JoinAll Teaching Strategies resources
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The development of web-based technologies in recent decades has provided ready access to a wealth of on-line educational resources, and despite concerns that availability of on-line recorded lectures impacts on-campus attendance, we believe there nee...
By Andrew Seen, Tony Kerr, Joee Kelk, Sharon Fraser
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Students’ academic performance improves when they use active study methods and discussion of study strategy efficacy can impact students’ choice. Faculty often employ mid-semester wrappers to encourage student reflection on their study habits, so...
By Maya Sobel, Linden Higgins
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Students are encouraged to develop a set of scientific skills and disciplinary practices common across the STEM disciplines....
By Daniel SIlverio, Eugenia Villa-Cuesta, Alison Hyslop, Kevin Kolack, Sabrina Sobel
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Out of School Engagements in Forensic Science on a College Campus
Out of school informal learning environments provide an excellent experience for students to develop scientific curiosity and critical thinking skills. Currently, there is a range of methods available for supporting STEM learning. As schools focus on...
By Sonali Raje, Keri-Anne Croce, Noelle Neff, Shannon Stitzel, Kelly Elkins
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Can a simple metacognitive intervention influence students’ knowledge, behavior, and performance?
Metacognition is often described as the awareness and regulation of learning. It uses strategies which include monitoring one’s own thinking, engaging in active planning and self-evaluating one’s study habits. Bloom’s taxonomy can be used as a...
By Kathleen Hefferon, Esther Angert, Anna Levina
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Hybrid Group-Based Concept Mapping
Helping students to understand complex processes is one of the core challenges in teaching biology courses. Concept mapping is a flexible pedagogical method that enables students to learn the complexities of a given subject while at the same time be...
By Nathan Ruhl
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Value Creation in a Pedagogically-focused Faculty Online Learning Community
Faculty online learning communities (FOLCs) can help faculty effectively adopt and persist in using research-based curricula. This paper documents faculty perspectives on the value they gained from participating in a multi-year FOLC designed to help ...
By Fred Goldberg, Edward Price, Mo Basir, Lawrence Escalada, Steven Maier, Steven Sahyun, Tamara Snyder, Liang Zeng
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Biology Teaching Assistants (TAs) were tasked with transitioning and adapting their instruction to an online environment by quickly implementing Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) practices. Effective online and in-person ...
By Amy Kulesza, Susan D'Agostino, Lucía Chacón-Díaz
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Reworking the Recipe: Adding Inquiry and Reflection to College Science Labs
Cookbook-style laboratories (labs), where students follow recipes and confirm known results are common, yet years of science teaching and learning research indicate they do not help college students develop the habits of mind and skills of a scientis...
By Cari Din, Martin MacInnis
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Social-Emotional Learning in the Science Classroom
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By Patty McGinnis
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Integrating Careers Into Your NGSS Lessons
Middle school is a critical time when students form ideas and preferences regarding careers they might pursue. Employers sometimes have difficulties filling STEM job openings, yet students often are not even aware these jobs exist. The middle-school ...
By Kyle Gray, Jill Maroo, Alan Czarnetzki, Sadik Kucuksari
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Expanding Language Use: Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners’ Sensemaking in Science
Students bring with them rich cultural and linguistic ways of knowing and communicating when engaged in figuring out explanations of phenomena. However, it is a challenge for teachers to support bi/multilingual learners in language-intensive science ...
By Samuel Lee, Benjamin DiFrancesco, Caitlin Fine, Katherine McNeill
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Fieldwork Fridays: Connecting Scientific Learning to Nature
Building routines around place-based learning allows students to apply their scientific learning to nature and form a connection with their local environment and the species in it over the course of a school year. Each Friday, in what are referred to...
By Katie Coppens
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Using Conferences to Give Students a Sense of Belonging
Conducting student conferences similar to those used by English Language Arts teachers to improve reading skills can give middle school science students a sense of belonging and ownership in science. Once a set of conference goals is determined, a te...
By Tasha Kirby
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In the face of the escalating climate crisis, effective climate education is imperative, not only for imparting knowledge, but also for inspiring action. This paper explores innovative strategies for teaching climate change in middle school, recogniz...
By Emily Godin, Jo'el Johanson