Fostering Student Understanding in the Science Classroom

Catalog description

& Spring In this course, Relay students will learn how to develop students’ discourse skills through creating collaborative structures and sequencing probing questions during small- and whole-group sensemaking. After learning how to plan a monitoring key to collect data during sensemaking, they will build expertise in selecting tech tools and structuring the sensemaking process to foster students’ development of discipline/domain-specific vocabulary. Relay students will deepen their understanding of the importance of science misconceptions in planning and implementing science lessons; they will use their own understanding of science concepts alongside their understanding of their students’ misconceptions to strategically plan rigorous and illuminating formative assessments. They will then respond to the data gathered from these assessments to make adjustments to their instruction and provide culturally responsive, effective feedback to their students.