{"id":1030,"date":"2018-09-12T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt431-531\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2018-09-12T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:22:47","slug":"the-road-less-traveled-exemplary-science-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/2018\/09\/the-road-less-traveled-exemplary-science-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Less Traveled: Exemplary Science Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Who was your favorite teacher?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/E6-8Z0lwKik\/maxresdefault.jpg?resize=494%2C278&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Image result for monsters inc scream mike\" width=\"494\" height=\"278\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This question used to scare me. Haunt me really. What am I supposed to say? Surely, my friends would laugh if I told them I loved my Chemistry teacher, no one can relate to that. The shackles of maintaining some dumb made-up social reputation always limited what I said about my teachers. Only until now, as a college\u00a0<em>senior<\/em>\u00a0education major, I can proudly shout from the rooftops that I loved my science teacher. She did something that other teachers seldom did; fed my curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>But wait&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Science is supposed to be awful.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201306\/Monsters3.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for scary monsters inc\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FALSE. Science is a fun and it&#8217;s how we interpret the wonderful world and universe we live on and in. But what made me so fascinated, why do I like this subject so much? As a student becoming some other student&#8217;s teacher, I now know what my science teacher was doing right.<\/p>\n<p>She:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inquired Students<\/li>\n<li>Provoked Critical Thinking<\/li>\n<li>Offered Various ways to engage students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>And what is this?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot of things jumbled into a simple term.<\/p>\n<p>She <em>exemplary taught&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/7f\/3e\/3e\/7f3e3e9435b2da04b68f588f5b6e7eda.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Image result for awful monsters inc\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scratch that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She exhibited <strong>Exemplary Teaching.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inquiring students gets them super engaged, and when looking back at the times I had in Mrs. Rettig&#8217;s Chemistry class I&#8217;m sure she thought along the same lines as Michael Stevens from this Ted Talk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why do we ask questions? Michael &quot;Vsauce&quot; Stevens at TEDxVienna\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9hauSrihYQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;One of the best ways to gain attentive listeners, is not to be who you think your audience wants you to be, but instead to say and make and show things that allow your audience or, your students, to be who they want to be&#8221; -Michael Stevens<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Critical thinking is essential to understanding a topic. Science should be the epitome of critically thinking about the world around you, however, some science students probably experience the exact opposite, an easy, busy-work driven A. How can we inspire critical thinking and make sure we&#8217;re not the latter? This video brings up a really cool point, we can&#8217;t learn if we&#8217;re convinced we know it already.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;If you think you know everything, you can&#039;t learn anything&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9AzW-Lyz5o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think this video actually shows us as teachers to come into classrooms also having an open, setting the example to critically think will set the precedent for our students to follow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Differentiated instruction also goes hand in hand with exemplary teaching. Differentiated instrcution is the individualized approach to give students more of a range of options for class projects, papers, and\/or presentations.\n<ul>\n<li>Some common Pros of Differentiated Instruction:\n<ul>\n<li>Lets not only the student&#8217;s be creative, but the teachers as well<\/li>\n<li>Allows for flexibility with assignments<\/li>\n<li>Each student can follow their unique learning style<\/li>\n<li>Each student develops an interest and individualized learning experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Some Cons of Differentiated Instruction:\n<ul>\n<li>Could make a seemingly second full time job for the teacher<\/li>\n<li>is hard to gauge effectiveness empirically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, we have to go set the bar high for our peers and for our students, by making that first leap and becoming that exemplary teacher. Through inquiry, inspiring critical thinking, and incorporating differentiated instruction, we definitely start the process of becoming an exemplary teacher.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/WyattBischoff\/status\/1039534309319815168<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Who was your favorite teacher? This question used to scare me. Haunt me really. What am I supposed to say? 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