Research Symposium

BIO

My name is Ryan Huang and I was born in Gainesville, Florida. I'm currently a first-year student at Florida State University and am majoring in Marketing. For UROP, I am working on the research project "Learning through Collaborative Design Professional Development".

Teaching Patterns and Where to Find Them

Abstract

Current science education reform standards for grade K-12 are guided according to the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The framework aims to move science education away from providing lists and facts for students to memorize and into a foundation of related science concepts that apply teaching practices that support an exploratory mind.The Learning through Collaborative Design Professional Development (LCD PD) project, a National Science Foundation-supported research project, orients to this goal and aims to explore the best ways to support science teachers to engage their students in "figuring things out" through productive science talk. Over the past few years the project had collected data to analyze, the fourth and final year being the field study. From this data, the authors of this work focused on three core teachers who participated in the field study, coding classroom video observations using open coding to identify patterns and themes in and across teachers through Nvivo 12 software. Findings showed several variations in codes amongst the core teachers, and a relationship was identified between student and teacher engagement in the activities. Moving forward with this work we hope to continue supporting teacher instructional moves for further student engagement.

Keywords: teaching, students, education