Everything else follows -- the expectations that the children really want to learn and will do well, the enthusiasm with which the educators seek out and bring new ideas to the classroom and are willing to listen to the students' theories, and the eagerness to bring others into the classroom to contribute other concepts.
Sixth, the utterances coded as naive explanation (NE) include students' theories based on everyday sense-making such as experienced patterns, a belief by authorities, or intuitive belief (Anderson 2006).
In North Carolina alone, 99 percent of all high schools have registered for it, including eight that are part of a state-sanctioned pilot program to test the one computer, one student theory.
Course catalogs on those campuses included 11,876 "service learning" opportunities, in which students combined theory and practice, applying academic principles to real-world problems.
NB: For the record, at City University London, where I lecture, we do not teach students the theory and practice of shouting to politicians.
Students assume "theory" means "guesswork".
The introductory chapters were filled with plenty of useful information that could be used to teach college students evolutionary theory.
With respect to motivation, the Brainology® program is explicitly designed to impact students' implicit theory of ability.
The common assumption that having students master theory and data about evolution will, of itself, change their minds is simply wrong in many cases.
Yet efforts to teach students the theory of evolution are often undermined by a variety of biases (Ayala 2007; Collins 2006; National Academy of Sciences (U.S).
