1. Lecture by Dr. Donna Mahar
Jake Lederman, Tami Gilbeaux

2. Dr. O’Conner starts us off. Although
she doesn’t have any hair in at this
moment, I choose not to make a bald
joke.

3. 5 Practices
Develop Dedication
Build Self-
Efficacy
Show Students
the Text’s Value
Use Social
Motivation
Give Students
Choices

4. WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!

5. • Use a variety of texts in addition to the text book.
Develop • Show students they can dig deeper.
Dedication
• Show students they can learn from text books
• Students need to successfully learn from readings.
Build Self
Efficacy • Continuously challenge students with readings that increase in difficulty.
• Use and apply text book information in the classroom.
Text’s • Show students that readings can be helpful in their education.
Value
• Use collaborative exercises in the classroom to help students solidify knowledge and
learn how to consider other opinions.
Social
Motivation
• If possible, allow students to arrive at an answer on their own.
• Allow students to have influence over types of readings and activities
Student’s • Allow students to voice their theories and help prove or disprove them.
Choice

6. OUR MEETING
We were supposed to be in Pod
10, but I kept hearing Dr.
O’Conner’s voice in the sound
check pod and it was quite
distracting. So we moved to a
nicer place.
Jake ederman
Tami
Gilbeau

7. Questions for the Dr.
1) Many students observed are reading below
their grade level. How do we, as science
teachers, increase their reading level while
meeting all of our other goals (especially
passing high stakes tests)?

8. And….
2) If text books are eventually phased out, how
much money can actually be saved to spend on
other teaching materials inquiry based
classrooms?

9. Finally…
3) Which practices mentioned in your
presentation have you personally used, and
found to be effective in motivating students to
read and use informative texts?

10. It was nice to hear what we have been reading
about in our class reinforced, and spoken about
by other educators. It lets us know we are on
the right path to a hopefully effective career.