Summary: What does it really mean to teach science
for conceptual understanding?
Music City Center 101D: NSTA Press Session: Teaching Science
for Conceptual Understanding.
Recent professional development provided by Page Keeley related to formative assessment or teaching
for conceptual understanding and conducted for school districts and other organizations using Uncovering Student Ideas in Science and / or Science or Mathematics Formative Assessment.
So if I'm teaching
for conceptual understanding, which is a big idea in the common core, I'm going to go
for conceptual understanding while maybe modulating the specific skills I'm teaching.
Although the data indicate that she knew how to teach
for conceptual understanding, her teaching videos did not show any examples of questions at that level.
Today she works as an independent consultant, speaker, and author providing professional development to school districts and organizations in the areas of science and STEM formative assessment, understanding student thinking, teaching science
for conceptual understanding, and designing effective instruction.
She is a frequent invited speaker at regional and national conferences on the topic of formative assessment in science and teaching
for conceptual understanding.
Her recent book, Teaching
for Conceptual Understanding in Science is co-authored with her muse and mentor, Dr. Richard Konicek - Moran.
«The number of topics, for example, with the Indiana Academic Standards is very broad at each grade level, while Common Core is very narrow but very deep
for conceptual understand,» Walker told the panel of state lawmakers.
Not exact matches
Since
conceptual capacities needed to
understand God include capacities that are «existentially» significant while at the same time fully as rational and as rigorously disciplined as any other capacities to
understand anything else, can academic schooling be
understood adequately simply as the acquisition of capacities
for disciplined accumulation and mastery of data and capacities
for critical and self - critical theorizing (cf the «Berlin» model)?
By utter independence, Hartshorne is providing a
conceptual apparatus that could describe God's transcendence, just as relationality offers us a framework
for understanding immanence.
McDaniel, a member of the Working Area of the Church and Society Sub-unit of WCC, wrote two papers
for WCC consultations, one of which was on the
conceptual foundations of a life - centered ethic, and the other on a life - centered
understanding of God.
At the same time, however, it may well be that Wood's proposal to
understand theology as an activity provides the most promising
conceptual resources
for doing just that.
That is, the physical pole is normally
understood as the initial phase of conformal feelings that merely receives what is given to it, while the mental pole is normally
understood as the supplemental phases comprising pure
conceptual feelings would leave out the various propositional feelings Even if this were a correct
understanding of the mental and physical poles, it would still be inadequate,
for the two poles would not include all of God's feelings.
One can speak of genetic,
conceptual, and justificatory empiricism,
for example, and rationalism can be
understood as the search
for a system that is necessary as well as self - consistent.
For Whitehead, God is the non-temporary actual entity ordering the «eternal objects» by his
conceptual understanding, giving the potentialities «graded relevance» and in this way structuring the realm of potentialities.
The point is that, even today when we attempt to develop a
conceptual scheme
for the
understanding of man, we ordinarily bring to our task an
understanding of concepts and a set of concepts which arise in our dealings with the external world as mediated by sense experience.
But, as Ogden notes with respect to liberation theologians, they «focus on the existential meaning of God
for us without dealing at all adequately with the metaphysical being of God in himself».22 To reject the
conceptual task of theology reflects an inadequate
understanding of how faith functions.
For the intrinsic relations between reason and justice, the praxis of reason with its priority of contextual
understanding over
conceptual expression, means that the universality of solidarity, or inclusive wholeness, is a universality that is mediated through the particularity of local and communal struggles to transcend injustice.
I myself am inclined to agree with Barr about the poverty of this postfundamentalist theology and tradition
for the future of evangelicalism — though I would want my evangelical colleagues to
understand clearly that I reject this tradition not to reject biblical or evangelical faith but to seek rather a more adequate
conceptual framework through which to be more faithful to the Scriptures.
Read Warfield and his concurrence model on the issue, read Kevin Vanhoozer (Is There a Meaning in This Text), read Nicholas Wolterstorff and his notion of deputized discourse (in Divine Discourse), read William Alston and so many others that provide
conceptual frameworks
for understanding the dual authorship of Scripture.
Let me add here that if my interpretation of intuitions as reflective is not off the mark, then there is a way to help account
for the idea that intuitions and spatialized,
conceptual understanding are relevant to one reality, as Gunter insists.
The healing and growth insights that are available from the psychoanalytic
understanding of psychosexual development through adolescence, particularly as these insights have been extended by Erik Erikson and corrected by feminist psychologists, offer valuable
conceptual tools
for understanding and facilitating human growth.
