Date/Topic
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Required reading (due this day)
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Assignments due
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Week 1, Sept. 3: Introduction to Scientific Inquiry
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None
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None
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Week 2, Sept. 10:
Questioning
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- Knuth, E., & Peressini, D. (2001). Unpacking the nature of discourse in mathematics classrooms. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 6(5), 320-325.
- Trowbridge, L. W., Bybee, R. W., & Carlson-Powell, J. (2000). Chapter 12: Questioning and discussion. Teaching secondary school science: Strategies for developing scientific literacy (1st ed., pp. 183-192). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill.
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- Reading reflection
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Week 3, Sept. 17: Facilitating Classroom Discourse
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- van Zee, E. & Minstrell, J. (1997). Using questioning to guide student thinking. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 6(2), 227-269.
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- Reading reflection
- Audio recording of Interview #1
- Transcript of interview to share (with line #'s)
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Week 4, Sept. 24:
Students' Ideas about Specific Scientific Topics
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- For PHYS131 & PHYS132 & PHYS299L LAs: McDermott, L. C., Rosenquist, M. L., & van Zee, E. (1987). Student difficulties in connecting graphs and physics: Examples from kinematics.McDermott, Rosenquist, van Zee_Student difficulties in connecting graphs and physics.pdf American Journal of Physics, 55(6), 503-513.
- For BSCI207 LAs: Gregory, T. R. (2008). Understanding evolutionary trees. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 1, 121-137.
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- Reading reflection
- Field note #1
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Week 5, Oct. 1: Learning from Cognitive Studies
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- Redish, E. F. (1994). Implications of cognitive studies for teaching physics. American Journal of Physics, 62(9), 796-803.
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- Reading reflection
- Plan for videotaping your teaching
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Week 6, Oct. 8: Conceptual Change through Analogies
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- Brown, D.E., (1994). Facilitating conceptual change using analogies and explanatory models. International Journal of Science Education, 16(2), 201-214.
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- Reading reflection
- Field note #2
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Week 7, Oct. 15: Variability in student reasoning
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- Hammer, D., (2004). "The Variability of Student Reasoning, Lecture 1: Case Studies of Children's Inquires." The Proceedings of the Enrico Fermi Summer School in Physics (Italian Physical Society
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- Reading reflection
- Audio recording of Interview #2
- Transcript of entire interview (with line #'s)
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Week 8, Oct. 22: Epistemology
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- Elby, A. (2001). Helping physics students learn how to learn. Physics Education Research, American Journal of Physics Supplement, 69(7), S54-S64.
- Perkins, KK, Adams, WK, Pollock, SJ, Finkelstein, ND, Wieman, CE (2005). Correlating student beliefs with student learning using the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey. 2004 PERC Proceedings.
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- Reading reflection
- Analysis Paper of Interview #2
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Week 9, Oct. 29: Argumentation and Metacognition |
- For PHYS131 & UNIV100 LAs: Schoenfeld, A. H. (1987). What’s all the fuss about metacognition? In A. H. Schoenfeld (Ed.), Cognitive science and mathematics education (pp. 189-215). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- For HLSC207 LAs: Jimenez-Aleixandre, M., Rodrigues, A., & Duschl, R. (2000). “Doing the lesson” or “doing science”: Argument in high school genetics. Science Education, 84, 757-792..
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- Reading reflection
- Field note #3
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Week 10, Nov. 5: Supporting Collaboration |
- Smith, M. K., Wood, W. B., Adams, W. K., Wieman, C., Knight, J. K., Guild, N., & Su, T. T. (2009). Why peer discussion improves student performance on in-class concept questions. Science, 323, 122-124.
- Barron, B. (2003). When smart groups fail. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 12(3), 307-359. 2 Excerpts ONLY: 1) Page 331 from "Case Analyses That Preserve Interactional Properties of Joint Work" to Page 337 where Case Examples 1 ends; & 2) Page 344 where Case Example 4 starts to the end of the first paragraph on page 350.
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- Reading reflection
- Reflection paper on teaching
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Week 11, Nov. 12: Goals in Science Education
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- Committee on Science Learning, R. A. Duschl, H. A. Schweingruber, and A. W. Shouse (Eds.) (2007). Chapter 2: Goals of Science Education. Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8. pp. 26-50.
- Public Talks & News articles: 1) Ken Robinson, How schools kill creativity, 2) Sugata Mitra, Kids can teach themselves, 3) Freeman Hrabowski, 4 pillars of college success in science, 4) Dan Pink, On motivation, 5) NYTimes, Top Colleges that enroll rich, middle class and poor, 6) ...more to come
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- Persuasively argue for the importance of 1-2 goals and the lack of importance of 1-2 goals.
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Week 12, Nov. 19: Modeling in Science Education
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- Svoboda, J. & Passmore, C. (2013). Strategies for Modeling in Biology Education. Science & Education, 22, pp. 119-142.
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- Reading reflection
- Draft of Poster (by class Wed.)
- Final Synthesis Paper (Due Saturday)
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Week 13, Nov. 26: NO CLASS
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None
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- SWOT Feedback for Course Instructors
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Week 14, Dec. 3:
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- Proofreading/Editing/Revising Final Posters
- Post-surveys (FMCE & Perceptions of Teaching)
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- Reading reflection
- Complete Draft of Poster (Due Tues by 1pm for feedback)
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Week 15, Dec. 10: Public Presentation |
None |
- Final Poster (by Sunday Dec. 7th)
- Poster presentation
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