Colin Costello

Teacher - Learner - Science Education - Hartland

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

@NGSS_tweeps Actually have Ts do an NGSS lesson sequence as Ss. I think an immersion experience of what NGSS should look and feel like as a student is a foundation to understanding the shifts that need to happen.

[Jessica Ashley @joy_everyday]

ALL Michigan Elementary Teachers -- We want to hear about your science needs! Help to ensure we have data from all corners of our state to shape our #MiSciPLN efforts for supporting elementary science. Survey time - less than 10 min! https://t.co/ySIA2QSQml

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

@JChodos Love radiolab. These types of stories are when they are at there best. So many themes to unpack but so engaging and relevant too!

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

@Leahbbarton @AMTAteachers Just saw this, but I have seen some teachers require their high flyers to only ask questions and cannot give answers. Others have them plant mistakes and incorporate it into a mistake game of sorts so the rest of the class can't just accept that Ss answers.

[Spencer Martin @SciEdSpence]

The work that I have been doing for the last 3 years around the #NGSS has firmly convinced me that, as science teachers, we really need to STOP teaching by frontloading vocabulary. Vocab is a shortcut to describe concepts, not the concept itself. (Is this different for ELL Ss?)

[The Standards-Based Classroom @SBclassroom]

Standards-Based Learning in 10 Tweets: A tiny primer that completely oversimplifies a complex (& difficult) shift in teaching & learning. @CorwinPress @MastTranscript @nacol @AMLE @educationweek @TG2Chat @VTEducation @LearningForward

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

How does representing the same data set in a variety of ways lend itself to making sense of a phenomenon? What sort os discussions does this allow us to have with our students? #modbio #mimodelinginstruction

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

#modbio participants making sense of how to construct and deploy models on populations and interactions

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

What happens when two populations of species are competing for the same resources? Does this graph shape hold true for closed or open systems? What are our assumptions if we think it does? Do all species interacting like this exhibit competitive exclusion? #modbio

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

Once you have a model to decide what's living, what comes next? How can you represent further classifications? What can we classify down to? What makes that last classification so unique? Why does this make my brain hurt!? #mimodbio #modelinginstruction

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

@mrstokes24 Yes it is!

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

So it begins, #modbio one in Marquette! #mimodelinginstruction What makes something living?

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

How do you know if you actually had a good day teaching? https://t.co/go2qpeE0Et

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

@rooneychem Those are thinking faces @rooneychem haha

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

@NellBielecki @CindyWarber #nelledit 😂

[Don Pata @mr_pata]

This is old news to many but important news to all. Learning Styles is not a thing! Students and parents are using is as an excuse to not learn. "I can't learn it that way because I'm a (fill in blank) learner..." is BS. Our job is to teach kids to Learn how to Learn in all ways.

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

@NellBielecki @Noelle22S Where do you get your images from?

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

@GSkites @CMorrisonThomas @OaklandSchools @CarbonTIME The triangle!

[Colin Costello @Mr_Costello11]

Where do punnet squares come from? #modbio