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Master of Arts in Teaching Program at the American Museum of Natural History

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Middle School High School Preservice Teachers Earth Science Wallace, J. (2014, March). Master of Arts in Teaching Program at…

Model of Research-Based Education for Teachers

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Elementary School Preservice Teachers Science Daniel Hanley

Situating Professional Development in the Context of Live Instruction: Teachers’ Learning Through Legitimate Peripheral Participation

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Objectives & Perspectives: This project addresses a fundamental challenge for professional development––how to support teachers to improve their practice. Decades of research have demonstrated that many common…

Understanding Teacher Learning in a Virtual Learning Community: A Mixed-Methods Approach

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Do teachers learn from classroom video clips on an online professional development site beyond what they indicate in the posted commentary? By comparing quantitative web usage data plus coded online video comments to…

Online Video-Based Lesson Analysis Professional Development to Support High School Science Teaching About Energy (EMAT)

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Objectives: We designed and studied an online, video-based, lesson analysis professional development (PD) course focused on energy concepts. The first goal of the project was to enhance teacher knowledge and practice…

Supporting Urban Science Teachers in Making Instructional Decisions to Facilitate Project-Based Learning for All Students

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Objective: The Next Generation Science Standards affirm an important vision for science education: Science for all students (AAAS, 1994; NRC, 2012b). In this vision, teachers engage students in three-dimensional (3D)…

Visual Access to Mathematics: A Blended Professional Development Course for Teachers of English Learners

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Significance, Objectives, and Theoretical Framework: The ever-increasing population of English Learner students (ELs) urgently needs opportunities to learn mathematical content in ways that emphasize mathematical…

Designing Practice-Based Learning Labs for K-2 Teachers: Initial Lessons Learned

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Objectives: It is well established that professional development (PD) is effective when learning opportunities are 1) closely connected to teachers’ classroom practice, supporting new practices in context, and 2)…

Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Social Media: Supporting Teacher Professional Learning and Student Scientific Argumentation

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Purpose: This exploratory grant was a design study to develop professional learning activities (e.g. face-to-face, online) to help teachers use available and emerging social media to teach scientific argumentation. A…

Proportions Playground: Using Interactivity to Support Mathematical Reasoning

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Objective & Theoretical Framework: The Proportions Playground project is concerned with how dynamic mathematical environments promote teachers’ mathematical reasoning. Specifically, this is an exploratory project aimed…

Vulnerability in Action: Noticing and Wondering in Building a Professional Learning Communities

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Objectives: This study examined an online and blended professional learning community (PLC) of mathematics teachers and the role of sociocultural practices in its constitution and sustainability. The last decade has been…

Changes to Mathematical Understanding as Influenced by Learning in a Collaborative Dynamic Geometry Setting

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Web 2.0 environments provide infrastructure for synchronous access to communication and shared dynamic mathematical tools. These tools enable mathematicians (Alagie & Alagie, 2013) and mathematics learners (Alqahtani…

Emerging Communities for Mathematical Practices and Assessment (EnCoMPASS): An Online Practice Space for Teacher Noticing and Wondering

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Noticing important aspects of student work (e.g. Professional Noticing (van Es & Sherin, 2002)), interpreting and evaluating student thinking and providing high-quality feedback are seen as high leverage practices and…

Focus on Energy: Preparing Elementary Teachers to Meet the NGSS Challenge

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Elementary School DRK-12 Science Sara Lacy Enviro Spotlight 2018 PI…

Fostering Pedagogical Argumentation: Pedagogical Reasoning With and About Student Science Ideas

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DRK-12 Science Leema Berland Broadening Participation Spotlight 2018 PI Meeting

Research on the Utility of Abstraction as a Guiding Principle for Learning about the Nature of Models in Science Education

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High School DRK-12 Science Daniel Capps Broadening Participation Spotlight…

Using Collective Argumentation to Develop Teaching Practices Integrating Coding Within the Science and Math Curriculum

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Elementary School STEM+C Engineering Mathematics Science Technology Tim Foutz…