In this episode, Scott and Ollie discuss the importance of curricular planning and discuss how big ideas, anchoring events, and storylines can inform the process. For help with curricular planning, check out the Ambitious Science Teaching website.

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This week we talk about closure at the end of lessons and what might be an alternative to closing things down.

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In this episode, Scott and Ollie discuss the evolution of the concept of "scientific literacy" since the introduction of Project 2016 introduced Science for All Americans in the early 1990s.

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This week we talk about how teaching (science) teachers can be like teaching science and how it is different. We talk about the apprenticeship of observation, the two worlds problem, teacher reflection, and making models of teaching. Plus, we shake our fist at something else briefly, not just clouds.

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In this episode, Scott and Ollie discuss how to frame observations of classrooms. Scott introduces two framing questions which provides a guide to consider what different classroom practices engender and communicate.

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This week we did only joys. We chose one thing that brought us joy from a group of different categories.

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Phone App

Game

TV Show

Movie

Book

Album

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In this episode, Scott and Ollie discuss how we approach "correct answers" in science classrooms and whether anything is really "right."

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This week we talk about the long overlooked (by us) context of informal science education. We talk about what it means and how it is the same or different from more traditional formal science education (i.e. classroom science teaching).

Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits

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In this episode, Scott and Ollie talk about the international STEM education and what we can learn (if anything) from the assessment-based comparisons. In the conversation, we draw on data from the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)

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This week we talk about direct instruction and what role it takes in ambitious forms of teaching.

Ambitious Science Teaching by Windschitl, Thompson, and Braaten

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