Full Description
For courses in Science Methods in Middle and Secondary Schools (Curriculum and Instruction)
For pre-service and beginning (novice) science teachers
This text provides the initial scaffolding needed by novice teachers to understand and enact the basics of science teaching—purpose, planning, assessing, teaching, and managing. Included is information on the foundational areas of science education, with numerous vignettes and examples of effective classroom practices in action. The focus is on preparing those entering or new to the science teaching profession to use their understanding of science and engineering to prepare the next generation of Americans for life in the 2st century. It provides ideas and knowledge about how to help students see science and engineering as ways of thinking about and investigating the world around them, and to recognize the relationship between science and engineering in their everyday lives.
The guidance provided in the new Eighth Edition:
NEW! Supports science teaching and learning as reflected in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
NEW! Prepares teacher candidates to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions called for in the 2012 NSTA Standards for Science and Teacher Preparation.
Includes numerous motivating features—vignettes, cases, classroom examples, exercises, and more—give the concepts real meaning in readers' everyday lives.
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Contents
Chapter 1 - Thoughts and Actions of Beginning Science Teachers
Chapter 2 - The Purpose of Science Teaching
Chapter 3 - Planning to Teach Science
Chapter 4 - Assessing Science Learning
Chapter 5 - Teaching Science
Chapter 6 - The Science Learning Environment
Chapter 7 - The Nature of Science and Engineering and Technology
Chapter 8 - Inquiry and Science Teaching
Chapter 9 - Divers Adolescent Learners and Differentiated Instruction
Chapter 10 - Learning in Middle Grades and Secondary Schools Chapter 11 - Lecture, Discussion and Demonstration
Chapter 12 - Science, Engineering and Societal Issues
Chapter 13 - Laboratory Work and Fieldwork
Chapter 14 - Safety in the Laboratory and Classroom
Chapter 15 - Computers and Electronic Technologies
