Beyond the concern of employability looms the larger question of what it takes to thrive in today’s society. Citizens now face problems from pandemics.

Beyond the concern of employability looms the larger question of what it takes to thrive in today’s society. Citizens now face problems from pandemics to energy shortages whose solutions require all the scientific and technological genius we can muster.

Achieve, Inc. Linda K. Jordan State Science

Supervisor May 23, 2012

But, Before We Begin…

Purpose of Public Review:

To distribute information and obtain feedback from interested stakeholders through a transparent, yet managed process

Three week Public Review period ends June 1 Survey available at: www.nextgenscience.org  Second Public Review in fall, 2012 Final draft to be released in 2013 Will replace existing TN Science Standards

Misconception Alert!!!

What is the wackiest thing that you’ve heard so far about the NGSS???

The Problem with Misconceptions

Erroneous or incomplete ideas and beliefs.

Tend to be pervasive. Often comprised of logically

linked propositions that are used in systematic ways.

Highly resistant to change by traditional teaching methods.

Our Challenge as STEM Leaders

with Respect to NGSS

Apply a clear and consistent message that moves audiences from misconceptions to

accurate understanding.

Assumption 1: This audience is familiar with the Conceptual

Framework

Dated Standards: Fifteen years since science standards first appeared.

Economic Needs: U.S. has a leaky K–12 STEM talent pipeline.

21st Century Knowledge and Skills: prepare high school graduates for the rigors of college, careers, and citizenship.

NGSS Driver: Need for Change

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NGSS Driver:Research on Teaching and

Learning

NGSS Driver:Framework Guiding Principles

Children are born investigators who strive to make sense of and influence their world.

Students build their knowledge and skills over multiple years.

Science and Engineering incorporate both knowledge and practices.

By end of High School, ALL students should be critical consumers on scientific information and have a current understanding of the natural and human-made worlds.

NGSS Driver: Framework Vision K-12

Education

Over multiple years students engage in scientific investigations and engineering design projects. Students apply Crosscutting Concepts to deepen their understanding of disciplinary Core Ideas. Students have learning experiences that explore fundamental questions about the world and with how scientists investigated and answered those questions.

Conceptual Framework to Draft

Next Generation Science Standards

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Assumption 2: this audience is familiar with the general organization of the NGSS

Three Major Dimensions

NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS

“SCIENCE &ENGINEERING PRACTICES”

NGSS DIMENSION ONE

Scientific Inquiry Engineering DesignAsk a question Define a problem

Obtain, evaluate and communicate technical information

Obtain, evaluate and communicate technical information

Plan investigations Plan designs and tests

Develop and use models Develop and use models

Design and conduct tests of experiments or models

Design and conduct tests of prototypes or models

Analyze and interpret data Analyze and interpret data

Use mathematics and computational thinking

Use mathematics and computational thinking

Construct explanations using evidence

Design solutions using evidence

Engage in argument using evidence

Engage in argument using evidence

Engineering and Science:Similarities and Differences

NGSS DIMENSION TWO

NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS

“CROSSCUTTING CONCEPTS”

Science for All Americans, 1989

Some important themes pervade science, mathematics, and technology and appear over and over again, whether we are looking at an ancient civilization, the human body, or a comet. They are ideas that transcend disciplinary boundaries and prove fruitful in explanation, in theory, in observation, and in design.

2012…“Cross-Cutting Concepts”

“Provide… an organizing framework for connecting knowledge from the various disciplines into a coherent and scientifically based view of the world.”

Patterns Cause and Effect Scale, Proportion, and Quantity Systems and System Models Energy and Matter Structure and FunctionStability and Change

NGSS DIMENSION THREE

NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS

“DISCIPLINARY CORE IDEAS”

Disciplinary Core Ideas

Physical Sciences Matter and its interactionsMotion and stability: Forces and interactionsEnergyWaves and their applications in technologies for information transfer

Life Sciences From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and processesEcosystems: Interactions, energy, and dynamicsHeredity: Inheritance and variation of traitsBiological Evolution: Unity and diversity

Earth and Space SciencesEarth’s place in the universeEarth’s systemsEarth and human activity

Engineering, Technology and Applications of ScienceEngineering designLinks among engineering, technology,Science, and society

Integrating the Three Dimensions

Disciplinary Core Ideas

Scientific &

Engineering Practices

Crosscutting

ConceptsPractices are the processes of using Core Ideas to make sense of the natural and designed world, and the Cross Cutting Concepts hold the disciplines together.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

Science & Engineering Practices

Crosscutting

Concepts

“Communicating information about the relationship between/

Next Generation Science Standards

Actionable, explicit learning goals for students and instructional targets for teachers.

the structure and function of/special structures within cells.”

NGSS Standards: Key Points

Four Domains: Life science, earth and space science, physical sciences, and engineering technology, and applications of science.

Broad importance across disciplines or qualify as basic organizing principles within a particular area of science.

Teachable over multiple years at increasing levels of depth and sophistication…Progressions.

Grade level endpoints indicated by “boundary statements” based on research when available.

NGSS Public Draft Review

Conceptual Shifts in NGSS: i.e., New Emphases

1. NGSS focus on deeper Understanding and Application of content.

2. Science and Engineering are Integrated across K-12 Science Education.

3. Science concepts build Coherently across K–12 (progressions).

4. Science and Engineering Practices and Crosscutting Concepts should always be integrated with multiple core concepts throughout the year and not be taught in a vacuum.

5. K–12 Science Education should reflect Real World connections.

6. Science Standards coordinate with English Language Arts and Mathematics Common Core State Standards.

How to Read the Next Generation Science

Standards

Official NGSS Website: http://www.nextgenscience.or

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Framework, NGSS, Future

Instruction

Curricula

Assessments

Teacher Development

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Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition

Challenge Questions: 1. How can we heighten the level of

understanding of NGSS?2. What steps should we take to plan for NGSS

implementation?

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