Hard-to-teach Biology Concepts: A Framework to Deepen Student Understanding

Hard-to-teach Biology Concepts: A Framework to Deepen Student Understanding
ISBN-10
193353141X
ISBN-13
9781933531410
Category
Biology
Pages
260
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
NSTA Press
Authors
Susan Koba, Anne Tweed

Description

This well-researched book provides a valuable instructional framework for high school biology teachers as they tackle five particularly challenging concepts in their classrooms, meiosis, photosynthesis, natural selection, proteins and genes, and environmental systems and human impact. The author counsels educators first to identify students' prior conceptions, especially misconceptions, related to the concept being taught, then to select teaching strategies that best dispel the misunderstandings and promote the greatest student learning. The book is not a prescribred set of lesson plans. Rather it presents a framework for lesson planning, shares appropriate approaches for developing student understanding, and provides opportunities to reflect and apply those approached to the five hard-to-teach topics. More than 300 teacher resources are listed.

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