About this site ...
These resources are part of a system of tools and tool-based practices for early career and pre-service secondary science teachers that support transitions from novice to expert-like pedagogical reasoning and practice. These tools include:
* a video-based learning progression for teaching Model-Based Inquiry,
* discourse guides for core conversations in classrooms,
* rapid assessment models to tap student thinking,
* rubrics to evaluate students' abilities to construct evidence-based explanations in science, and
* a suite of resources that help groups of teachers collect and analyze their own students' work, in order to advance their instruction.
Our proposed system of tools will serve as a model for making early career teacher training and induction clearly focused on student learning. This system of tools is designed to be responsive to all students in the classroom.
