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This book provides a theoretical basis and practical strategies to counter resistance to learning to teach for diversity (in culturally and gender-inclusive ways), and resistance to teaching for understanding (using student-centered and inquiry-based pedagogical approaches). Teacher educators from across the United States present rich narratives of their experiences in helping prospective and practicing teachers learn to teach for diversity and for understanding in a variety of mathematics and science contexts. Mathematics and science education has been slow to respond to issues of diversity and equity. Preparing Mathematics and Science Teachers for Diverse Classrooms: Promising Strategies for Transformative Pedagogy helps to begin a network for support and collaboration among teacher educators in science and mathematics who work for multicultural education and equity. A unique and much-needed contribution, this book is an essential resource for teacher educators, K-12 teachers who work as student teacher supervisors and cooperating teachers, and graduate students in mathematics and science education, and a compelling text for science and mathematics methods courses. Contents: Foreword. Preface. A.J. Rodriguez, Teachers' Resistance to Ideological and Pedagogical Change: Definitions, Theoretical Framework, and Significance. A.J. Rodriguez, Using Sociotransformative Constructivism to Respond to Teachers' Resistance to Ideological and Pedagogical Change. R.S. Kitchen, Making Equity and Multiculturalism Explicit to Transform Mathematics Education. M.B. Barnes, L.W. Barnes, Using Inquiry Processes to Investigate Knowledge, Skills, and Perceptions of Diverse Learners: An Approach to Working With Prospective and Current Science Teachers. J. Leonard, S.J. Dantley, Breaking Through the Ice: Dealing With Issues of Diversity in Mathematics and Science Education Courses. A. Luykx, P. Cuevas, J. Lambert, O. Lee, Unpacking Teachers' \"Resistance\" to Integrating Students' Language and Culture Into Elementary Science Instruction. T.K. Dunn, Engaging Prospective Teachers in Critical Reflection: Facilitating a Disposition to Teach Mathematics for Diversity. P.W.U. Chinn, \"Eh, Mus' Be Smart Class\": Race, Social Class, Language, and Access to Academic Resources. J. Moore, Transformative Mathematics Pedagogy: From Theory to Practice, Research, and Beyond. R. Yerrick, Seeing IT in the Lives of Children: Strategies for Promoting Equitable Practices Among Tomorrow's Science Teachers. J. Ensign, Helping Teachers Use Students' Home Cultures in Mathematics Lessons: Developmental Stages of Becoming Effective Teachers of Diverse Students. C. Brandt, Examining the \"Script\" in Science Education: Critical Literacy in the Classroom. \"Much has been written about teachers’ resistance to change and practices that \"work.\" In contrast to books that describe teachers’ experiences, Preparing Mathematics and Science Teachers for Diverse Classrooms: Promising Strategies for Transformative Pedagogy provides models that can be used by methods and content instructors to elicit conversations about supporting diverse students in the classroom. \"-- Jo Clay Olson, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education , July 2009

Towards Inclusion of All Learners through Science Teacher Education serves as a resource for teachers and teacher educators wishing to understand how to educate students with exceptionalities in science by connecting their experiences to leading experts.

This book provides essays and annotated bibliographies on teaching social issues. It aims to be a resource for students, educators, and teachers. The book covers various topics, including key theories, models, and strategies for addressing social issues in education, with recommendations and foundational works.

\"What kind of social studies knowledge can stimulate a critical and ethical dialog with the past and present? \"Re-Membering\" History in Student and Teacher Learning answers this question by explaining and illustrating a process of historical recovery that merges Afrocentric theory and principles of culturally informed curricular practice to reconnect multiple knowledge bases and experiences. In the case studies presented, K-12 practitioners, teacher educators, preservice teachers, and parents use this praxis to produce and then study the use of democratized student texts; they step outside of reproducing standard school experiences to engage in conscious inquiry about their shared present as a continuance of a shared past. This volume exemplifies not only why instructional materials--including most so-called multicultural materials--obstruct democratized knowledge, but also takes the next step to construct and then study how \"re-membered\" student texts can be used. Case study findings reveal improved student outcomes, enhanced relationships between teachers and families and teachers and students, and a closer connection for children and adults to their heritage\"-- Provided by publisher.

The arrival of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) makes it the ideal time to kick-start your professional development program, and this ambitious book is the perfect source of inspiration to help you do so. The book’s emphasis is on developing highly effective teachers who are expected to improve student achievement in STEM education; its focus is on research-based models underlying systemic reform efforts across the nation. The book highlights several successful programs and provides forward-looking insights into the needed professional development surrounding the NGSS.

Each new headline about American students' poor performance in math and science leads to new calls for reform in teaching. Education Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology puts the whole picture together by synthesizing what we know about the quality of math and science teaching, drawing conclusions about why teacher preparation needs reform, and then outlining recommendations for accomplishing the most important goals before us. As a framework for addressing the task, the book advocates partnerships among school districts, colleges, and universities, with contributions from scientists, mathematicians, teacher educators, and teachers. It then looks carefully at the status of the education reform movement and explores the motives for raising the bar for how well teachers teach and how well students learn. Also examined are important issues in teacher professionalism: what teachers should be taught about their subjects, the utility of in-service education, the challenge of program funding, and the merits of credentialing. Professional Development Schools are reviewed and vignettes presented that describe exemplary teacher development practices.

This text summarizes the theory, research and practice related to pedagogical content knowledge. The audience is provided with a functional understanding of the basic tenets of the construct as well as its applications to research on science teacher education and the development of science teacher education programmes. The authors are prominent educators representing a variety of subject matter areas at primary and secondary levels. Although the focus of the text is science education, it should provide useful reading for any individuals with interests in professional teacher education.