Science In-Between

In this episode, we debate the concept of dispositions in teacher education. In our discussion, we reference the 2020 NSTA Standards for Science Teacher Preparation and some dispositional documents available on the Penn State College of Educaiton website.

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This week we talk about facilitating different kinds of conversations we engage in because we teach people who teach people. And now in our professional learning work, we are teaching people who are teaching people who are going to teach people science. Lots of layers to this episode.

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In this episode, we discuss some recent research on epistemic agency in science education. The list includes:

Miller, E., Manz, E., Russ, R., Stroupe, D., & Berland, L. (2018). Addressing the epistemic elephant in the room: Epistemic agency and the next generation science standards. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 55(7), 1053-1075. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tea.21459

Krist, C., Machaka, N., Voss, D., Mathayas, N., Kelly, S., & Shim, S. Y. (2023). Teacher Noticing for Supporting Students’ Epistemic Agency in Science Sensemaking Discussions. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1-21. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1046560X.2022.2155355

Zhang, J., Tian, Y., Yuan, G., & Tao, D. (2022). Epistemic agency for costructuring expansive knowledge‐building practices. Science Education, 106(4), 890-923. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.21717

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This week we talk about minds and how you change them. Specifically, we talk about the introduction to David McRaney's 2022 book How Minds Change.

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In this episode, we revisit the concept of agency and discuss how it applies to students, classrooms, schools, and learning.

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This week we return to Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education (CRSE) and expand to Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching.

Podcast Bros in th NewYork Times

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching - Peter Licona, Elizabethtown University

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In this episode, we discuss Pennsylvania's new teaching competencies for Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education and how they apply to our roles as science teachers.

Culturally-Relevant and Sustaining Education (CR-SE) Program Framework Guidelines

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This week we talk about where to begin with doing Ambitious Science Teaching and how there are no silver bullets to making a change in practice. We talk about how difficult and slow changes in practice are, but that we need to think deeply about the models that are the foundation of learning to be able to know how to change.

Episode 44: All the Hammers - Discussion of Brown, Collins, andn Duguid (1989)

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In this episode, Scott and Ollie discuss the differences between hands-on/minds-on science, discovery learning, inquiry-based instruction, and phenomenon-based science learning.

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This week we talk about personal knowledge management and how we don't manage it as well as we would like. The question is about how do you manage all the infomation that you take in from so many sources (books, websites, journal articles, podcasts, etc.) and keep track of your thinking about them (notes, highlights, connections between these things) in a way that help be a sort of outboard brain. We have no answers, but we have lots of shared struggles.

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