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A teacher's role is to offer encouragement in moments of frustration. She's also there to remind them that the lab is set up to assist them. A student's reaction to a chemical reaction in eggshells is what determines the percentage of calcium carbonate.
A teacher's role is to offer encouragement in moments of frustration. She's also there to remind them that the lab is set up to assist them. A student's reaction to a chemical reaction in eggshells is what determines the percentage of calcium carbonate.
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A teacher's role is to offer encouragement in moments of frustration. She's also there to remind them that the lab is set up to assist them. A student's reaction to a chemical reaction in eggshells is what determines the percentage of calcium carbonate.
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CHAPTER FOUR
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THE ACADEMY OF THE PACIFIC
RIM CHARTER SCHOOL
Paving the Way to Adulthood
‘They‘e wearing ab goggles ike is ld hat, thei adolescent bodies moving
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ton bounces rom fotbll othe presidential primaries tothe mass of calcium
‘carbonate ineggsells—the subject of todays experiment. Very fw ofthe fi-
teen students in this leventh-grade chemistry clase a able fo sit sill while
they walt forthe chemical reaction to take place. They mail around the large
rectangular tables, checking on ther lassmater beakers and “massing the
funnel pape” for the next step in the proces theyve designed. The teacher, a
slight Asan woman witha wise smile alternates sting at able engaging in
‘casual cit chat wth her primarily Aican American students and wandering
bout the room doing small tasks to occupy here. Av she casually ays por
per towels on aback table, anticipating the clet-up proces coming ltr she
‘entertains a student complaint that "This is gonna take ages” She responds
sSlowiy, "Patience Isa viet”
Teiset particularly odd thatthe teacher doce havea lotto do during this
‘lass period. Afterall the students designed the experiment and they‘ in
charge of carrying it out Yesterday she asked them to igure outa way to de-
termine the percentage of calcium carbonate in eggshells and today they are
‘on their own, working in small clusters to atulie thelr plan Her role today
‘The primary autho forth caper it Kes Cope7. se uma curr sees
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tense det when ending eperiments tse blr tht yee
sth ree the saoldng iin plat, and sends to encourage her ters
to think for themsives, She fakes «certain pen knowing they cn ape
sethouther and she reds thispedagopil decison to eedback em lama
‘no have returned o complain hat instruction in he eleventh and eth
trades aso ny ere the Academy ofthe Pac im, Tischer now
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the Pcie Rim, who are ntenton developing indepenenc int ste
1 they grow and mature ars the choos grade open rade ve ugh
twee: The dean a tude nine yee veteran the school explain the
Schoo phlsopy and sey fr developing student independence over
‘The mld school is moretop dows, more structured The teachers do mote
‘ofthe join terms feet instruction, and the aents access the content
thatthe teachers provide But, weve piled bak inthe high schoo, which
is more geared towards student partption trying to get students to try
‘ut courses and tke leadership roles and relly paticpate mach more it
the planning delivery. and even voretimes the evaluation of lessons so that
‘they are that muh moe prepared to navigate the world on their own
Indeed, instruction is often more structured i the middle school grades,
and efforts to develop and massage academic sls ze evident, While theit
‘older counterparts design and carey ou original experiments and meander
collegial about the chemistry lb, twenty-three seventh graders down the
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