@eveimanz Eve, Michelle Salgado, one of our doc students, was in a kinder classroom having kids study how someone little can bump someone big off the end of a playground slide. One girl argued that forces like gravity and friction work "like a family" to cause motion.
@Dora_Kastel @dtcampbe Our idea with interactive direct instruciton was that there are many science ideas that are not "discoverable" by students, no matter how many activities they do or how much they explore data--think of alleles, chem equilibrium, niches in bio...
@mbraaten Speaking of teacher-tired, we're putting together a website for mentors and teacher candidatesβone of the buckets of resources is self-care during the clinical experience. If anyone has self-care or wellness resources of any kind, we need them!! https://t.co/MUI4GCQZkF
@dtcampbe @JessicaATP I like the focus on sense-making, it helps draw in such a wide range of educators who are interested in supporting that from lots of different angles (curriculum, discourse, science practices, responsiveness to students' ideas) -- lots of "ways in."
And thank you Dr. Tara OβNeill & Dr. Kirsten Mawyer for book review in Teacher College Record (August 2018) of the Ambitious Science Teaching book. Crtitique about "Whose knowledge counts?" is real and something we'll pay attention to.