In this session, we will explore strategies for eliciting, identifying, and appreciating the range of intellectual resources students use as they make sense of phenomena.

TAKEAWAYS:
This session will help leaders work directly with educators to better appreciate students’ multiple ways of knowing and better shape instruction to support diverse sense-making through science and engineering practices.

SPEAKERS:
Angela Kolonich (Minnesota Department of Education: Minneapolis, MN), Tiffany Neill (Research Scientist: Oklahoma City, OK), Philip Bell (University of Washington: Seattle, WA)

In this session leaders will explore a protocol for identifying and attending to facets of student thinking from formative assessments. The protocol can be used to assist educators in recognizing, building on, and responding to the range of ideas—or Facets of students’ thinking—during instruction.

TAKEAWAYS:
Students bring a range of intellectual and cultural resources, which they have accumulated in their unique life experiences, into the classroom as they learn science. These resources can be considered different “facets” of student thinking.

SPEAKERS:
Ricky Scott (Tooele County School District), Philip Bell (University of Washington: Seattle, WA), Tiffany Neill (Research Scientist: Oklahoma City, OK)