Methods & Strategies: Responsive Teaching and High-Stakes Testing

by: Jennifer Radoff, Amy D. Robertson, Sharon Fargason, and Fred Goldberg

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This article focuses on responsive teaching, an instructional approach where the teacher seeks to understand the substance of students’ ideas, to find “seeds of science” within students’ thinking, and to build instruction on the basis of students’ ideas.

Grade Levels

Elementary

Topics

Curriculum Equity New Science Teachers NGSS Pedagogy Physical Science Preservice Science Education Professional Learning Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Details

Type Journal ArticlePub Date 7/1/2018Stock # sc18_055_09_88Volume 055Issue 09

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