PA STEELS Series
Ambitous Science Teaching

PA STEELS - Ambitious Science Teaching Series
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STEELS Series Practice I - Planning for Big Ideas - January 23, 2024 - ARIN Central Office
This first level of the STEELS series seeks to aid K-12 science teachers in unpacking science curriculum and standards, learn how to identify anchoring phenomenon and support their explanation, and finally, how to organize a sequence of learning experiences.
- Unpacking Curriculum and Standards
- Identifying Anchoring Phenomenon and its Explanation
- Organizing a Sequence of Learning Experiences
STEELS Series - Practice II and III - Eliciting Student Ideas and Supporting Ongoing Changes in Thinking - February 23, 2024 - ARIN Central Office
Practices II and III in the STEELS series aims to support K-12 science teachers' understanding of how to elicit student ideas and support ongoing changes in student thinking throughout a unit of instruction.
STEELS Series - Practice IV - Drawing Together Evidence Based Explanations - March 5, 2024 - ARIN Central Office
Practice IV of the STEELS series supports K-12 science teachers in learning about how to help students draw together evidence-based explanations throughout a unit of instruction. We will learn about how to support students in developing gapless explanations for the phenomenon they encounter in the classroom.