Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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EDTE 3540 - Introduction to Inquiry & Nature of Science
This course provides foundational knowledge, skills, and dispositions for the preparation of science teachers. It addresses science standards and curriculum, including the Ohio Learning Standards for Science, the Next Generation Science Standards, learning progressions, disciplinary core ideas, cross-cutting concepts, and science and engineering practices. Additional topics include the role that different kinds of assessments play in science curriculum, teaching, and learning. Students apply course principles in a K-12 professional development school classroom.
Requisites: WARNING: No Credit if EDSE 3510
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe the history of science education in the US with a focus on contemporary standards and frameworks.
- Students will be able to discuss the characteristics of the Nature of Science and develop learning experiences to advance K-12 student ideas about it.
- Students will be able to differentiate between scientific inquiry, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts, as well as integrate them to develop three-dimensional science learning experiences.
- Students will analyze and evaluate learning experiences for cognitive demand and responsiveness to the needs of diverse learners.
- Students will be able to describe and use various methods for eliciting and extending student ideas.
- Students will be able to explain research-based challenges and misconceptions associated with disciplinary core ideas.
- Students will be able to use data generated from diagnostic, formative, embedded, summative, and standardized assessments to inform instructional decision-making.
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