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Jimmy Sweeney
Biology teacher
Standard 4: Instructional Strategies
A teacher must understand and use a variety of instructional strategies to encourage student development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
My interpretation: A teacher must keep in mind that one of the main goals of education is to teach students how to think and not simply what to think.
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I believe that science students need to learn how to think curiously about the world. They need to inquire how natural process occur. As part of my educational psychology course, I found that an inquiry-based pedagogy may help students think critically as well as become more engaged in science class.
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