Обложка книги The X Factor; Personality Traits of Exceptional Science Teachers (PB), Clair T. Berube  
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126 страниц
Категория: Учебная литература
ISBN: 9781617350351
Язык: Английский

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🔖 American science education is in trouble. As the United States continues to lagbehind other nations in science achievement, the question is asked: how can webetter get our students excited and inspired by science? This is the science teacher'sduty. The irony of the education profession is that some of the most importantaspects of it are the hardest to measure and replicate. The things that matter mostcan be the hardest to quantify. Some teachers can know the different learning styles,intelligences, and brain preferences of their students. They can know best practicesof how to deliver instruction. They can do all these things and more, but still notconvey imagination and passion for science to their students.But some science teachers do inspire. These special teachers seem to possesssomething the others don't, but what is it? Exceptional science teachers make us feel better about ourselvesthrough their teaching of science, and bring us to a higher quality of life as a result, while some science teacherscan be the leading researchers in their fields, yet leave us flat. What is the recipe for this unique, special teacher?And why is it so hard to explain and describe?The objective of this book is to uncover these aspects of teaching that are so hard to measure and quantify.This is achieved through interviewing people who are either current or retired teachers, or who were positivelyaffected by a teacher, and also through case studies of exceptional teachers in order to qu...
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