While students engage in this type of inquiry, teachers facilitate inquiry by prompting them to reflect on their learning, encouraging them to articulate the reasoning behind their choice of variables and comparisons, and clarifying, challenging and elaborating their data interpretations. One of the challenges of science education reform is understanding how teachers facilitate student learning in their classrooms. We need to build comprehensive models of facilitation strategies in order to better understand facilitation, and to effectively train and assess inquiry teachers. The goal of this symposium is to move towards a working model of teachers as facilitators in science classrooms. Chairs Iris Tabak and Ben Loh , Northwestern University.
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Eric Baumgartner , UC Berkeley. William A. Sandoval , Kenneth Daniszewski, UCLA, James P. Spillane, Brian J. Reiser, Northwestern University. Steering the course of dialogue in inquiry-based science classrooms. Iris Tabak , Brian J. Reiser, Northwestern University.