Just as the Anglican Lambeth Conference of 1930 undermined a key part of the
conceptual framework that made potentially fruitful heterosexual intercourse the only acceptable kind of sex, so the gradual degradation in the popular
understanding of marriage makes it very difficult
for many people to conceptualise the Catholic argument against gay marriage.
Ross Snyder has articulated a world view which provides a
conceptual foundation
for understanding worship.
If God's relation to the world necessarily entails a fundamental triunity, this triunity may provide the
conceptual means
for coordinating our contemporary
understanding of the key biblical symbols.
No contemporary form of theology has given us such a full and genuine
conceptual understanding of God as has process theology, but the price that process theology has been forced to pay
for its doctrine of God is its negation of both the meaning and the reality of Christ.
It is clear that the thesis of meaning variance has implications
for an
understanding of
conceptual change.
As a result, at least
for many Christians, the deeper dimensions of their psychic makeup have often had little resonance with their vision of God, even though their
conceptual understanding may have appeared
This work led to the development of a
conceptual framework
for understanding and defining «fathers support
for breastfeeding», and concluding that initiatives to support breastfeeding focusing purely on mothers appear not to be sufficient (Sherriff et al, 2014).
We all know how tough it is to see your kid crying and clawing
for you, but by communicating your departure and return clearly, you're giving your child the
conceptual tools to manage and
understand the situation, he explains — you're giving him the semblance of some control, and that's precisely what he needs.
First, a
conceptual framework that
understands military force as a tool of statecraft is taken
for granted.
Stolk and his colleagues discuss the importance of
conceptual alignment
for mutual
understanding in an opinion piece appearing Jan. 11 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
«But
for the kinds of questions that measure
conceptual understanding, even if the teacher knew the scientific explanation, that wasn't enough to guarantee that their students would actually learn the science.»
Dr. Alan S. Cross, Professor of Medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research, shared his input: «This is a major
conceptual breakthrough in our
understanding of infection and immune disease mechanisms and may have implications
for novel approaches to the treatment of other diseases characterized by cytokine storm.
Conceptual replication is as vital
for gaining
understanding of an effect as direct replication is
for increasing confidence that the effect occurs.
The authors conclude that their six hallmarks — sustained proliferative signaling, evading growth suppression, resisting cell death, replicative immortality, induction of angiogenesis, and invasion / metastasis — continue to provide a useful
conceptual framework
for understanding the biology of cancer.
The Scientific
Conceptual Framework
for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) provides a scientific foundation
for understanding, implementing and monitoring LDN.
«Both of the intra-particle and inter-particle effects we saw represent first - of - their kind observations involving individual nanocatalysts and our results provide a new sort of
conceptual framework
for understanding how a nanoscale catalyst particle works.»
Based on a 50 - state survey, the study by Michigan State University's Center
for the Learning and Teaching of Elementary Subjects found that 35 states had created inservice programs to train teachers to teach problem - solving and
conceptual understanding.
The example has clearly color coded sections
for students to draw conclusions from and develop
conceptual understanding as they apply their own knowledge through practice.
The controversies that emerged from his research recruited exceptionally talented people from a variety of fields; his wide - ranging intellectual interests expanded the
conceptual tools available
for understanding important aspects of childhood and adolescence; and finally, his expectations
for policy research have been institutionalized in ways that have improved both the relevance and quality of social - science research in general.
Finally
for conceptual collaboration, a teacher must dive into the deep water of
conceptual understanding in the other content area.
However,
for students to
understand, and communicate, some of the important ecological, conservationist arguments, they benefit from a
conceptual understanding of food webs, ecological interactions, and natural selection.
People who study education
for a living
understand what's going on — this is straight out of the standards promulgated by the National Council
for the Social Studies, a professional organization that has long prized such «
conceptual understanding» over «rote facts and figures.»
To make these choices you must consider several factors: the information students are held accountable
for on high - stakes tests, the minimal depth of
conceptual understanding they need in order to continue deepening their
understanding in a subsequent course or grade level, and the most significant ideas underlying the course content.
Ironically — and especially plaguing to advocates of deeper learning and
conceptual understanding — experts tend to forget just how much they've absorbed into long - term memory and thus take most of their foundational mastery
for granted.
Is it possible
for students to demonstrate deeper
conceptual understanding and get the same or better scores on an AP test?
Working with symbolic strategies is essential in algebra learning, including knowing multiple strategies
for solving a problem, selecting the most appropriate procedure
for a given problem and
understanding the
conceptual rationale behind commonly used strategies.
It means the connections between the lessons, the assessment, between the unveiling of the concepts in terms of the
conceptual understanding for the students, is all done and held by one person and not shared.