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A Systematic Approach to Support Teacher Retention and Renewal

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A Systematic Approach to Support Teacher Retention and Renewal

Teacher retention and renewal are critical issues facing school districts across the United States, with the need for teacher retention at a time when...

Mentoring and Coaching for Teachers of Science: Enhancing Professional Culture

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Mentoring and Coaching for Teachers of Science: Enhancing Professional Culture

Mentor programs provide an opportunity to foster a professional culture that focuses on improving the teaching, learning, and assessing of science as ...

Personal Histories Supporting Retention of Beginning Science Teachers

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Personal Histories Supporting Retention of Beginning Science Teachers

Beginning science teachers enter the classroom with an early professional role identity formed from life experiences in science, education, and volunt...

The Reemerging Cycle of Teacher Supply and Demand: North Carolina Takes Action

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The Reemerging Cycle of Teacher Supply and Demand: North Carolina Takes Action

This chapter presents a brief history of teacher shortages, particularly in the fields of science and mathematics. It describes numerous efforts by No...

Why Did We Write This Book?

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Why Did We Write This Book?

Congratulations! You have secured a position to teach the fascinating world of science to middle school students! Science to young adolescents!?!?...

Classroom Management

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Classroom Management

Perhaps the most important skill a good teacher should possess is the ability to control students. A teacher who can devise fascinating and unique le...

Using Your Community Resources

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Using Your Community Resources

Within the field of education, it is important for communities to take an active role in developing relationships with the local schools and learning ...

Teaming

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Teaming

Teaming is a method of grouping students so they share the same set of teachers for their core subject areas—science, math, language arts, social st...

Substitute Teachers

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Substitute Teachers

Our lives are ones of uncertainty and surprise, yin and yang existences. Some things we can control and others we are powerless to command, even with...

Best Practices

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Best Practices

Front-page articles in science and education periodicals and journals give voice to the growing concern that scores on nationwide science exams have e...

Lab Set-Up and Safety

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Lab Set-Up and Safety

Whether your assigned classroom is for science labs or there is a specific lab area shared among several teachers, you need to set up properly for gro...

Cooperative Learning and Assessment

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Cooperative Learning and Assessment

Cooperative learning in its simplest sense is two or more students working together on an assignment. In an expanded definition, cooperative learning...

Writing for Science

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Writing for Science

Writing, as we all know, is an integral part of any discipline. And, because of the important role that writing up lab reports and research plays in ...

Adapting Labs and Troubleshooting

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Adapting Labs and Troubleshooting

A great deal of information is available on how children learn—brain research, multiple intelligence aspects, concrete versus abstract thinking, env...

Modeling and Demonstrations

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Modeling and Demonstrations

One common misconception in the middle school science classroom is that students magically will know how to do many of the seemingly easy tasks teache...

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