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In this professional development video from Getting Results, Dr. John Bransford, professor of education at the University of Washington School of Education, as well as instructors and students from an aquarium science class, talk about how to make course content relevant through first-hand...

This video, made available by Mt. San Antonio College, provides an overview of the STEM Teacher Preparation program at Mt. San Antonio College. The program, a result of a collaboration between Mt. San Antonia College and the University of California Irvine, provides an opportunity for aspiring math...

Although the case method has been used for years to teach law, business, and medicine, it is not common in science. Yet the use of case studies holds great promise as a pedagogical technique for teaching science, particularly to undergraduates, because it humanizes science and well illustrates...

This article explores the origins and patterns of student resistance to active and cooperative learning, and suggested ways to deal with the resistance.

In this resource provided by DeafTEC, the PacerSpacer resource is described in detail and recommended to instructors with deaf and hard of hearing students in their classrooms. The purpose of the software is to allow adequate time for students for students to read the slides before the instructor...

This resource, from SRI International, is an on-line, standards-based, resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks. The resources are "collected from numerous sources, include student...

This paper, from Larry Flick at Oregon State University and Randy Bell from the University of Virginia, covers technology use in science classrooms. The following guidelines for using technology in science teacher preparation are introduced and discussed: 1) Technology should be introduced in the...

"How can I get my students to think?" is a question asked by many faculty, regardless of their disciplines. Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method that challenges students to "learn to learn," working cooperatively in groups to seek solutions to real world problems. These problems...

This best practices guide from FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence, offers advice on planning and holding professional development workshops for educators in the ATE community. The 24 page guide begins with the workshop planning process, including advice on...

Lesson Description: This lesson is the fifth of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. This lesson is a contextualized application for Pythagorean theorem, starting with students working in groups to create...