NGSS Gets OER PD for Making Science Accessible -- THE Journal

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Summary:

"As teachers develop new, three-dimensional formative assessments aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a new collaborative process is producing open educational resources (OER) to help them reach every student.

The 'Advancing Coherent and Equitable Systems of Science Education' (ACESSE, pronounced "access") project is a is a partnership between the Council of State Science Supervisors, the schools of education at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Washington. The project received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support the work.

NGSS and the National Research Council's 'Framework for K-12 Science Education' is based on a vision that calls for major changes to curriculum, instruction, assessment and involvement of community science resources, to make science more accessible and meaningful to all students. As a two-page brief about ACESSE explained, 'For students and teachers to grow in their understanding and love of science, the messages they hear and the learning opportunities they experiences need to be consistent, cumulative and relevant. Students need to hear and experience the idea that 'people like me do science and engineering'--in order to identify with science as something they can relate to and perhaps contribute to.'

'We want to expand diversity in STEM fields. And for that, we need to improve access to quality STEM education around the country by making learning opportunities more coherent and aligned,' said Bill Penuel, principal investigator for the project and professor of learning sciences and human development at CU Boulder, in coverage on the Institute for Science + Math Education website."

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https://thejournal.com/articles/2017/02/14/ngss-gets-oer-pd-for-making-science-accessible.aspx

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Date tagged:

02/15/2017, 17:23

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02/15/2017, 12:23