Doing Science

Neal A. Glasgow′s experience includes serving as a secondary school science and art teacher both in California and New York, as a university biotechnology teaching laboratory director and laboratory technician, and as an educational consultant and frequent speaker on many educational topics. He is the author or coauthor of ten books on educational topics: What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: Fifty Research-Based Strategies for Teachers and Administrators (2008), What Successful Literacy Teachers Do: 70 Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Instructional Planners (2007), What Successful Teachers Do in Diverse Classrooms: 71 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2006); What Successful Teachers Do in Inclusive Classrooms: 60 Research-Based Strategies That Help Special Learners (2005); What Successful Mentors Do: 81 Researched-Based Strategies for New Teacher Induction, Training, and Support (2004); What Successful Teachers Do: 91 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2003); Tips for Science Teachers: Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn (2001); New Curriculum for New Times: A Guide to Student-Centered, Problem-Based Learning (1997); Doing Science: Innovative Curriculum Beyond the Textbook for the Life Sciences (1997); and Taking the Classroom to the Community: A Guidebook (1996).

• Introduction to Science Teaching PhilosophyLooking at an Old Paradigm with New EyesTeaching and Learning TodayThe Basic Styles and OptionsThe Basic Elements or Characteristics of the Problem-Based CurriculumScience without the MessWhere to Find Investigations and Sources of DataBig Nonlaboratory Problems (but Could Include Laboratory Experiences!)Doing Authentic ScienceExamples of Mentored Project ExperiencesOther Real Science ProjectsDefining the OutcomesProblem-Based Assessment and Evaluation PhilosophyCurricular AccountabilityScience Education Then and NowStudents, Parents, and Staff in the New Paradigm