{"id":2281,"date":"2019-05-01T21:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt431-531\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2019-05-04T14:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T18:42:57","slug":"2281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/2019\/05\/2281\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Teaching is Some Hard, but Rewarding Schist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>&#8220;Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of reasons why science has such a high demand when it comes to employment. One of those is common among all fields but I feel is something that is definitely amplified in the science \u2013 it\u2019s HARD. It\u2019s hard to teach and it\u2019s hard to understand. One of the biggest issues that stems from this is <em>keeping <\/em>students engaged. It\u2019s easy to get them engaged initially, but holding that engagement throughout a class period is so difficult once our elephant toothpaste is over.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Science of Teaching, Effective Education, and Great Schools\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KVLTxKyxioA?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><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.kym-cdn.com\/photos\/images\/original\/001\/467\/920\/624.jpg?resize=253%2C252&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Image result for physics is just spicy math\" width=\"253\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Students come into your class maybe expecting to blow things up or something else super exciting like that \u2013 I mean, it\u2019s science right? Instead, they get introduced to these abstract concepts like cells, vapor pressure, plate tectonics, inertia, etc. Maybe because of the degree to which science concepts are so abstract, science teachers often have to work extra hard to build understanding in their students while simultaneously working against misconceptions and keeping engagement.<\/p>\n<p>As a science teacher, you\u2019ll hear a lot of pushback:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhy do we need to know this?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen am I ever going to use this?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThis doesn\u2019t make any sense!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI hate science.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI can\u2019t remember all this stuff!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.redd.it\/0pr28auf07b21.jpg?resize=366%2C296&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"366\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These aren\u2019t exclusive to science at all. But what we need to do as science teachers is let students know that science is this monolithic <em>thing<\/em> that lets us understand the world. Students don\u2019t hate science \u2013 they hate how they\u2019re taught science. The biggest challenge in combating these oh-so-common phrases you will inevitably hear, and holding engagement, is instilling inquiry and varying instructional practices.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/cwistipher\/status\/1123753168834322432<\/p>\n<p>Science is not rote memorization or note taking. Yeah, you have to know a lot of things to be a good scientist, but that isn\u2019t what K-12 schooling is for. Science is full of inquiry, argumentation, experimentation, and exploration &#8211; they don&#8217;t need to know what a golgi apparatus does for adulthood but the critical thought and development of conceptual understanding that is so important in adulthood can so readily be gotten through science. Engagement is so critically important in science and all of these aforementioned practices keep students engaged. As the TQLMM might imply&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Keeping students engaged is the most critical component in building understanding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.redd.it\/v70ygujk6bv21.jpg?resize=282%2C238&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"282\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now obviously we have to lecture sometimes, and that\u2019s inescapable, but we can\u2019t be like those lame social studies teachers. Like that example in our literacy reading of the teacher that only lectured for eight minutes at a time, understand your students and their biological limitations. We have to do a lot of different things all the time to help them. And though this can take a huge toll on us emotionally and mentally, it is 100% worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&#8220;Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn&#8221; Benjamin Franklin There are plenty of reasons why science has <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/2019\/05\/2281\/\" title=\"Science Teaching is Some Hard, but Rewarding Schist\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges-for-science-teachers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}