Faculty Research Interests

• 21st Century Teachers - The two largest campuses of Indiana University in concert with professional educators are designing a project to strengthen and focus the roles of the arts and sciences in teacher education. The initiative concentrates on beginning teachers, although attention is also paid to the continuing professional development of experienced teachers.
• Graphical Literacy
• Elementary Teacher Enhancement Program Learning Science by Inquiry is a project that explores elementary teachers' understandings of nature of science and inquiry, and provides professional development to help teachers make their new understandings explicit in their classroom practice. A key feature is project staff who teach model lessons in the teachers' classrooms.
• The Internet Learning Forum - This project involves the design and evaluation of the salient features of an electronic knowledge network, the Internet Learning Forum (ILF), to support a virtual community of in-service and pre-service mathematics and science teachers sharing, improving, and creating inquiry based pedagogical practices.
• Point of View Cameras
• Saturday Science Program Saturday Science is part of the QUEST Program (Quality Undergraduate Education for Science Teachers). This six-week program provides local students in grades K-8 to explore a variety of science topics through hands-on activity. Classes are taught by experienced classroom teachers, who are assisted by preservice elementary teachers from the School of Education.
• Science EDUCATES Science EDUCATES is a two-year professional development program that aims to improve K-6 teachers' understandings of physical science content, science as inquiry, and nature of science, as well as help them teach these ideas in developmentally appropriate ways to their own elementary students. In the second year of the program participants will conduct action research studies on their own instruction to track changes in their students' understandings.
• Student Interest in Science