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Direct linkRebecca R. Lesnefsky; Troy D. Sadler; David Fortus – Research in Science Education, 2025
In response to the growing emphasis on addressing global socio-scientific issues like climate change and viral pandemics in K-12 education, we designed three socio-scientific units for middle school science. We call this curriculum Grand Challenges (GC). The GC curriculum shifts from traditional methods to a focus on socio-scientific issues that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Innovation, Secondary School Science
Aranda, Maurina L.; Lie, Richard; Selcen Guzey, S.; Makarsu, Murat; Johnston, Amanda; Moore, Tamara J. – Research in Science Education, 2020
Recent science education reforms highlight the importance for teachers to implement effective instructional practices that promote student learning of science and engineering content and their practices. Effective classroom discussion has been shown to support the learning of science, but work is needed to examine teachers' enactment of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Middle School Teachers, Science Curriculum, Genetics
Wei, Bing – Research in Science Education, 2020
This paper reports an empirical study of teacher development in the process of implementing an integrated science curriculum in a junior high school in China. Six science teachers with different subject backgrounds were invited to participate in this study. A pragmatic model of teacher learning that includes both cognitive and situated-learning…
Descriptors: Junior High School Teachers, Faculty Development, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation
