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in the education of STEM teachers for high-need school districts through sharing of evidence-based innovations
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Do Aspiring Teachers Get Opportunities to Learn About Ambitious and Equitable Instruction During their Clinical Experience? The Benefits of Being in a “Congruent” Classroom
A growing number of pre-service STEM teachers are being prepared for work in high-need settings, to enact instruction that foregrounds responsiveness to students’ ideas, supports diverse sensemaking opportunities for learners, and maintains educational justice as a core value (see Davis, et al., 2019; Stroupe, et al., 2020). This kind of ambitious teaching aims to support... Read More
What Do We Know About How to Effectively Prepare Teachers to Engage with Families?
Educators and school leaders know how important it is to build relationships with families and communities to support students in their development. Family engagement helps educators to know their students on a deeper level, builds cultural understanding, and enables consistent messaging from school to family. When educators are confident in their ability to engage with... Read More
Preparing Pre-service Teachers for Success in Linguistically Diverse Science Classrooms
One in 10 students in our public schools are emergent bilingual students (EBs), tasked with learning science even as they are still developing their English (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). It is becoming more likely, therefore, that all science teachers will have the opportunity at some point in their careers to teach science to... Read More
How Professional Organizations Can Support Noyce Scholars: The Case for NSTA
Over the last year, it has become clear that the demand for well-prepared teachers of science with a range of instructional skills remains great. Educators are now teaching both virtual and in-person, and in many cases a blend of each, straining the very framework of how teachers are prepared to be successful in their critical... Read More
Broadening the Equity Lens for STEM Teacher Education: The Invisibility of Disability
In this blog, we examine STEM teacher education as a means of broadening the equity lens to regularly include disability. We invite you to be co-learners with us. Some of you may be new to this topic; others may be experts. We need ALL of you. Normalizing the conversation around disability in STEM will benefit... Read More
Centering Youth Lives in Science Teacher Education
What justice-centered challenges do youth from minoritized communities face in learning science? Research shows that meaningfully supporting youths’ community and out-of-school experiences in STEM can provide significant opportunities for school science learning (Birmingham et al., 2017). Despite such evidence, there are limited opportunities for pre- and in-service teachers to learn how to connect STEM learning... Read MoreAdditional Posts
Pushing the Boundaries of Practice-Based Teacher Education: How Can Online Simulated Classrooms Be Used Productively to Support STEM Teacher Learning? | March 30, 2021
Reimagining the STEM Education Pipeline for Teachers of Color | February 16, 2021
How Can STEM Disciplines and STEM Education Work in Concert to Address Systemic Racism and the COVID-19 Pandemic? Creating a New Normal for STEM Education | January 26, 2021
Seizing Opportunities in 2021: Building on What We Know | January 6, 2021
Assuming Brilliance in Boys of Color in Our STEM Education Classrooms | December 9, 2020
What Are Teachers Learning About the Science of Learning? | November 20, 2020
Program Evaluation Frameworks: Why Do They Matter? | November 4, 2020
How Can We Disrupt Ideologies Around Normalcy, Difference, and Identity that Dis/able Students in Mathematics Education? | October 14, 2020
How Do Teachers Learn to Work Against Oppressive Systems? | September 29, 2020
Supporting Newly Hired Science Teachers for Continuous Learning | September 8, 2020
How to Center Equity and Humanize the Process of Coming Back Together: A Focus on Joy and Justice in STEM Education | August 14, 2020
Growing STAR Teacher-Researchers | July 8, 2020
Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers’ Learning About Equity: Methods and Early Results of Our Study | June 17, 2020
Unconscious Bias in the Classroom: How Cultural Stereotypes Affect Teachers’ Assessment of Students’ Math Abilities | May 27, 2020
How Can We Prepare Teachers to Embed a Virtuous Cycle of Self-Evaluation into Their Practice? | May 6, 2020
Is This “TRE” for Me? A Review of the Literature on Teacher Research Experiences and Impact on K-12 STEM Classrooms | April 6, 2020
What Do Preservice Science Teachers Understand about Principles of Effective Teaching for Diverse Learners? | February 26, 2020
Four Things You Need to Know about STEM and Education for 2020 | January 21, 2020
How Can Pre-service STEM Teachers Enact Project-Based Learning for Authentic Community Engagement? | December 30, 2019
STEM Professional Development That Works | November 13, 2019
How Can Elementary Teachers Improve Their Ability to Run Productive Science Discussions? | October 28, 2019
Opportunity to Learn Mathematics: Time, Task, & Talk | October 9, 2019
Preparing Our Next Generation of Science Teachers: What Should a Science Teacher Know and Be Able to Do? | September 25, 2019
Preparing New Teachers: How Collaboration Across Professional Associations Can Advance Technology Infusion | August 7, 2019
Bulldozing the STEM Silos in Omaha While Engaging P-12 Teachers and Building Campus STEM Excellence | March 25, 2019
Return on Investment: How do we know if we are preparing teachers who are ready for today’s classrooms? | January 25, 2019
Reflecting On Our Roots – Part Seventeen: Teachers for the 21st Century | September 13, 2018
