How Regular Data Analysis Complements Student Centered Learning

In the Data-Dependent Analysis portion of my student centered lessons, I teach students how to use data they collect during their interactive Learning Experience.  We pull back and reflect on what they’ve collected to consider what they’ve learned.  In the planning, it’s nothing more than a series of questions – sometimes scaffolded questions -- leading students to the big idea.  We work toward uncovering that which I want and need them to see, that new knowledge they’ve generated.

 

This element of the interactive science lesson doesn't prepare them to be chemists when they leave my chemistry course.  It trains them to be informed citizens of our world who don’t act primarily from a place of emotion and passion.  It conditions them to gather as much information as they can for themselves, to sit back and consider that information from a variety of angles, and then – perhaps combined with their passion and emotion – create a course of action. 

 

I believe we science teachers can do that, that we are the best position of any other on our faculty to fulfill that huge responsibility, if only one student at a time! 

 

In this episode, you'll hear a few real-life analogies to the more academic analyses we expect our students to conduct as we seek to gain perspective of our purpose.  You'll get some great content-based, instructional examples where data-dependent analysis has been incorporated and from which you'll learn how to incorporate into your own lessons. 

 

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