Science Education

Administration

  • Donald DeRosa, EdD
    Program Coordinator; Clinical Assistant Professor
    617-353-4052
    donder@bu.edu
  • Peter Garik, PhD
    Clinical Associate Professor
    617-353-4735
    garik@bu.edu
  • Douglas Zook, PhD
    Associate Professor
    617-353-2030
    dzook@bu.edu

The Science Education Program focuses on preparing effective pre-service and in-service teachers and education researchers. Emphasis is on preparing educators and leaders in science education who are knowledgeable about the content and process of their discipline, well informed about the current trends in science education, and equipped to grow with the changes in educational research and technology of the 21st century.

Healthy Futures Education Initiative

The science education program values a rich, multifaceted emphasis on science content and teaching strategies across disciplines. This includes an integrated focus with a global, environmental theme. Through this focus, those students in science education studying to become science teachers receive timely training on environmental themes. This exposure revolves around the Global Ecology graduate course and Global Ecology Education certificate. The science behind global warming concerns and the need for alternative energy must be integrated into the core of young people’s learning. This initiative, woven into the methods classes in science education and within many content courses offered, will help prepare youth for a future where human beings can act more compatibly with the Earth.

Many Healthy Futures Initiatives originate with sedGreen, which is a unique changing collective of students, faculty, and staff who meet regularly and devote time to making SED and the University overall more sustainable and energy-efficient. Accomplishments in the past five years include having solar panels installed on the SED roof—the first School in the University to do so, establishing a “Powering Down—Greening Up” campaign to have electrical power use reduced, and establishing the University’s most successful recycling program.