Table of Contents
Preface v
1 A Vision of Ambitious Science Teaching 1
2 Planning for Engagement with Big Science Ideas Core Practice Set #1 19
3 Talk as a Tool for Learning Productive Discourse, Part 1 39
4 Encouraging More Students to Participate in Talk Productive Discourse, Part 2 65
5 Eliciting Students' ideas Core Practice Set #2 85
6 Making Thinking Visible Through Models Modeling, Part 1 111
7 Allowing Students to Show What They Know Modeling, Part 2 131
8 Supporting Ongoing Changes in Thinking: Introducing New Ideas Core Practice Set #3 151
9 Supporting Ongoing Changes in Thinking: Activity and Sense Making Core Practice Set #3 169
10 Supporting Ongoing Changes in Thinking: Collective Thinking: Core Practice Set # 3 187
11 Making and Justifying Claims in a Science Community Scientific Argument 199
12 Drawing Together Evidence-Based Explanations Core Practice Set #4 215
13 Organizing with Colleagues to Improve Teaching 237
14 Can We Be Ambitious Every Day? 257
Appendix A Coherence Between AST and Professional Standards for Practice 265
Appendix B Reminding Ourselves of the Bigger Picture of Instruction 269
Appendix c Taxonomy of Tools 275
Appendix D How to Help Students Understand the "What-How-Why" Levels of Explanation 277
Appendix E Rapid Survey of Student Thinking (RSST) Tool 281
Appendix F Supports for Students in Making Sense of Experimental Design and Purpose 283
Appendix G Supporting Explanation Writing 285
Notes 291
About the Authors 297
Index 299