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Refocusing The Revolution: A New Research Agenda For Geoscience Education., Elizabeth B. Lewis
Refocusing The Revolution: A New Research Agenda For Geoscience Education., Elizabeth B. Lewis
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Posters and Presentations
Geoscience Education: Stuck in Low Gear or Poised for a Breakthrough?
We must act quickly & broaden approaches to four problems
• Falling geoscience undergraduate enrollments
• Lagging diversity in the geosciences
• Insufficient secondary Earth & space science teacher supply
• Low (7%) high school ESS course offerings and enrollment
Leverage existing educational research literature & theory
• Curriculum stability and change
• Culture, gender, and science education
• Socio-cultural models of science and theories of learning
Develop a new research agenda to spark the Revolution
Measuring Short-Term Teacher Learning Of Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Dale R. Baker, Senay Yaşar-Purzer, Michael Lang
Measuring Short-Term Teacher Learning Of Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Dale R. Baker, Senay Yaşar-Purzer, Michael Lang
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Posters and Presentations
The Communication in Science Inquiry Project (CISIP) provides schoolbased teams of secondary science and English and/or ELL teachers with year-round professional development with the goal of establishing scientific classroom discourse communities (SCDC). Teams participated in one of two three-week CISIP summer institutes. Four CISIP model elements of a SCDC can be framed within a pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) taxonomy at two levels: domain-specific PCK, including academic language development, written discourse, and oral discourse; and general pedagogy, specifically scientific inquiry. The fifth professional development element focuses on overarching learning principles that are applicable to any discipline. By situating the CISIP professional …