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Beerer, Karen M.; Bodzin, Alec M. – Journal of Staff Development, 2004
A Pennsylvania district used study groups to help teachers districtwide change their science teaching to standards-based practice of inquiry. Standards-based inquiry instruction requires that teachers have a deeper content knowledge as well as understand the process of inquiry. Making those changes requires support and a collegial environment.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teachers, Science Instruction, Community Schools