Author:
Windschitl, Mark, author.
ImprintCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2018]
Descriptionviii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:A vision of ambitious science teaching -- Planning for engagement with big science ideas -- Talk as a tool for learning -- Encouraging more students to participate in talk -- Eliciting students' ideas -- Making thinking visible through models -- Allowing students to show what they know -- Supporting ongoing changes in thinking: introducing new ideas -- Supporting ongoing changes in thinking: activity and sense making -- Supporting ongoing changes in thinking: collective thinking -- Making and justifying claims in a science community -- Drawing together evidence-based explanations -- Organizing with colleagues to improve teaching -- Can we be ambitious every day?
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:The book is addressed to classroom science teachers, both beginning and experienced. It is a guide to using four core practices to improve instruction using Ambitious Science Teaching methods.-- Provided by publisher.
