TEACHING OF SCIENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Curriculum and Instruction: Secondary Science Education MS Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine, critique, and build on our ideas about why we teach science and what it means to understands scientific concepts and practices. Audience: Graduate 2. Use insights from research and from our own experiences to shift from seeing the classroom like a student, to seeing the classroom like a teacher. Audience: Graduate 3. Construct an evolving understanding of several Core Teaching Practices, how they unfold in our own practice, and how they support sensemaking in science for all students. Audience: Graduate 4. Learn practical strategies for developing equitable learning goals and lesson plans, surfacing and responding to students' ideas, fostering productive student dialogue, assessing student progress towards our goals, and creating respectful relationships with students. Audience: Graduate 5. Begin developing an "inquiry stance" towards our own and others' teaching practices. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine, critique, and build on our ideas about why we teach science and what it means to understands scientific concepts and practices. Audience: Graduate 2. Use insights from research and from our own experiences to shift from seeing the classroom like a student, to seeing the classroom like a teacher. Audience: Graduate 3. Construct an evolving understanding of several Core Teaching Practices, how they unfold in our own practice, and how they support sensemaking in science for all students. Audience: Graduate 4. Learn practical strategies for developing equitable learning goals and lesson plans, surfacing and responding to students' ideas, fostering productive student dialogue, assessing student progress towards our goals, and creating respectful relationships with students. Audience: Graduate 5. Begin developing an "inquiry stance" towards our own and others' teaching practices. Audience: Graduate