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Daniel Levin

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  • Daniel M. Levin earned his PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in science education at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he also served as a lecturer, teaching courses in science teaching methods, action research and biological science. Before pursing his doctorate, he taught public school for nine years in secondary schools in the Washington DC, metropolitan area. He began his teaching career as a middle school science teacher, where he eventually also served as the science department chair. He has also taught high school biology, chemistry, science research methods, Earth science, and environmental science and served as coordinator of the Science, Mathematics, and Technology Academy at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD. Before teaching, Dr. Levin held positions as a research biologist at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University. His dissertation and ongoing research program focus on understanding how and when science teachers attend to the substance of students’ scientific thinking and how what teachers attend to is shaped and constrained by the cultural systems in which they work.

  • Degrees

    PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland
    MAT, Secondary Science Education, Towson University
    BA, cum laude, Biology and Anthropology, Brandeis University

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  • CAS - Education/Teaching/Health
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Partnerships & Affiliations

  • American Educational Research Association

    Member

  • National Association of Research in Science Teaching

    Member

  • Association for Science Teacher Education

    Member

  • National Science Teachers Association

    Member

Teaching

  • Fall 2009

    • EDU-540 Meth, Matrl, Mgmt in Sec Ed I: Science
    • Description
    • EDU-540 Meth, Matrl, Mgmt in Sec Ed I: Science
    • Description

  • Spring 2010

    • EDU-542 Meth, Matrl, Mgmt in Sec Ed II: Science
    • Description
    • EDU-542 Meth, Matrl, Mgmt in Sec Ed II: Science
    • Description
    • EDU-542 Meth, Matrl, Mgmt in Sec Ed II: Science
    • Description
    • EDU-696 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Action Research in Classroom
    • Description

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • 2003-2006, Master Science Teacher, Montgomery County Public Schools

  • 1998  National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Summer Teacher Fellowship

  • 1996, Maryland State Senatorial Scholarship for Graduate Study

  • 1989, Cum laude graduate, Brandeis University

Professional Presentations

  • Levin, D.M., Gillespie, C. & Richards, J. (April, 2009) Understanding how and when novice teachers attend to student thinking. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.  
  • Levin, D.M., & Richards, J. (January, 2009)  Developing a professional vision for science education reform teaching. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Science Teacher Education, Hartford, CT.  
  • Levin, D.M., Hammer, D., & Bybee, M.. (April, 2007). Novice teachers’ attention to student thinking:  Confronting stage-based models of teacher development. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Ill.  
  • Levin, D.M., Coffey, J., Hammer, D., Sanyal, A., and Hopkins, N. (April, 2007). Teachers’ attention to student thinking in social and institutional systems. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Ill.  
  • Levin, D.M., Hutchison, P., & Honda, S. (April, 2005). Teacher thinking about student inquiry. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada  
  • Levin, D.M., Azevedo, R., Winters, F.I., & Cromley, J.G. (April, 2004). How does a teacher scaffold students' self-regulated learning during a collaborative science inquiry investigation in GenScope? Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Selected Publications

  • Levin, D.M., Hammer, D., and Coffey, J.E.  (2009). Novice teachers’ attention to student thinking. Journal of Teacher Education 60 (2): 142-154 

    Levin, D. M. (2008). What secondary science teachers pay attention to in the classroom: Situating teaching in institutional and social systems, Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park. 
  • Levin, D.M., Coffey, J.E., and Hammer, D. (in review). Systemic influences on what teachers attend to.

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