Students enter Emily Daniels' and Maureen Squires' combined Bachelor of Arts/Master's in the Science of Teaching Program as undergraduates or move into their MST Program as Master's candidates matriculating after they have earned Bachelor's degree elsewhere. Both groups of students take the research class during their first semester of graduate…

To meet the immense challenges society faces in areas such as energy, health, and environmental protection, science teachers and teacher educators need to invest in the creation of classroom cultures that turn the intellectual heavy lifting over to the students while developing students' identities as competent learners. The vision is that…