DESCRIPTION
Standard 1: Content Pedagogy
The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline he or she teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for students.
REFLECTION
In order to be an effective teacher, it is important to have knowledge of the content one is to teach. This is the foundation for a teacher, but a teacher must have more than a simple understanding of the content. Teachers of science must understand and can articulate the knowledge and practices of contemporary science. They can interpret important concepts, ideas, theories, applications and conduct scientific investigations. It is critical that the teacher evaluates resources and curriculum materials for their comprehensiveness, accuracy and usefulness for representing science concepts and ideas. Science content knowledge is essential for the selection and evaluation of curriculum and materials used in the classroom.
EVIDENCE
I have listed below the science courses I have completed demonstrating my content knowledge.
- Physical Geology with lab
- Historical Geology with lab
- Mineralogy and Geochemistry with lab
- Plate Tectonics with lab
- Glacial Geology Climate Change with lab
- Astronomy with lab
- Agricultural Climatology
- Oceanography
- Meteorology with lab
- Environmental Climatology
- Global Climate Change
- Weather and Climate
- Weather Analysis and Forecasting with lab
- Wetland Systems
- Biology I with lab
- Plant Biology
- University Chemistry I with lab
- University Chemistry II General and Inorganic with lab
- University Physics I with lab
- University Physics II with lab
- Writing in the Earth Sciences
- Energy and Mineral Resources
- Introduction to Geographic Information Science (GIS)
- Geographic Information Science (GIS) Applied Environmental Science
- People and Environment
- Environmental Health
- Calculus I
- Calculus II
- Statistics
