ncate outline

assignment 1 -- interviewing children

• making the task kit
• listening to kids
• notes and quotes about kids and tasks

• ankney-joyce test

• reading 1a - autonomy the aim of education according to piaget
• reading 1b - second half of above
• autonomy - heteronomy (which way does your school 'work')

• the harmful effects of algorithms - in primary arithmetic
• linda joseph embraces 'constructivist math'
• on research: finding new strategies
• the constructivist learning model: toward real reform in sci ed
• teachers & students: constructivist forging new connections
• how to help children make mistakes
• piaget and science education
• piaget rediscovered
• wherein balloons teach the learning process

• blank lesson plan
• bloom's terminology
• what's the goal
• the science processes
• why use process

option 1 -- life & times of piaget

• reading 1 --- some notes and quotes
• reading 2 --- piaget's obit
• reading 3 --- equilibrium = true learning
• reading 4 --- concrete thinkers -- a list of their skills
• reading 5 --- formal thinkers -- a list of their skills
• reading 6 --- some test data -- spooky results
• reading 7 --- the child -- get xerox from dr. leyden
• reading 8 --- conversations with children--their conceptions of causality
• reading 9 --- duckworth: piaget rediscovered
• reading 10 --- listening to children - analyzing the thoughts behind their words

• reading 1 --- the inquiry method -- from teaching as a subversive activity
• reading 2 ---- enlightened opportunism --- Elementary Science Study preface
• reading 3 --- science and the ability to think - ( by leyden's teacher ) get copy from leyden
• reading 4 --- the barometer story: . . .teaching criticial thinking
• reading 5 --- an evolutionary tale -- ( leyden's biography in his book )
• reading 6 --- helping kids make mistakes
• reading 7 --- the forgotten art of perceiving nature
• reading 8 --- letter to a ( lazy ) student

• reading 1 ---the tyranny of words
• reading 2 ---wings for a dinosaur
• reading 3 --- a different point of view things
• reading 4 --- rising to the challenge
• reading 5 --- flying circus of physics
• reading 6 --- messing about in science
• reading 7 --- messing about in science: revisited
• reading 8 --- you don't have time NOT to teach
• reading 9 --- you graduate more criminals than scientists

• reading 1 --- science, silence, and sanctions
• reading 2 --- mum's the word - more about science and silence
• reading 3 --- help is denied to those in need
• reading 4 ---wait time: slowing down may be a way of speeding up
• reading 5 --- wait time summary
• reading 6 --- payoff for pausing
• reading 7 --- question hierarchy -- california school district
• reading 8 --- collea --- fate control inventory

• forum: generic lesson design: does it fit the mold (m. hunter)

• reading 1 --- a-read-me-first
• reading 2 --- it's the real thing - the scientific method
• reading 3 --- discrepant events
• reading 4 --- egg & i --- leyden
• reading 5 --- the strange silo --- leyden
• reading 6 --- discrepant events: why they fascinate
• reading 7 --- discrepant events: what happens to those who watch
• reading 8 --- discrepant events: turn on turned off students
• reading 9 --- what's wrong with this picture
• reading 10 --- did'ja ever wonder ? --- a chapter from leyden's book:
• reading 11 --- the great string drop --- leyden
• reading 12 --- conflict & inquiry
• reading 13 --- discrepant event demonstrations

• science teaching and the new education
• letters to the editor
• princeton project & process approach: a critique
• the content and structure of tsm - a reply to the above
• comparison of the effectiveness of two methods of teaching tsm

• no readings yet

• the child (not put up yet)
• myelin & maturation: a fresh look at piaget
• conversations with children - their interpretation of causality
• where does the old moon go
• the earth is round?
• the art of listening to children
• genius
• memory - true or false
• did'ja ever wonder (chapter from leyden's book)
• misconceptions defined
• learning about thinking - thinking about learning (not on Net yet)