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**SCIED 552: Science Teaching and Learning**
Scott McDonald

Wednesday 4:45 - 7:45 pm, 121 Chambers Building

Driving Questions
 * How do students learn science?
 * How has this knowledge impacted science teaching?
 * How does current research approach science teaching and learning?

Each participant will engage in building understanding of issues associated with learning and teaching science. This process involves being part of a learning community. As a community we will make sense of research and develop theoretical as well as practical perspectives of science knowledge and learning. We will also examine exemplary teaching practices. Ideas will be developed through readings, assignments and discussions in class. Participants will read and reflect on the assigned papers and actively participate in the in-class, small group, and website discussions, projects and related tasks. The first weeks of the course will focus on the psychological and sociological foundation of theory and research in science learning. The remainder of the class will examine current issues in science teaching and learning in light of your developing understanding of learning theory. Assignments should be written clearly and thoroughly and include appropriate references in APA style (5th edition).
 * Expectations**

Here is a [|Glossary] of the terms that we are using/learning to use in the context of the course. Here is a set of pages that have questions for weekly discussion around the readings we are doing.