The readings for this course have emphasized the importance of teaching literacy in the different content areas. As the readings suggest, this practice will arm students with the necessary skills for them to be able to engage with the text-in any discipline-in meaningful ways. Along the same lines, it is important that educators model for students how to think mathematically, scientifically, historically, etc. I had the opportunity to observe a freshman biology class. From the first day, I knew that this teacher understood the importance of teaching students how to think scientifically. She started her class by having something called “Community Call,” a sort of bell ringer. These community calls were problems that a person or scientist from the community was trying to understand or study. These prompts were always connected to the concepts of the unit, the lesson, and the students’ lives. The teacher gave the students time to read it and identify specific structures of the experimental design in that prompt, such as independent variable, dependent variable, constants, and hypothesis. I believe this practice was very impactful as it was teaching students how to approach scientific reading (research paper, experiment, and lab report). This practice also helped students meet the science and engineering practices requirement for Next Generation Science Standards.
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