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If you want to make the most of your precious professional
development budget-and who doesn't?-look for inspiration in this
updated edition from the Exemplary Science series. This essay
collection is designed to spark new ideas while encouraging
high-quality learning opportunities for teachers at all grade
levels. The book features: An overview of current research on
quality professional development and how it aligns with the
National Science Education Standards. Fourteen professional
development programs that provide real-life models of how to train
current or future teachers to carry out the constructivist,
inquiry-based approach recommended by the Standards. End-of-chapter
questions help you relate the material to your own situation. A
reader's guide that includes suggestions for using the book in
professional learning communities and other collaborative settings.
Some of the collection's authors contributed to the first edition
and have updated their chapters to share additional data and
communicate what they've learned that might support your work.
Additional chapters describe programs and approaches new to this
edition. Whether you're a teacher, staff development provider,
administrator, or preservice science methods instructor, you'll
find this collection to be a fresh and highly useful professional
learning tool.
Many foundational concepts in biology are notoriously difficult to
teach. The challenge grows tougher when you add the need to align
with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This book makes
your job easier by opening your mind to fresh and effective
approaches for today's high school classrooms. Hard-to-Teach
Biology Concepts provides an Instructional Planning Framework that
helps you understand students' learning needs, incorporate
appropriate teaching strategies, and interpret the framework and
teaching tools through the lens of NGSS. Contributing authors show
how they use the framework to teach four NGSS disciplinary core
ideas: growth and development of organisms, ecosystems, heredity,
and biological evolution. Although the teaching models are specific
and illuminating, the book doesn't dictate what's right for you.
Veteran teachers and those new to the classroom can use the
framework to develop students' conceptual understanding based on
what works best for student and teacher.
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