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Monday, January 13, 2014
Goals for your students
What are some of the goals you have for your students? Provide a list of five goals below, as a reply to this post. Feel free to comment on others' goals. Here's an example:
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Anna's Goals
ReplyDeleteMy science students will…
1) Have an understanding for scientific principles that influence aspects of everyday life.
2) Explore the history of the nature of science to connect scientific principles to everyday life.
3) Engage in “hands on” activities that will promote goal #4
4) THINK about critical decisions with observations, logical reasoning, questioning, and experimentation.
5) Help influence a scientific literate society.
5 Teaching Goals
ReplyDeleteLentz Henson
1) To foster positive attitudes toward science through actively engaging students mentally and physically.
2) To develop critical thinking skills among all students.
3) To achieve student understanding of concepts rather than rote learning.
4) To promote understanding of real world applications of scientific phenomena.
5) To prepare students for life after secondary school, either for future academic endeavor or immediate entrance into the workforce.
Teaching Goals
ReplyDeleteDrew
1. To help my students to critically think about the world in which we live in.
2. To equip my students with an understanding and background in science so that they can question and explore new ideas beyond the classroom.
3. To prepare students for their next science class, college, or careers.
4. To promote the importance of studying multiple disciplines and seeing how they are all connected.
5. Help to make school a place where students are challenged and engaged.
Laura Martin
ReplyDelete1) Provide an environment that is comfortable and conducive for learning.
2) To bring science to life by incorporating current events in discussion.
3) To provide basic knowledge and then scaffolding students into finding other critical answers for themselves.
4) To teach to learn not to memorize.
5) To help each student leave having grown a little bit out of their academic comfort zone.
These are great, thanks for sharing them. Here are the Goals for the Science Students listed on the National Science Education Standards, so you can see how they compare to yours.
ReplyDelete-Experience the richness and excitement of knowing about and understanding the natural world;
-Use appropriate scientific processes and principles in making personal decisions;
-Engage intelligently in public discourse and debate about matters of scientific and technological concern; and
-Increase their economic productivity through the use of the knowledge, understandings, and skills of the scientifically literate person in their careers.