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Exemplary science : best practices in professional development
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- Creator
- Robert Yager, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Arlington, Va. : NSTA Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 0873552563, 9780873552561
- OCLC
- ocm57366487
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- Implementing the Changes in Professional Development Programs Envisioned in The National Science Education Standards: Where Are We Eight Years Later? / Robert E. Yager -- Chapter 1.There is More to Science Than Meets The eye: A Collaborative Endeavor to Teach the Nature of Scientific Inquiry / Valarie L. Akerson and Deborah L. Hanusci -- Chapter 2. Bringing School Science to College: Modeling Inquiry in the Elementary Science Methods Course / Sondra Akins -- Chapter 3. Teams: Working Together To Improve Teacher Education / Dale Baker, Michael Piburn, and Douglas Clark -- Chapter 4. Exemplary Science: Best Practice in Science Teaching Today / Timothy Cooney and Cherin Lee -- Chapter 5. Facilitating Improvement Through Professional Development: Teachers Rising to the Occasion / Pradeep M. Dass -- Chapter 6. Contextual Teaching and Learning of Science / Shawn M. Glynn and Thomas R. Koballa, Jr. -- Chapter 7. Applying the National Science Education Standards in Alaska: Weaving Native Knowledge into Teaching and Learning Environmental Science Through Inquiry / Leslie S. Gordon, Elena B. Sparrow, and Sidney Stephens -- Chapter 8. Operation Chemistry: Where the Clocks Run by Orange Juice and the T-Shirts Are Never Bare / Paul Kelter, Jerry Walsh, and C. W. McLaughlin -- Chapter 9. Community Of Excellence: More Emphasis on Teacher Quality / Susan B. Koba and Carol T. Taylor Mitchell -- Chapter 10. Filling The Void In The Professional Development Continuum: Assisting Beginning Secondary Science Teachers / Julie A. Luft, Gillian H. Roehrig, and Nancy C. Patterson -- Chapter 11. Knowing and Teaching Science: Just Do It / Eddie Lunsford, Claudia T. Melear, and Leslie G. Hickok -- Chapter 12. Emphasizing Inquiry, Collaboration, and Leadership in K-12 Professional Development / Andrew J. Petto, Michael Patrick, and Raymond Kessel -- Chapter 13. The Oklahoma Science Project For Professional Development: The Road Taken / Philip M. Silverman -- Chapter 14. Professional Development Based on Conceptual Change: Wyoming TRIAD Process / Joseph I. Stepans, Barbara Woodworth Saigo, and Joan Gaston -- Chapter 15. Hey! What are Ya Thinking? Developing Teachers As Reflective Practitioners / Barbara S Spector, Ruth Burkett, and Cyndy Leard -- Chapter 16. Rethinking The Continuing Education of Science Teachers An Example of Transformative, Curriculum-Based Professional Development / Joseph A. Taylor, Janet Carlson Powell, David R. Van Dusen, Bill Pearson, Kim Bess, and Bonnie Schindler Endnote -- Successes and Continuing Challenges: Meeting the NSES Visions for Improving Professional Development Programs / Robert E. Yager