Hodder Education
Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide
Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide
US$ 26.39
The publisher has enabled DRM protection, which means that you need to use the BookFusion iOS, Android or Web app to read this eBook. This eBook cannot be used outside of the BookFusion platform.
Description
Contents
Reviews

Teaching science is no simple task. Science teachers must wrestle with highly abstract and demanding concepts, ideas which have taken humanity's greatest minds thousands of years to formulate and refine. Communicating these great and awesome theories involves careful forethought and planning. We need to deliver crystal clear explanations, guide students as they develop their embryonic knowledge and then release them to develop their thinking independently, all the while curating and tending to their long-term understanding as it develops over time.
In Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide, Adam breaks down the complex art of teaching science into its component parts, providing a concrete and comprehensive set of evidence-informed steps to nurturing brilliant science students. Adam hopes that you find this book interesting, but his main aim is for you to find it useful. Useful when it comes to sketching out your curriculum, useful when preparing your explanations, useful for mapping out how you will check student understanding and useful for all other aspects of science teaching. This is a truly complete guide, and science teachers of any experience will find it packed with ideas that are new, challenging, interesting and, most importantly, useful.

Language
English
ISBN
9781914351754
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Praise for Teaching Secondary Science
Contents
Introduction
Structure of this book
General reading
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Substance
Chapter 1: Where to start?
Chapter 2: Which knowledge matters?
Chapter 3: Starting your learning sequence
Chapter 4: Books, mini-whiteboards or oral response – what works when?
Chapter 5: Types of question
Chapter 6: The challenge equation
Chapter 7: Many birds, one stone
Chapter 8: Going over your retrieval quiz: the basics
Chapter 9: Going over your prerequisite quiz
Part 2: Explanations
Chapter 10: Explaining science
Chapter 11: Sequencing examples
Chapter 12: The multimedia effect
Chapter 13: Making the abstract concrete
Chapter 14: Explanations in action – digestion
Chapter 15: Analogies
Chapter 16: Directions of travel
Chapter 17: Misconceptions
Chapter 18: Explanations in action – diffusion
Chapter 19: Explanations in action – the heart
Chapter 20: Introducing new vocabulary
Chapter 21: Explaining equations
Chapter 22: Solving equation problems
Chapter 23: Engaging explanations
Part 3: Building understanding
Chapter 24: What is understanding?
Chapter 25: Check and consolidate
Chapter 26: The ‘quick and dirty’ check and consolidate
Part 4: Independent practice
Chapter 27: Practising procedural knowledge –equations
Chapter 28: Interleaving
Chapter 29: Practising procedural knowledge in action – speed
Chapter 30: Practising declarative knowledge
Chapter 31: Expertise reversal
Part 5: Assessment and feedback
Chapter 32: Assessing understanding
Chapter 33: Feedback
Chapter 34: What to do after an exam
Chapter 35: Marking and whole-class feedback
Chapter 36: Reviewing independent practice
Part 6: Practicals
Chapter 37: The art of the demo
Chapter 38: Problematic practicals
Chapter 39: The Slow Practical
Part 7: Building brilliant scientists
Chapter 40: Mary, and why we teach science
Chapter 41: Motivating scientists
Chapter 42: A culture of retrieval
Conclusion
FAQs
Glossary and summary tables
The book hasn't received reviews yet.