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Brandon M. Butler; Stephen R. Burgin; Mark M. Diacopoulos; William J. McConnell – Action in Teacher Education, 2025
Teaching controversial issues poses challenges for teacher candidates, stemming from apprehensions about potential backlash and gaps in content and pedagogical knowledge. The prevailing emphasis on tested subjects such as mathematics and reading/writing in elementary school education often sidelines social studies and science, limiting…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Jeremy Stoddard; Jais Brohinsky; Jason A. Chen; Derek Behnke; M. Shane Tutwiler; Janice Robbins – Grantee Submission, 2025
This paper explores how PurpleState, a political simulation designed to foster skills and knowledge for informed civic participation, develops students' abilities to counter or resist the effects of political polarization and partisanship. Throughout the simulation, which has been implemented in Virginia and Wisconsin, students are asked to…
Descriptors: Simulation, Political Attitudes, Political Science, Teaching Methods
Amenkhienan, Ehichoya; Smith, Edward J. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2006
Variation and polymorphism are concepts that are central to genetics and genomics, primary biological disciplines in which high school students and undergraduates require a solid foundation. From 1998 through 2002, a web-based genetics education program was developed for high school teachers and students. The program included an exercise on using…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Science Instruction, Internet

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