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Teacher Guide for Emergency! Lab 7: Performing Surgery
In this chapter, doctors are unsuccessful in reviving a patient who is an organ donor. The students are called upon to perform the donation surgery, with the job of identifying and removing various organs from the patient’s body. In the United Stat...
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Teacher Guide for The Ominous Phone Call and Evaluating the Docs
A diagnosis for each of the four patients has finally been developed. Before releasing them from the hospital, students must complete the medical charts and provide the pharmacist with the information under the sections “Diagnosis,” “Treatments...
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What Are the Challenges for STEM Education?
This chapter discusses contemporary challenges of STEM education. The chapter describes several challenges and presents a model introduced in earlier publications—the 4Ps of purpose, policy, programs, and practice—as a way to understand the vario...
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What Can We Learn From the Original Sputnik Moment?
This chapter reviews the Sputnik era—a significant turning point for the STEM disciplines—and reforms of the STEM disciplines. The chapter includes the historical discussion of the national mission and insights specific to educational reform beca...
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Is STEM Education a Response to This Generation's Sputnik Moment?
This chapter sets the stage for the remaining chapters by describing several unique features for the STEM reform. The chapter addresses the themes of globalization and current STEM-related issues, 21st century workforce skills, and the continuing pip...
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STEM Education Seems to Be the Answer—What Was the Question?
Here, the question seems to have been, “What do we need to develop a knowledge economy?” The answer is to focus on the STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This chapter directs attention to 35 reports and publicatio...
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If STEM Is an Opportunity, What Is the Federal Government's Role?
This chapter presents five policy recommendations for the Federal Government, and is a response to a federal mandate to review STEM initiatives across federal agencies and coordinate, if not consolidate, various programs. The chapter provides an oppo...
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How Can a State, District, or School Develop a Coherent Strategy for STEM Education?
This chapter presents a framework and concrete way to begin thinking about STEM programs and practices. The chapter identifies a general question about the purposes of STEM education and proposes answers to the question setting the stage for leaders ...
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What is Your Perspective of STEM Education?
This chapter presents different perspectives of STEM education. The goal is to clarify and not confuse the issue of STEM. These perspectives are based on many discussions, articles, reports, and projects where there is reference to STEM. The author h...
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STEM Education: Where Are You Now, and Where Do You Want to Go?
This chapter addresses a critical point—when taking a programmatic curricular view, does STEM imply an integrated perspective? This chapter begins with a view of separate STEM disciplines and progresses to a variety of ways that the STEM discipline...
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What Is Your Action Plan for STEM Education?
This chapter will help you develop an action plan by considering critical factors such as the unit of change, resources, components, and support for STEM education. The plan should address the way you initiate, implement, bring to scale, and sustain ...
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Classroom Considerations: Behavior
Behavior management is probably never an issue in your advanced-level science class, and you should not assume that it will be now that you have a student with a disability in your class. Remember that good preparation on your part will go a long way...
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Basic Special Education Terms and Laws
Science teachers are not responsible for knowing the intricacies of disabilities and disability laws, but the fact that students with disabilities will be in the classroom means that they need to have at least a working knowledge of disability termin...
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The science teacher is an important member of the IEP team—bringing unique knowledge and perspective—and communication with the rest of the team will lead to the best possible outcome for students with disabilities in advanced science classes. Th...
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Classroom Considerations: Instruction
This chapter focuses on the classroom. When students with disabilities are part of an advanced class, the content of the class will remain the same but the science teacher may need to make some slight adjustments to the instruction to ensure that all...