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Elaine V. Howes | Science Educator
Dr. Elaine V. Howes joined BSCS as a Science Educator in July of 2010. Since that time, she has worked with colleagues on Toward High School Biology: Helping Middle School Teachers and Students Make Sense of High School Biology. This collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science aims to help eighth-grade students and their teachers make connections among fundamental chemistry concepts and the life sciences.
Elaine is also active in the Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) professional development project, an NSF-funded effort that supports elementary teachers in improving their science education practice through videocase analysis. Via these activities and others, Elaine is continuing her established interest in working with teachers and other colleagues to create curriculum and instruction that support all students in succeeding in science. Toward this end, she is also active in the organization’s Equity Committee, working to develop BSCS’s impact on teachers’ learning to teach science well with traditionally under-served students.
Elaine’s career in education includes four years of high school teaching, and 16 years as a teacher educator and researcher with Michigan State University (MSU), Teachers College, Columbia, and the University of South Florida. Elaine has published Connecting Girls and Science (Teachers College Press, 2002); a book based on her teaching and informed by both feminist and constructivist science education perspectives. This work reflects an understanding, from "the teacher's side of the desk," of the infinite possibilities for inquiry that inhabit any classroom's activities.
Elaine's work with preservice and inservice teachers has led to publications focusing on teachers' practices in working with English Language Learners in science, elementary preservice students' visions of science and science teaching, and, most recently, the challenges involved in developing environmentally and culturally relevant science curriculum for grades K–8 classrooms. Her ongoing interests focus in the development and study of curriculum and instruction attentive to cultural values and perspectives.
Elaine received her B.S. in Biology from Oakland University, a secondary science teacher certification in a post-baccalaureate program and a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy from MSU.
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