Exemplary Science teaching is:
- Teaching science in a way that all students will stay engaged in the lesson or experiment.
- Using strategies that will allow a large amount of student understanding and comprehension.
- Increasing the amount of student involvement and encouraging all students to participate in all classroom activities and experiments.
- Maintaining a positive and inviting learning environment.
Exemplary teaching can be incorporated into classrooms in a few ways such as:
- Inquiry or investigation, leads to all students asking questions and also leads to students trying to figure out the answers to the questions. Curiosity of students is what drives learning.
- Discussion, will help engage all students in the classroom and allows students to be in charge of the topics being discussed .
- Exploration, allows for students to have hands on activity which allows them to think critically and really learn the main objectives.
- Focusing on the students, will allow them to feel more accomplished in the classroom which encourages more learning in the classroom.
- Based on all of the above, student based learning will be the most effective way of exemplary teaching.
Having hands on experiments or exploration will lead to a way more engaged and active classroom!
Please view the tweet to see strategies for small group and class discussion!
Strategies for facilitating small group and whole class conversations with students in grades 3 to 12. https://t.co/zMuHGgheju pic.twitter.com/PTdEiYNV4B
— edutopia (@edutopia) September 5, 2018
Examples of lessons with exemplary teaching:
- A lesson with exemplary teaching could be allowing students to create their own experiments testing how the buoyancy and displacement is affected by different liquids.
- Another lesson would be allowing students to design an experiment that they’ve always wanted to do.
- Allow students to pick related discussion topics and encourage them to engage 100%.
As teachers we need to remember that we need to “do science” rather than just memorizing it!
After going through what it means to be an exemplary teacher a few words really stick out to me!
I truly liked how to the point your article was. I especially loved your supplement, The quotes at the beginning are super salient to me, as well as the wordle at the end. In your video the high school teacher teaches 4 subjects a day and I just truly couldn’t imagine. In a small, potentially low income school, what advice do you have for making exemplary teaching “worth it”?
The only advice I could give them is to let the progress of the students speak for how successful exemplary teaching could and will be in a small low income school!