The ambitious teacher is someone who “works with students’ ideas” over time. Ambitious teaching deliberately aims to support students of all backgrounds to deeply understand science ideas, participate in the activities of the discipline, and solve authentic problems.
Ambitious teaching is supported by four sets of core practices that work together throughout every unit of study.
4. Finally the teacher scaffolds students’ efforts to put everything together near the end of a unit (Pressing for evidence-based explanations).
To read more about each phase of instruction, obtain tools, see some examples and watch videos of Ambitious Science Teaching in action, head over to the Ambitious Science Teaching Website.