Harold Pratt – hpratt@comcast.com

Francis Eberle - feberle@nsta.org

How to Engage Science Educators in the Public Review of the Next Generation Science Standards

Purpose of Session

Have a voice Learn how to conduct a review

or discussion Providing feedback to Achieve To begin think what it will take

to help others use these standards

Instruction

Curricula

Assessments

Teacher development

Framework and Standards

NRCJuly 2011

Achieve, Inc.Public drafts April 2012 => Summer 2012

Final version projected Dec 2012

NGSS Lead State Partners

Integration of the Three Dimensions

Core IdeasPractices

Crosscutting Concepts

The practices are the processes of building and using the core ideas to make sense of the natural and designed world, and the cross cutting concepts hold the discipline together.

NSTA role with the NGSS Part of a Partnership – The National

Academies of Science (the NRC), American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Science Teachers Association and Achieve Inc.

Provided guidance and reviews directly to the National Research Council and Achieve

Provided names of teachers for writers on the writing teams

Resources to Conduct a Review

NSTA Guide for Conducting a Review Sample Agendas and Facilitator Guides Suggested Questions Checklist

(Will be available at www.nsta.org/ngss)

Organizing a Review of NGSSA Checklist

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• Determine scope of group review and select full-day/half-day agenda

• Establish time and location (wifi access?)• Invite participants• Prepare participants

--Be familiar with Framework and other standards

--Send background reading/resources, agenda, questions 

• Assign individuals to teams and assign teams to specific standards

• Facilitate meeting• Collect group feedback and fill out Achieve survey or

encourage members to provide individual feedback

Membership of Review Group

Ideal minimum group (16) (2 reviewers) K, 1, 2(2 reviewers) 3, 4, 5(2 reviewers) Middle level Life Science(2 reviewers) Middle level Physical Science(2 reviewers) Middle level Earth/Space Science(2 reviewers) High School Life Science(2 reviewers) High School Physical Science(2 reviewers) High School Earth/Space Science

Engineering ??

Organizing a Review of NGSSA Checklist

•   

• Determine scope of group review and select full-day/half-day agenda

• Establish time and location (wifi access?)• Invite participants• Prepare participants

--Be familiar with Framework and other standards

--Send background reading/resources, agenda, questions 

• Assign individuals to teams and assign teams to specific standards

• Facilitate meeting• Collect group feedback and fill out Achieve survey or

encourage members to provide individual feedback

Organizing a Review of NGSSA Checklist

•   

• Determine scope of group review and select full-day/half-day agenda

• Establish time and location (wifi access?)• Invite participants• Prepare participants

--Be familiar with Framework and other standards

--Send background reading/resources, agenda, questions 

• Assign individuals to teams and assign teams to specific standards

• Facilitate meeting• Collect group feedback and fill out Achieve survey or

encourage members to provide individual feedback

QUESTIONS

Section I. Core IdeasA. Clarity and Specificity

B. Integrated Performance Expectations

C. Coherence of Performance Expectations

D. AchievabilityE. Instructional Implications

QUESTIONS cont.

Section II. Scientific and Engineering Practices

Section III. Crosscutting Concepts

Section IV. Engineering Design

Section V.Nature of Science

Suggested Agenda for Reviewing NGSS

Introductions & Review of Task (45 min.) Section I. (90 min.) Section II. (45 min.) Section III. (45 min.) Section IV. (60 min.) Section V. (20 min.) Wrap Up (30 min.)

Reminder

Depth of review is more important than

Covering many or all the standards!!

Organizing a Review of NGSSA Checklist

•   

• Determine scope of group review and select full-day/half-day agenda

• Establish time and location (wifi access?)• Invite participants• Prepare participants

--Be familiar with Framework and other standards

--Send background reading/resources, agenda, questions 

• Assign individuals to teams and assign teams to specific standards

• Facilitate meeting• Collect group feedback and fill out Achieve survey or

encourage members to provide individual feedback

Resources related to the Next Generation Science StandardsNational Research Council:

www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13165#toc

Achieve: www.nextgenscience.org

NSTA: www.nsta.org/ngss– Guide for Leading Study Group on NGSS Draft– Latest News and Updates– Web Seminars and Upcoming Events– NSTA Reader’s Guide to Framework – NSTA Journal Series on Framework– COMPASS