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F a c e s o f R e f o r m |
| Pamela Fraser-Abder |
| Title: |
Bridging the Gap Between Schools and Non-formal Science Institutions |
| Course: |
E14.2050: New York City's Non-Formal Resources to Teach Science |
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"(This course combines) theory, practical application and using the city as a 'living lab' teeming with educational and instructional resources...." |
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| David J. Leveson |
| Title: |
A New Science Course for Elementary Teachers |
| Course: |
General Science 10: Multidisciplinary Topics in the Natural, athematical and Computer Sciences |
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"Student Scientists "investigated topics such as: buoyancy, the sphericity of the earth, isostasy, the deformation of solids, crystallography, volcanology." |
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| Eleanor Miele |
| Title: |
Partnership to Improve Science Teaching |
| Course: |
Education 38: Science, Mathematics, and Technology in the Elementary Classroom |
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"students' work on science teaching methods was enhanced by the depth of experience that they brought to the classroom from their own constructivist experiences in the general science course." |
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| Michael Sobel |
| Title: |
Modeling School Science Classrooms at the College Level |
| Course: |
General Science 9: for N-6 Elementary Education Majors |
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"These courses provide a realistic model of a science research lab where student-scientists (learn that) science is fundamentally theory-based." |
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| Rochelle Ring |
| Title: |
Innovations in Mathematics College Teaching |
| Course: |
Mathematics 185: Basic Ideas in Mathematics |
| Quote: |
"Students were required to submit weekly writing exercises; journal entries, solutions to 'communication-type' problems, explanations of fictitious student errors and explanations of material from the class activities." |
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| David Stone |
| Title: |
Building Self Confidence in Students' Understanding of Mathematics Education |
| Course: |
Mathematics 1.95: Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint |
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"Demonstrating a style of pedagogy in which theories and formulae grow out of the results of observation, as a way of summarizing and of accounting for them." |
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| Kerry Cunningham and Elizabeth Sweeney |
| Title: |
Teacher Preparation Students Experience in the Realities of Classroom Life |
| Course: |
E12.1023-1024: Teaching Elementary School Mathematics I and II |
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"By learning in an actual elementary classroom, the students see mathematics teaching and learning in the same context in which they will eventually work." |
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| Rosamond Welchman |
| Title: |
Paired Courses Use Portfolio Assessment to Promote Reflection about Teaching and Learning Mathematics |
| Course: |
Education 44: Teaching Mathematics
Mathematics 1.97: Mathematics in Education |
| Quote: |
"The work of the Portfolio committee was grounded in the realities of urban schools and fueled by the contexts of various reform efforts in NYC through the input of adjunct faculty." |
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| Barry Cherkas |
| Title: |
Altering Beliefs About the Nature of Mathematics |
| Course: |
Math 295 (UG): Sequential Mathematics from an Advanced Perspective
Math 620 (MA): High School Math from an Advanced Viewpoint |
| Quote: |
"We avoided giving recipes to solve problems; students had to create their own." |
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| Marc Lazarus and Katina Lotakis |
| Title: |
Reformed Course Transmits the Excitement of Learning Chemistry |
| Course: |
Chemistry 136: Elements of Chemistry |
| Quote: |
"The opening part of the course is designed to develop an appreciation of careful obseervation and the proper language for recording these observations." |
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| Joseph G. Griswold and Daniel E. Lemons |
| Title: |
Hands-on Biomechanics Curriculum for Integrated High School Science |
| Course: |
Biology 322 and 333: Human Anatomy and Physiology |
| Quote: |
"...curriculum is designed for collaborative, inquiry-based learning, and the activities include assessment of strength in various events, quantitative experiments with the biomechanical models, problem solving, and a variety of innovative methods for assessment." |
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| Neville Kammenbach |
| Title: |
New Models of Instruction in a Large Course for Non-Science Majors |
| Course: |
V55.0203 Natural Science 1: Energy and Environment |
| Quote: |
"The role of teaching scholars as developers and laboratory observers has proven to be a major factor in the process of improving the labs." |
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| Brian Murfin |
| Title: |
A Summer Mathematics, Science and Technology Program |
| Course: |
E36.1003: Microcomputer Applications in Mathematics and Science Instruction |
| Quote: |
"All activities involve inquiry-based, hands-on active learning... secondary students carry out individual and group research projects that are then placed on the project website." |
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| Leonard Ciaccio and James Sanders |
| Title: |
A Collaborative Laboratory on Course Reform |
| Quote: |
"What began as specfic exercises by high school students in a science lab in the hands of pre-service, in-service, and college level teachers became a laboratory in a much larger sense, a laboratory on effective teaching and learning." |
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| Tiffany A. O'Keefe |
| Title: |
Mentor Network |
| Quote: |
"I was able to gain an enormous amount of knowledge about what it takes to be a great teacher." |
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| Christina Messano-Giordano |
| Title: |
The Children's Science Materials Workshop: A Student Internship Program |
| Quote: |
"The workshops were conducted in a constructivist manner and incorporated hands-on, minds-on activities that foster critical thinking, problem solving skills, and the discovery of big ideas/concepts." |
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| Carol Kehr Tittle |
| Title: |
A New Strtegy in Formative Evaluation: Using Faculty Case Studies to Support Collaboration |
| Quote: |
"case studies... were used both as an evaluation tool and as a vehicle to promote the collaborative process." |
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