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Undergraduate Learning Assistants Foster Students’ Resilience During Transition to Online Learning in a Large Microbiology Classroom

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a series of emergency transitions to online learning for academic institutions around the world. Previous studies have shown that undergraduate Learning Assistants (LAs) improve student engagement in classroom activities ...

By Kathleen Hefferon and Esther Angert

Pre-service Teachers Biology Distance Learning New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education

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Improving Writing Skills Through Scripting a Science Podcast for Non-Expert Audiences

In this article, we describe and analyze the experience of undergraduate chemistry students who scripted episodes of a science podcast for non-expert audiences. This practice aimed to improve public communication of science and technology, often supp...

By Carolina Sotério and Salete Linhares Queiroz

Chemistry Interdisciplinary Literacy New Science Teachers Teaching Strategies Technology

Leadership by and for Science Teachers

NSTA Press Book

Leadership by and for Science Teachers

Imagine having the opportunity to hear from 21 colleagues about their personal leadership journeys—and to get their advice. Leadership by and for Science Teachers is just such an opportunity. Author Rodger Bybee provides the insights and inspiratio...

By Rodger Bybee

Early Childhood Elementary High School Middle School General Science STEM Teaching Strategies Careers New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Administrators

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Using Growth Rings on Wooden Blocks and Plywood to Enhance Students’ Spatial Reasoning Skills

Spatial reasoning is one of the most challenging skills to master in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This article reports the results of a teaching intervention that involved using wooden blocks to enhance the dev...

By Jeff B. Chaumba and Josphine Chaumba

Postsecondary Earth & Space Science Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary New Science Teachers Teaching Strategies

Activating Students' Ideas: Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence, K-5

NSTA Press Book

Activating Students' Ideas: Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence, K-5

Science teachers face an incredible challenging task of combining research on how students learn best, the three-dimensions of the Science Education Frameworks that in themselves are complicated to understand, and instructional sequences that lead to...

By Patrick Brown, Page Keeley

Early Childhood Elementary General Science 5E Assessment Instructional Materials NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation

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Teaching Assistant Responses to COVID-19

Undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are tasked with instructing undergraduate courses with little to no professional development (PD). To better develop PD opportunities, it is important to understand the benefits of improving TAs�...

By Cody Smith, Deepika Menon, Annette Wierzbicki, and Jenny Dauer

Administration New Science Teachers Pedagogy Professional Learning STEM

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STEM Graduate Students’ Development at the Intersection of Research, Leadership, and Innovation

Researcher innovation and leadership skills are fundamental for creating implementable solutions to pressing societal and market-based global problems. The Research to Innovation to Society (R2I2S) program is a transformative approach to graduate edu...

By Cindy Lenhart, Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Douglas A. Keszler, Judith Giordan, Rich Carter, and Michelle Dolgos

Interdisciplinary New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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