<p>Effective science teaching requires creativity, imagination, and innovation. In light of concerns about American science literacy, scientists and educators have struggled to teach this discipline more effectively. <i>Science Teaching Reconsidered</i> provides undergraduate science educators with a path to understanding students, accommodating their individual differences, and helping them grasp the methods?and the wonder?of science.</p> <p>What impact does teaching style have? How do I plan a course curriculum? How do I make lectures, classes, and laboratories more effective? How can I tell what students are thinking? Why don't they understand? This handbook provides productive approaches to these and other questions.</p> <p>Written by scientists who are also educators, the handbook offers suggestions for having a greater impact in the classroom and provides resources for further research.</p>