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Learning scientist, mathematics and science teacher educator, Assistant Director of the TN STEM Education Center at @MTSU
Apr 9, 2019 46 tweets 28 min read
I'm at the "Examining Successes and Challenges From Five Different Science Teacher Professional Development Projects Around the Next Generation Science Standards" session at #AERA19. Will do some live tweeting. First up, @synthesizer17 and @SarahAMichaels1 share work with the @NGSXproject Professional development. #AERA19
Apr 3, 2019 22 tweets 14 min read
Jason Buell: Teachers more often use proximal phenomena in their formative assessment, some use of distal phenomena as well. #NARST2019 Students had trouble seeing relationships between proximal phenomena and anchor phenomena. Work with teachers can help them think about the teaching practices that could support students to make these connections. #NARST2019
Apr 3, 2019 19 tweets 12 min read
I'll be live tweeting the next #NARST2019 session: Something Like a Phenomena. Excited to hear about the different ideas on phenomena from the papers! First up, Kristen Bergsman shares work on designing phenomena for high school biology classrooms. #NARST2019
Apr 3, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
Dr. Miray Tekkumru-Kisa shares work on developing the IQA-Science measure of instructional quality in science classrooms. #NARST2019 IQA-Science focuses on the degree to which students engage in high level thinking and semesemaking in science classrooms as they work on science tasks to figure out a phenomena. #NARST2019
Apr 3, 2019 6 tweets 3 min read
@darwins_apostle shares work about epistemological disagreement with a detailed analysis of science classrooms, focused on argumentation. #NARST2019 @darwins_apostle: Overemphasis on argumentation can eclipse other parts of the NGSS standards that support students' sensemaking. #NARST2019
Apr 2, 2019 18 tweets 19 min read
@reiserbrianj shares work on supporting purposeful sensemaking in science classrooms #NARST2019 @reiserbrianj How do teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and practices shape how they interpret and enact instructional materials? How do this evolve over time? #NARST2019
Apr 2, 2019 24 tweets 11 min read
Designing and implementing science standards session at #NARST2019 First up, coordination between SEPs and CCCs from @BethShort_
Apr 2, 2019 15 tweets 6 min read
Excited to hear about the @NSSMEatHRI results related to equity! #NARST2019 Examining equity in the national survey results. Presenters also recognize that not all factors that matter can be measured #NARST2019