Fumia_Week 6

I could not resonate any more with the articles from this week. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about how important data and explanations are for our students. I have tried very hard this year to focus on having my students always explain their "evidence." I taught high school biology this past summer at Pearl Cohn and I was very surprised when my junior students struggled so much with analyzing data and reading graphs/charts. Something Elyssa and I noticed together was what our students deemed "reliable." It was interesting reading these articles and thinking back to that realization and also seeing Elyssa noticed this as well.
Going forward I having already started to focus in on making sure students use evidence for all the aspects of their explanation. Thus, I need to make sure I am always holding them accountable to use "reliable" sources. this directly comes back to me as the teacher because i need to make sure I model and explicitly describe what this means. Throughout the articles I really enjoyed the scaffolding questions they gave as examples. It aligned with my belief that scaffolding is extremely important in teaching this skill, I have to make it a norm that we use evidence for every claim we make (that is because I am teaching them to think and do like scientists).