Science Department

To prepare Professional Science Teachers who will be highly proficient in their subject areas, and to create and sustain a conducive environment for quality learning of science

OUR CORE VALUES

1. Integrity: We will demand the highest standard of ourselves to earn the trust of others.
2. Commitment: We will be committed to knowledge generation that positively impacts the lives of those within and outside our college
3. Respect: We will provide others with the best experience that demonstrates our value for

         the diversity and contributions of the members of our community.

     4. Loyalty: We will demonstrate a high sense of spirit and hard work to give back selflessly to our college

     5. Fostering a safe, open, equitable, and inclusive environment in which to learn and work.

   6. Promoting academic freedom through scientific discourse, freedom of expression, constructive criticism, and the use of objective evidence in reasoned arguments.

   7. Advancing collaborative, impactful, and transformative science and teaching that engages all College of Science learners.

8. Delivering transparent science communication to create an educated and prosperous society locally, nationally, and internationally.

Our core principles include:

• Students should be engaged with critical thinking tasks aligned with standardized test questions and practices.
• Students should be exposed to authentic experiences with scientific inquiry, including the design and redesign of ideas.
• Students should reflect on data or feedback and refine their work when experiments do not lead to expected outcomes. They should consider not only simple interpretations of data but also wrestle with the meaning of outliers in data sets.
• Students need to develop scientific literacy skills so that they can access complex technical texts in college