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Title: Cross-Disciplinary High School Teacher Professional Development Presentation for DIMACS Conference 04/29/05


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Cross-Disciplinary High School Teacher
Professional DevelopmentPresentation for DIMACS
Conference 04/29/05
  • Linda J. Morris
  • Science Curriculum Coordinator
  • Jeffco Schools, Golden, CO.
  • ljmorris_at_jeffco.k12.co.us

2
Paradigm Shift
  • High School Teachers
  • Students
  • Parents
  • Core Structures of High Schools
  • Curriculum
  • Professional Development of Teachers

3
3 Central Principles of Effective Instruction
  • How Students Learn History, Mathematics, and
    Science in the Classroom, National Research
    Council, 2005.
  • How People Learn Brain, Mind, Experience, and
    School, National Research Council, 1999.

4
Principle 1
  • Address students initial understanding and
    preconceptions about topics.
  • Lionni, Leo. Fish is Fish, Alfred A.Knopf, Inc.,
    NY, 1970.

5
Principle 2
  • Provide a foundation of factual/procedural
    knowledge and conceptual understanding.
  • Annenberg, Minds of Our Own Lessons From Thin
    Air, 1997.

6
Principle 3
  • Implement teaching strategies to help students
    take control of their learning.
  • Problem solving and inquiry strategies
  • Metacognitive strategies

7
Curriculum
  • get students hooked on mathematically
    fascinating biological problems early
  • Lynn Arthur Steen
  • http//chronicle.com

8
Evaluating Instructional Materials
  • Genes, Environment, and Human Behavior, BSCS,
    2000.
  • Bioinformatics and the Human Genome Project,
    BSCS, 2003.
  • www.bscs.org
  • Funding- Department of Energy
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