Emily+Hayes-Rowan



"Rather than focusing on specific technologies or specific problems, we need to equip students with those concepts that are common to all problems, all technologies, all skills." (Gunderson, Jones, and Scanland: "Jobs Revolution: Changing How American Works)



** "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." ** ** (Thomas Carruthers) **

__** Why do I teach? **__





// "The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth.'" //// (Dan Rather) //

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." (Maria Montessori)

__** How do I teach? **__ // My classroom has 3 simple rules: //

// Respect yourself. //// Respect others. //// Respect the equipment. //

"Good teaching is more a giving of right questionsthan a giving of right answers."(Josef Albers)

Image Courtesy of http://www.education.vic.gov.au

Towards Coherence in Science Instruction: A Framework for Science Literacy // "Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges // // over which they invite their students to cross, //  // then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, //  // encouraging them to create bridges of their own." // // (Nikos Kazantzakis) //



“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”(William Bragg, Sr.)

**__ Why Teach Science? __**

Why Science Matters: Scientific Literacy In the American Political Landscape

“Science can teach us...no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in." (Bertrand Russell)

Science:Teaching people how to think since 450 B.C.

**__ What is Science? __**

‎"Science is primarily the method of intelligence at work in observation, in inquiry and experimental testing...Fundamentally, what science means and stands for is simply the best ways yet found out by which human intelligence can do the work it should do, ways that are continuously improved by the very process of work." (John Dewey, 1916)

** For me, science is about exploring and investigating **** the wonders of the natural world... ** media type="youtube" key="at_f98qOGY0" height="315" width="560" align="center"

Microscopic Julia heliconian butterfly egg (SEM)Read more here

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Eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland, 2010. Image courtesy of National Geographic

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