- Year 2024
- NSF Noyce Award # 2151024
- First Name Linda
- Last Name Padwa
- Institution Stony Brook University
- Role/Position Principal Investigator (PI)
- Proposal Type Lightning Talk
- Workshop Category Track 2: Teaching Fellowships
- Workshop Disciplines Audience Other:Science Research for prospective science teachers
- Target Audience Co-PIs, Evaluators/Education Researchers, Noyce Master Teachers, Noyce Teaching Fellows, Other Faculty/Staff, Project PIs, Undergraduate and/or Graduate Noyce Scholars
- Topics Developing Teacher Leaders, Lessons learned from developing/implementing a Track 1 project / Track 2 project / Track 3 project / or Track 4 Research project
- Additional Presenter(s)
Keith Sheppard; Email: Keith.Sheppard@stonybrook.edu
Proposal
Despite the increased emphasis on authentic science instruction, many science teachers have not had much experience actually ‘doing science’, i.e., science research, so they may not be adequately prepared to incorporate all aspects of the Next Generation Science Standards into their teaching. With support from the National Science Foundation, specifically the Noyce Research Experience for Prospective Science Teachers, preservice candidates in our Science Teacher Preparation program have been placed during the summer as full-time team members in scientific research laboratories. Through their experiences in laboratories they learned that doing science is challenging yet rewarding, and they have many stories to share with their future students about how scientists conduct their research and expand the knowledge base that helps to explain aspects of the natural world. This session addresses details of the program, including how the project was organized; the strategies used for enrolling students; the value of the experience for the candidates; and the transfer of their learning to lessons that they plan in terms of increased inclusion of Nature of Science, real-world examples of Science and Engineering Practices and Cross Cutting Concepts, and greater awareness of how to incorporate these standards into lab activities that they develop for their students.
