Background/Question/Methods How can teachers use insights and tools from learning progressions to... more Background/Question/Methods How can teachers use insights and tools from learning progressions to improve their environmental science teaching? We addressed this question in the Culturally Relevant Ecology: Learning Progressions and Environmental Literacy Math Science Partnership project at 4 LTER sites over the past 6 years. We carried out research with thousands of MS and HS students, using interviews and written assessments, to describe their understandings in 3 areas: 1) water movement and substances in water, 2) carbon cycling and ecosystems, and 3) biodiversity and evolution. Responses were coded into four distinctive levels that represent a learning progression towards principle- and evidence-based reasoning. Several hundred teachers participated in professional development workshops aimed at helping them understand and use learning progressions in their classrooms. Instructional units crafted to help students through the transitions among the levels were provided to the teac...
Background/Question/Methods How can teachers use insights and tools from learning progressions to... more Background/Question/Methods How can teachers use insights and tools from learning progressions to improve their environmental science teaching? We addressed this question in the Culturally Relevant Ecology: Learning Progressions and Environmental Literacy Math Science Partnership project at 4 LTER sites over the past 6 years. We carried out research with thousands of MS and HS students, using interviews and written assessments, to describe their understandings in 3 areas: 1) water movement and substances in water, 2) carbon cycling and ecosystems, and 3) biodiversity and evolution. Responses were coded into four distinctive levels that represent a learning progression towards principle- and evidence-based reasoning. Several hundred teachers participated in professional development workshops aimed at helping them understand and use learning progressions in their classrooms. Instructional units crafted to help students through the transitions among the levels were provided to the teac...
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