Engaging students in secondary science : ASISTM Project 2006 : Australian School Innovation in Science, Technology and Mathematics [CD-ROM]

Ian Mitchell, Greg Lancaster and Laurence Bull
Clayton, Vic. : PEEL, Monash University, 2006

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CD-ROM Description
This ambitious project aimed to bring about changes in participating students, and teachers and to document developments in teacher wisdom beneficial to the teaching and learning of science. Via the teachers use of short reflective stories we are able to gain insights into their classroom practice and follow their personal journey to encourage increased levels of interest and intellectual engagement for students in their science classes.

As many of their stories attest, their initial attempts were not always successful but all of the stories were selected because of the rich insights they provide into trials of innovative classroom practice. Many of the stories also tell of the teachers' attempts to encourage their students to seek real links between science content and their personal lives and to promote classroom exploratory discussion based on student observations of phenomena witnessed in the world around them.

Installation : Windows 2000/XP and networks - required connection to the internet to enable hyperlinks to be activated. Load disk and run Servertogo.exe.

About the authors
Dr. Ian Mitchell, Monash University, Project Co-ordinator,
Mr. Greg Lancaster, Monash University, Project Assistant,
Dr. Laurence Bull, Monash University, Project Programmer.
Contributing Monash University members: Dr. Amanda Berry, Dr. Deb Corrigan, Prof. Dick Gunstone, Mr. Stephen Keast, Mr. Greg Lancaster, Prof. John Loughran.

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