Colten Collings

Biology Teacher. Biology (M.S.), Biology (B.S.), Science & Math Education (B.S.) tweets are my own opinion

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@ksliz22 No, it doesn’t. That’s the point though. Teach ed. programs (I was assuming you were saying college) are teaching inquiry as the key and primary way of instructing. However, I think may teachers understand that it is does not work or work well consistently.

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@ksliz22 All lesson plans in 5E.

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@ksliz22 Lesson planning was definitely there, but it was lesson planning inquiry instruction.

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@HeroicMrT At least, readily available for access.

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@HeroicMrT Everyday exclaimations that curriculum is the key, but then, there are no actual quality curriculum options…

[Olivia Mullins @oliviajune82]

Yes. If I were forced to use the curriculum programs given by our district I would be heavily modifing. Its only worse to use your own stuff if you are given something halfway decent in the first place.

I would rather see a hodgepodge of materials than OpenSciEd for example

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

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[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@SciInTheMaking @Mrpchemistry That’s the issue I have found. I’m at high school level biology.

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@tchrscurriculum Teacher is more important, but dismissing a quality curriculum would be silly.

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@SciInTheMaking @Mrpchemistry Any recommendations on science curriculum that is explicit instruction based?

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@dylanwiliam @tombennett71 SoL with an emphasis on examples and non- examples in context, concrete modeling, and practicing, that would be help. However, knowledge of something is often not enough to change practice.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Show me a school that serves disadvantaged students that gets excellent test scores (ie growth) that uses permissive behavior management methods and so-called progressive teaching approaches.

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@oliviajune82 High school science curricula

[Colten Collings @coltencollings]

@MrZachG Here is an issue: everyone pointing fingers, but I only feel like I can find the “inquiry curriculums” like open sci ed freely available. So if we want to make a change, we need curricula built different and easily accessible.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Wonderful blog on NGSS disillusion

https://t.co/g5ZWxzQZ6X

[Olivia Mullins @oliviajune82]

✅ Hands-on lessons and labs as part of explicit instruction

❌ Novices "figuring out" foundational information

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

This is one reason why it’s so critical for teachers to have a mental model of how learning happens. When you know for example that the overwhelming consensus of cognitive psychologists is that knowledge deeply encoded in long-term memory & readily accessible facilitates higher order thinking you should be instantly skeptical of, say, Boaler-esque research claiming to have found the opposite. You don’t have to dismiss it out of hand but your first reaction should be: that is very surprising & goes against consensus. Let me look closer…

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

@adamboxer1 The real danger of "when done well" is that many educational interventions require considerable teacher skill to do well, so looking only at the results of those teachers is cherry-picking the data. It looks like an intervention effect, but it's really a teacher quality effect.