul’s Room: Designing a Virtual Field Placement for Learning to Teach Mathematics
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This article explores the ways in which a teacher educator uses digital technology to create a virtual field placement to blur the boundaries between a university methods course and teacher candidates’ field placements…
High School Students’ Evaluations, Plausibility (Re) Appraisals, and Knowledge about Topics in Earth Science
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Evaluation is an important aspect of science and is receiving increasing attention in science education. The present study investigated (1) changes to plausibility judgments and knowledge as a result of a series of…
Examining the Impact of Lesson-Analysis Based Teacher Education and Professional Development across Methods Courses, Student Teaching, and Induction
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Presentation on ViSTA at the 2017 NARST conference in San Antonio, Texas. The ViSTA Plus project is a multi-year preservice teacher education program for elementary teachers that spans the methods course, student teaching…
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This tool is designed to help teachers reflect on a lesson they observed and guide effective, learning-focused mentoring conversations.
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This chapter examines the affordances of museum resources in informal settings and how they shape science teacher identity.
This chapter examines the affordances of museum resources in informal settings…
Informal science institutions and learning to teach: An examination of identity, agency, and affordances
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This article describes research from a clinical experience in a museum where teacher candidates engaged visitors in learning dialogs around objects on a moveable cart in an exhibit. We describe how working in informal…
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This article describes a museum-based urban teacher-residency (UTR) program's approach to building subject-specific content knowledge and research experience in Earth Science teacher candidates.
This…
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In 2012, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City launched the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Urban Residency Program. Developing a teacher preparation program from scratch is a tall order, and the…
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This article describes the role of museums in supporting schools and teachers in addressing the demands of the NGSS.
Released in 2013, the Next Generation Science Standards have the potential to…
Supporting Mentor Teachers in the Assessment of and Inquiry into High-Leverage Science Teaching Practices
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This paper reviews the literature on mentor teachers’ learning in relationship to high leverage practices and summarizes existing research on mentoring and experienced teacher learning that might help inform the design of…
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This paper describes a residency model that includes faculty members who serve as Senior Specialists – mentors in school residency rotations, advisors in teaching as a profession, and co-instructors in academic courses and…
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New York Times Video on the American Museum of Natural History's master's degree program in teaching, part of a broad national campaign to add 100,000 science, technology and math teachers by 2021.…
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In this video, find out more about the Museum's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program from five MAT graduates in the class of 2013, who are now teaching in New York City's public schools. The MAT program with a…
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Teachers learn to teach Earth and Space science through the American Museum of Natural History's Master of Arts in Teaching Urban Residency Program (MAT), the first urban teacher residency program offered by a museum. The…
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This article summarizes how a group of undergraduate regional university faculty built a program for rigorous and research-based science teacher preparation at the elementary level—namely, the “Model of Research-Based…
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This article explores the ways in which a teacher educator uses digital technology to create a virtual field placement to blur the boundaries between a university methods course and teacher candidates' field placements…
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A Pleasure to Measure will enable you to select activities quickly, easily, and confidently to target the content that your students are ready to learn. You’ll find everything that you need in the six E’s that the authors…
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This article describes a four-step strategy used in our professional development program to help elementary science teachers recognize and create lesson plans with coherent conceptual storylines.
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This article focused on engineering practices for elementary classrooms.
Cunningham, C. M., & Kelly, G. J. (2017). Framing Engineering Practices in Elementary School Classrooms. International…
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This article features EarSketch -a STEAM learning intervention that combines a programming environment and API for Python and JavaScript, a digital audio workstation, an audio loop library, and a standards-aligned…
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This article examine geometry teachers' perspectives regarding realistic contexts during a lesson study cycle. I ask the following. (a) What are the participants' perspectives regarding realistic contexts that elicit…
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In this article, students use data and models to make a difference in their own school yard.
Marcum-Dietrich, N., Kerlin, S., Staudt, C., & Daniels, M. (2018). Our watershed. The Science Teacher, 85…
Uncovering the Skills That Preservice Teachers Bring to Teacher Education: The Practice of Eliciting a Student’s Thinking
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This article reports a study of the specific knowledge of and skills with teaching practice that novices bring to teacher education with respect to one teaching practice, eliciting student thinking in elementary…
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Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in…
Examining the Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching of Proving in Scenarios Written by Pre-service Teachers
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This chapter examines what aspects of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching of Proving (MKT-P) can be observed in written scenarios of classroom interactions, produced by pre-service teachers of mathematics…
Evaluation of three interventions teaching area measurement as spatial structuring to young children
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In this article, authors evaluated the effects of three instructional interventions designed to support young children’s understanding of area measurement as a structuring process.
We evaluated the…
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This study examines how students’ engineering notebooks across four units of the curriculum Engineering is Elementary (EiE) support student work during design challenges.
Engineering design challenges…
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching.
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses using the 5E learning…
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This conference paper explains how EarSketch affects student persistence.
McKlin, T., Magerko, B., Lee, T., Wanzer, D., Edwards, D., & Freeman, J. (2018). Authenticity and personal creativity: How…
Designing Simulations to Learn About Pre-service Teachers’ Capabilities with Eliciting and Interpreting Student Thinking
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This chapter focuses on the design of simulation assessments to learn about pre-service teachers’ capabilities with eliciting and interpreting student thinking.
This chapter focuses on the design of…
Children’s Measurement: A Longitudinal Study of Children’s Knowledge and Learning of Length, Area, and Volume
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This monograph is a report on a four-year-long multisite longitudinal study that studied children’s thinking and learning about geometric measurement (i.e., length, area, and volume).
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Directing focus and enabling inquiry with representations of practice: Written cases, storyboards, and teacher education
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In this conference paper, authors discuss affordances and liabilities of using a storyboard to depict a written case of a teacher’s dilemma that involves race, opportunity to learn, and student community…
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In this paper, authors explore collaborative music live coding (CMLC) using the live coding environment and pedagogical tool EarSketch. In particular, we examine the use of turn-taking and a customized chat window inspired…
Moving toward approximations of practice in teacher professional development: Learning to summarize a problem-based lesson
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This article focuses on problem-based lessons in teacher professional development.
González, G. (2018). Moving toward approximations of practice in teacher professional development: Learning to…
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This article focused on equitable mathematics instruction for U.S. and Korean preservice teachers.
Lee, J., Kim, J-H., Kim, S-M., & Lim, W. (2018). How to envision equitable mathematics instruction…
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In this paper, authors present the causal loop diagrams developed to explain the relationships between the actors and attributes involved in implementing EarSketch in a particular school setting. The diagram allows us to…
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This chapter focused on learning and teaching measurement.
Smith, J. P., & Barrett, J. E. (2017). The learning and teaching of measurement: Coordinating quantity and number. In J. Cai (Ed.),…