UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING SCIENCE TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE

There has been a growing interest in the notion of a scholarship of teaching. Such scholarship is displayed through a teacher's grasp of, and response to, the relationships between knowledge of content, teaching and learning in ways that attest to practice as being complex and interwoven. Yet attempting to capture teachers' professional knowledge is difficult because the critical links between practice and knowledge, for many teachers, is tacit. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) offers one way of capturing, articulating and portraying an aspect of the scholarship of teaching and, in this case, the scholarship of science teaching.

INTERACTIONS 1 LISTENING SPEAKING (silver edition) (AUDIO ONLY)Interactions/Mosaic Silver Edition is the new revised five – level, four skill comprehensive ESL / EFL series designed to prepare students for academic content. The themes are intergrated across proficiency levels and the levels are articulated across skill strands. The series combines communicative activities with skill- building exercises to boost students’ academic success.

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Get Set - Go! is a lively language course for children learning English for the first time.
Get Set - Go! has a carefully graded syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. The lower levels emphasize speaking and listening but also lay a foundation for the demanding comprehension and story-writing skills in later levels.
Get Set - Go! is based around a variety of texts and activities, including entertaining stories, songs and games, which are all carefully matched to the interests of children.
Get Set - Go! is easy to use and fun to use!

These cards support the retelling of a story and give instructional support for comprehension skills. Included on the back of the cards are strategies for various levels of language acquisition. Retelling Cards also provide concrete speaking and writing prompts for English Language Learners.

Regie Routman shares her delightful selection of free verse poems written by third-and fourth graders that will inspire your third-and fourth graders to think, I can write poems like this too! Regie provides strategies for using kids' poems as models to guide children to write poems about things they know and care about, from eating french fries to secret places and family trips. She describes the way she invites children to study the model poem, beginning by asking kids, What do you notice? She shows how she demonstrates the poetry-writng process to children: thinking aloud and drafting poems about her own life, and then inviting children to write on their own.