Challenges in Teaching Science in K to 12
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The document outlines 10 principles of effective teaching: 1) Care about helping students succeed and set high expectations, 2) Understand students but still expect good behavior and work, 3) Be clear about learning goals and share them with students, 4) Teach foundational knowledge and promote deep understanding, 5) Gradually release responsibility to students and provide support, 6) Provide feedback to help students improve, 7) Involve peer learning activities, 8) Manage behavior to support learning, 9) Regularly evaluate your impact on students, and 10) Continually seek to improve teaching practices. It then prompts discussion of challenges in teaching science and strategies effective teachers use to overcome them.
Challenges in Teaching Science in K to 12
- 1. *CHALLENGES IN TEACHING SCIENCE IN K TO 12 PROGRAM
- 2. TEN PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING 1. CARE ABOUT HELPING YOUR STUDENTS TO DO THE BEST THAT THEY CAN - Effective teachers are passionate about helping their students to learn. They form warm and caring relationships with their students. However, they also set high expectations, and they demand that their students meet them. This leads to a situation where the teacher and the students are working together towards a common goal-helping every child to learn as much as they can.
- 3. *2. UNDERSTAND BUT DON’T EXCUSE YOUR STUDENTS - Effective teachers seek to understand their students, but so do most teachers. The difference is that effective teachers still expect each of their students to behave and achieve well. Effective teachers use their understanding to adjust their approach to teaching, but they did not use it to excuse misbehaviour, poor effort or lack of real academic progress.
- 4. *3. BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT YOUR STUDENTS TO LEARN - Effective teachers are clear about what they want their students to learn and they share this with their students. Everyone understands what success entails. They then work towards developing the understanding and skills their students need to demonstrate that they mastered the material.
- 5. *4. DISSEMINATE SURFACE KNOWLEDGE AND PROMOTE DEEP LEARNING - Effective teachers want their students to be able to think critically and to develop a deep understanding of the material being taught in class. However, they recognize developing this deep understanding requires sharing a foundational set of knowledge and skills. Armed with this, teachers can help students to develop a deep understanding of the topic at hand.
- 6. *5. GRADUALLY RELEASE RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEARNING - Effective teachers do not ask their students to perform tasks that they have not shown their students how to do. Rather, they start by modeling what students need to do. Then they ask their students to have a go themselves, while being available to help as needed.
- 7. *6. GIVE YOUR STUDENTS FEEDBACK - Effective teachers give dollops of feedback. This feedback tells students how they are going and gives them information about how they could improve. Without feedback, students are likely to continue holding misconceptions and making errors. Feedback allows students to adjust their understanding and efforts before it is too late.
- 8. *7. INVOLVE STUDETS IN LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER - Effective teachers supplement teacher-led. Individual learning, with activities that involve students in learning from each other. When done well strategies such as cooperative learning, competition and peer tutoring can be quite powerful.
- 9. *8. MANAGE YOUR STUDENTS BEHAVIOUR - Effective teachers know that students behaviour can help or hinder how much students learn in the classroom. They implement strategies that nurture positive behaviour and minimize misbehaviour.
- 10. *9. EVALUATE THE IMPACT YOU ARE HAVING ON YOUR STUDENTS - Effective teachers regularly assess student progress, and they then use this insight to evaluate the impact they are having on their students.
- 11. *10. CONTINUE LEARNING WAYS THAT YOU CAN BE OF EVEN MORE HELP TO STUDENTS - Effective teachers love learning and are always seeking to improve their own practices. They seek out evidence-based insights, and they are happy to challenge their existing beliefs about teaching.
- 12. GROUP ACTIVITY TASK 1: Think of some challenges you encounter in teaching science. TASK 2: As an effective teacher, what did you do to overcome those challenges?