Clinical Assistant Professor in Science Education

New York University, New York, NY

updated August, 2023

email me: benjamin.lowell [at] nyu [dot] edu

I am a former high school chemistry and environmental science teacher and current clinical assistant professor at NYU. I work in the NYU Teacher Residency to support science teachers across the east coast to develop their ability to plan and implement culturally responsive, practice-based science teaching. I also support residents in the New York City area as a residency director. I earned my PhD in science education from Boston College in May of 2022. Broadly, I am interested in how teachers learn to teach science as a process for making sense of natural phenomena rather than a set of facts to be memorized. This focus has included projects examining how middle school teachers take up, use, and customize reform-based science curriculum, how high school chemistry teachers makes sense of professional development around the science practices, and how instructional leaders learn about and support teacher learning of the science practices.