Given that effectiveness of teachers' classroom practices is critical to the success of current science education reforms, teacher professional development has been an ongoing focus for promoting educational reform (Corcoran, 1995; Corcoran et al., 1998).
Most interventions are given at the classroom level, meaning that all students in a given classroom receive the intervention.
Given that the study was conducted in a regular classroom setting, a number of usual obstacles were faced.
Note to Teachers: This exercise can be done in classrooms across the curriculum, given that the process of creating a found poem entails reading, understanding and pulling salient details from articles that may be related to any course content.
This result for regular biology teachers is not unexpected, given that their classroom instruction focuses on the essential components of the process and not on the details.
Given that most classroom and study environments include a variety of external distractors, it is quite likely that students not only mind-wander frequently during lectures and while studying, but that they are also frequently distracted by information in the environment (Tesch et al., 2011; Unsworth, Brewer, et al., 2012; Unsworth, McMillan, et al., 2012).
A dentist's lecture regarding oral health issues was given in the classroom at baseline.
The motivation behind Sound in the Sea Day was to give students outside the classroom experiences that connect to inside the classroom concepts, to give students the time to listen to their surroundings, to promote interest in the STEM fields and to give students the opportunity to use technology used in acoustics research they otherwise wouldn't get the chance to use.
That news gave the classroom's nonracing majority a few self-satisfying moments in which to identify with the Morton Thiokol scientists who had rightly warned against the launching.
Nevertheless, given the classroom setting, it is possible that some respondents felt pressured to stay.
Although the survey did not specify which classroom, given that evolution is taught as part of the National Curriculum for Science at Key Stages 4 and 5, it is reasonable to infer that the minority of science teachers who agreed with giving creationism/ID the "same status as evolution" would deem it appropriate to teach such concepts in the secondary school science classroom.
