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IMPROVING SCIENCE CRITICAL LITERACY: IT STARTS IN THE CLASSROOM

Welcome to my blog! This summer I will be researching and subsequently developing workshops for pre-service teachers on the importance of helping to foster science critical literacy skills in students along with tangible ways in which this can be accomplished in the classroom. Follow along for weekly updates on this project!

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The Alberta Curriculum and Critical Literacy

Throughout my PURE term this summer I have done lots of research on critical science literacy, its merits and ways in which teachers can...

August Update!

I can’t believe I am about to enter the last official month of my PURE term. Of course I will be continuing with this project for the...

Continuing Research on Inquiry-Based Learning

This week I continued to focus on finding more sources to add to my literature review. Particularly, I focused on literature surrounding...

Translanguaging as a space for learning.

This week I wrapped up my initial design plans for the workshop series to be delivered in January 2023 and began revisiting my literature...

Lesson Preparations

This week I began to condense my literature review into digestible pieces of information to present in my workshop series in January,...

Where I am going now

A short vacation was very refreshing but now I am back at work on my PURE project. I have now moved into the phase of synthesizing the...

How Emotions Affect Us

This week my literature search took me down the path of emotions and how we are influenced by our own emotions especially when it comes...

Scientific Inquiry as a Critical Literacy Tool

A big focus of my studies in my secondary science specialization class this past winter was around the concept of inquiry and its...

Exploring the Four Dimensions of Critical Literacy

This week I began my literature review. I started by reading several chapters in both Creating critical classrooms (Lewison et al., 2015)...

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