New Resources + We Want Your Feedback

Apr 18, 2024

New tools, resources, and videos!

Hello Ambitious Science Teachers,

Over the last year, the team behind AST has redesigned the AST website to center justice, and community and update tools, resources, and videos. We’d love for you to take a look. Here is a sample of a few revised tools and a few new resources.

Building on Students’ Funds of Knowledge

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Promoting Justice and Equity: An Interview with Dr. Hosun Kang

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Discussion Diamond

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Stakeholder Meeting

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We want to hear from you!

The site redesign has been a collaborative effort among dozens of teachers and teacher educators. And it’s ongoing.

NEXT STEPS

Become a member of the AST community to be notified of new content, build a supportive community, receive tailored tools, and gain access to exclusive, member-only content
If you have 5 minutes, please fill out this survey about the usability of the new website.
If there is a tool or resource from that site that you’ve used, please share your story! We will do a $250 gift card raffle in May 2024.
If you are looking to build local collaborations, please see our partner page.
Feel free to reach out through our contact form if you have any questions or comments.

Onward,

The Ambitious Science Teaching team

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“I’m glad you didn’t give me three steps because that would be a lie. It’s not that easy. And so instead, you gave me a complex idea about how to do this in my classroom and examples that don’t erase the complexity.”

– K-12 Teacher

Ambitious Teaching—An overview

In this video we illustrate what Ambitious Teaching looks like in classrooms ranging from high school to kindergarten. The practices were developed through collaborations between teachers and researchers, and they are continually evolving as we learn more about how they work with young learners. There are several themes that you’ll see in all examples, such as a focus on puzzling and complex phenomena, opportunities to make sense through talk, making thinking visible, attending to who is participating, using various forms of scaffolding and tools, and much more.

This site is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Award #1907471 and #1315995