Overview This exhibition provides a way to share, borrow, and collaborate through new technologies. The following websites are available for use by prospective and practicing teachers and teacher educators: Elementary: Ellen Franz Elementary: Emily Wolk 6th Grade: Anne Pfitzner Middle School Science: Claire Bove Adolescent Development Course: Anna Richert Elementary Science Teaching Methods Course: Deborah Smith Elementary Science Teaching Methods Course: Emily van Zee

Personal Geometries: Working Within the Variable Landscape of Language, Culture, Curriculum and Relationship Ellen Franz, Bayside Elementary School, Sausalito Marin City, CA As a white, female educator working primarily with African American students, how can I build bridges between my own cultural background and my students' as we strive towards achievement of academic excellence? Ellen Franz's Snapshot of Practice

Pio Pico Researchers Participatory Action Research: From Classroom to Community, Transforming Teaching and Learning Emily Wolk, Pio Pico Elementary School, CA How can my students and I engage our urban elementary school and surrounding neighborhood in addressing a serious problem in our community? Emily Wolk's Snapshot of Practice

Looking Beyond Themselves: Preparing Students to Become Invested Members of Their Community Anne Pfitzner, Soldotna Elementary School, Soldotna, Alaska How can I engage my students to become invested in improving the living standards of our community? Anne Pfitzner's Snapshot of Practice

Making a New Song about Science Deborah Smith, Michigan State University What questions and problems do I encounter when teaching a course on methods of teaching science in elementary school? Deborah Smith's Snapshot of Practice

Resources Teacher Research: Exploring Student Thinking and Learning Studies by K12 Teacher Researchers Books on Teacher Researcher Communities Inquiring into Inquiry Learning and Teaching in Science Gallery of Teaching and Learning KEEP Toolkit for Building Snapshots of Practice Relevant National Research Council Publications Relevant NSTA Books Studies by College Faculty Transforming Introductory Physics Courses An Alternative Approach to General Chemistry Telecommunications Information Books on Methodology

For Practicing Teachers: You probably don't have time during your teaching day to go and observe other teachers, to see what they are doing in their practice. Through these websites, you can take as much or as little time as you can spare to 'visit' other classrooms, to see what other teachers are doing, to borrow what you think you might be able to adapt for your own practice. This exhibition is intended as a new form of collaboration. Feel free to look, to borrow, and to give your feedback. For Prospective Teachers: During your preparation to teach, you will be in a limited number of classrooms (usually two) as you do your student teaching. You may have time in your busy schedule to observe in a few more in the school where you have your placement. These websites give you a chance to 'observe' in a number of other classrooms, to see how different teachers approach the challenges of teaching, and perhaps to find models and strategies you can use as you form your own practice. For Teacher Educators: The prospective teachers in your courses may or may not observe in their placements the approaches to teaching that you are advocating. By using these websites as 'texts' in your courses, you can engage prospective and practicing teachers in reflecting upon a wide variety of examples of reform approaches to science learning and teaching. You can explore several ways to use the websites in two websites below by teacher educators (Richert, van Zee). Also below is a website about an elementary science teaching methods course (Smith).

Feeling at Home in the Science Classroom Claire Bove, Bancroft Middle School, San Leandro, CA How can I build community in my classroom and how does that sense of community support critical thinking in science? Claire Bove's Snapshot of Practice

Learning about Adolescents from Teachers Who Teach Them Well Anna Richert, Mills College, Oakland, CA What can my students and I learn about adolescent development and teaching adolescents from studying the practice of our successful veteran secondary school colleagues? Anna Richert's Snapshot of Practice Anna Richert's Use of Claire Bove's Website

Using 'Snapshots of Practice' to Engage Prospective Teachers in Learning Through Inquiry Emily van Zee, University of Maryland, College Park How can I use "snapshots of practice" to engage prospective teachers in the process of inquiring into science learning and teaching? Emily van Zee's Snapshot of Practice Using Web-based "Snapshots of Practice" van Zee, E.H. (in press). Using web-based "snapshots of practice" to explore science learning and teaching in a course for prospective teachers, Issues in Teacher Education Making Science Teaching and Learning Visible van Zee, E.H. & Roberts, D. (in press). Making science teaching and learning visible through web-based 'snapshots of practice' Journal of Science Teacher Education.