This document discusses key aspects of effective science teacher training and professional development. It outlines that science teachers must have a strong knowledge of their subject matter and understand how to plan instruction. They also need to understand how students learn and how to meet the needs of diverse learners. Effective teacher learning opportunities, such as communities of practice and reflective dialogue, can help teachers continually improve. Professional development programs should focus on hands-on learning, understanding students' perspectives, and engineering better instruction - including support for English language learners. When teachers receive these types of learning opportunities, it can improve student achievement and reduce inequities.

2. Knowledgable Science
Teachers
*Know the content
*Master the content of the curriculum
*Plan instruction

3. Knowledge of Science
*Number of science courses their teacher has taken
*Subject matter training for a teacher is unclear
*Teachers teaching inside and outside their areas of
certification.

4. Understanding Learners and
Learning
*Provide challenging *Demands of particular
problems groups of students in the
classrooms
*Students’ learning can be *Teachers’ beliefs about
harnessed student learning

5. Teachers’ Perceptions of
Diverse Learners
*Appreciation and understanding of student diversity
*Play an important role
*The message students receive
*Teacher enter their teacher preparation programs
with little or no intercultural experience

6. Subject Matter Knowledge for
Teaching
*Engaging students
*Meaningful to all students
*What might work for one student might not work for
the other
*A skillful teacher

7. Teachers’ Opportunities To
Learn

8. Effective Teacher Learning
Opportunities
1. Reflect
2. Focus
3. Include
4. Provide
5. Emphasize
6. Provide
7. Require

9. Teacher Learning in the
Organizational Content of Schooling
*Communities of practice
*Community of teaching practice
*Fostering mutual accountability and collaboration

10. Five Elements
1. Shared norms and values
2. Focus on student learning
3. Reflective dialogue among teachers
4. Deprivatization of practice
5. Collaboration on curriculum and instruction

11. Professional Development
Programs
*Support teacher learning and instructional
improvement
*Doing Science
*Understanding Student Ideas
*Engineering Instructional Improvement

12. Teacher Learning Opportunities That
Focus on Diverse Student Groups
*The importance of promoting students’ English-
language and literacy development
*5 week summer professional development program
*Inquiry based Science program
*Improved Science achievement
*Reduced inequities in achievement patterns