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Preparing Future Teachers In The Age Of Ngss: An Investigation Of A Preservice Teacher Curriculum, Pearl Hughes, Ellis Lower May 2020

Preparing Future Teachers In The Age Of Ngss: An Investigation Of A Preservice Teacher Curriculum, Pearl Hughes, Ellis Lower

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The Next Generation Science Standards call for science learning be composed of scientific practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas, i.e. “three-dimensional." The class SCED 201 at Western uses the Next Generation Physical Science and Everyday Thinking curriculum, whose publishers claim it to be three-dimensional. A revised version of the Three-Dimensional Learning Assessment Protocol (3DLAP), was used to analyze one unit of the curriculum. Knowing how to revise learning opportunities to engage with each of the three dimensions, will help provide students with learning in line with the NGSS. This poster presents the results of the 3DLAP analysis, and an …


Family & Community Engaged Teaching (Facet): A Pathways Collaborative, Kyra Oziel May 2019

Family & Community Engaged Teaching (Facet): A Pathways Collaborative, Kyra Oziel

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Exploration of the history, education theory, practical application, and ongoing results from the Woodring College of Education FACET program. The Learning in Communities and Schools (LinCS) office has collaborated with FACET, Shuksan Middle School, and Alderwood Elementary School to pilot an immersive interdisciplinary pre-service education program that strives to develop critically conscious family and community engaged educators who, in partnership, foster the potential and well-being of all children and youth in the context of their lives. The LinCS office has helped to implement and assess this program in its initial years.