5 things to know in July 2023 New STEM Teaching Tool: Guide to Gathering and Using Feedback From Learners
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Educators can use practical measures to quickly capture and analyze data from their students and use the data to reflect on their science teaching practices and plan for next steps. This can help foster equitable learning opportunities by making educators more aware of how learners are feeling about and making sense of their learning experiences. This STEM Teaching Tool provides guidance for designing, implementing, and analyzing practical measures in today’s science classrooms and shares examples of different types of practical measures that have been used with students, teachers, and implementation teams to sense progress. See STEM Teaching Tool Practice Brief 94 here and the associated guide here.
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Let High School Science Teachers Know They’re Not Alone
This EdReports article highlights the challenges high school science teachers have faced, particularly with the lack of
high-quality instructional materials and three ways reviews of high school science programs can be used to overcome those challenges.
See the article here.