Golden Line Chap 2

My 'golden line' came early in the chapter, when the authors were setting the stage for the four strands and they stated: "...a new way of thinking about what it means to be proficient in science and a new framework for achieving proficiency. This framework rests on a view of science as both a body of knowledge and an evidence-based, model-building enterprise that continually extends, refines, and revises knowledge. This moves beyond a focus on the dichotomy between content or knowledge and process skills, recognizing instead that, in science, content and process are inextricably linked.”

For me these lines help clarify my current thinking about teaching science in today’s world. As a science teacher I have a responsibility to instruct my students in how to be consumers of scientific knowledge and information so they can become intelligent decision makers in the future. Science constantly changes and refines, the same information can be interpreted in several different ways. These are the types of experiences I need to help prepare my students for and the quoted lines seemed to be able to say this much better than I ever can.