Episodes
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Episode 59: Pocket Full of Questions
October 13th, 2021 | Season 2 | 47 mins 31 secs
In this episode, Scott and Ollie discuss the final practice in their Ambitious Science Teaching series: Pressing for evidence-based explanations.
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Episode 58: Not The Nonsense You Came For
October 6th, 2021 | Season 2 | 44 mins 30 secs
This week we talk about the second AST practice, supporting students' on-going thinking.
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Episode 57: Not Scott's Age. Or Episode 56
September 29th, 2021 | Season 2 | 44 mins 29 secs
In this episode, we dig into the second phase of Ambitious Science Teaching: Eliciting students' ideas.
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Episode 56: The Big Umbrella
September 22nd, 2021 | Season 2 | 42 mins 10 secs
This week we begin a conversation about equity and inclusive and responsive practices for engaging all students in school in productive ways, sometimes described as inclusion.
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Episode 55: Good Things Come in Threes
September 15th, 2021 | Season 2 | 47 mins 22 secs
In this final episode in our "teacher education trilogy," Scott and Ollie discuss the current preparation programs at their institutions and how their design was informed by research.
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Episode 54: My Minion, Not My Lackey
September 8th, 2021 | Season 2 | 42 mins 36 secs
We continue our conversation around science teacher preparation, specifically our own experience with being prepared to teach science.
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Episode 53: Ten Thousand Hours Ago
September 2nd, 2021 | Season 2 | 51 mins 25 secs
In this episode, Scott and Ollie share their experiences with their teacher education programs.
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Episode 52: Joy to the World
August 25th, 2021 | Season 1 | 57 mins 1 sec
For this last episode of season one we just talk joys.
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Episode 51: Harumph!
August 17th, 2021 | Season 1 | 52 mins 14 secs
In this episode, we dig deeper into phenomenon-based teaching and what it would look like in a classroom setting.
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Episode 50: Mahna Mahna Do Do Do Do Do
August 13th, 2021 | Season 1 | 56 mins 11 secs
This episode we talk about the difference between a phenomenon and a science topic and why people should care about it.
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Episode 49: Not about Pornography, Eugenics or Psychopathy
August 4th, 2021 | Season 1 | 52 mins 9 secs
In this episode, we finish up our discussion of pedagogical content knowledge and examine the larger impacts (and unintended consequences) of measuring things.
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Episode 48: Haters Have Got to Hate (or Do They?)
July 28th, 2021 | Season 1 | 52 mins 54 secs
We continue the conversation about PCK and its spawn.
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Episode 47: Scott's Swear Jar
July 21st, 2021 | Season 1 | 50 mins 4 secs
In this episode, we discuss PCK (pedagogical content knowledge) and its impact on the field of education and teacher education.
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Episode 46: Not All Friends of the Show
July 14th, 2021 | Season 1 | 40 mins
This week we summarize our discussion of learning theory and talk about why teachers (or anyone) should care about it.
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Episode 45: Our Mid-Life Crisis Episode
July 7th, 2021 | Season 1 | 50 mins 4 secs
In this week's episode, we discuss the research on learning progressions in science education.
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Episode 44: We are not the Borg
June 30th, 2021 | Season 1 | 53 mins 59 secs
This week we talk about Posner, Strike, Hewson, and Getzog's paper on conceptual change and the theory's impact on science education.