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“Facts are not science—as the dictionary is not literature.”

—Martin H. Fischer (1944) 1

DO NOW- BASELINE

• What are the current Pedagogical strategies you use? 

• How do you anticipate you might adapt your current pedagogical strategies to meet the needs of NGSS? 

• What strategies do you want to try out?

• What are some barriers you experienced or foresee?

PADLET

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INTRODUCTIONS

3What strategies do you want to try out?

AGENDA

Baseline Padlet Welcome DQ: How Do the NGSS conceptual shifts

impact pedagogy? Adapting Pedagogy to NGSS Research Pedagogical Strategies

cmsce.rutgers.edu go to Events then NGSS Series

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ENTRY POINT

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CONCEPTUAL SHIFTS

• K–12 science education should reflects real-world interconnections in science.

• The NGSS are student outcomes and are explicitly NOT curriculum.

• Science concepts build coherently across K–12.

• The NGSS focus on deeper understanding and application of content.

• Science and engineering are integrated in K–12 science education.

• The NGSS are designed to prepare students for college, careers, and citizenship.

• Science standards coordinate with English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics Common Core State Standards. 6

HOW DO THE NGSS CONCEPTUAL SHIFTS IMPACT PEDAGOGY?

• Using Appendix A and The NGSS Overview sheet (S&E Practices) Discuss at your table

• Capture your groups ideas on the titanpad

• Share out

https://rutgerscmsce.titanpad.com/76

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CONCEPTUAL SHIFTS IN NGSS

• Organized around DCI

• Central role of scientific practices

• Coherence building and applying ideas across time.

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TWO SCENARIOSWe’re talking about convection currents…

We’re figuring out how hot air balloons work…

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FRAMING – REFLECT ON YOUR CLASSROOM• Confirmatory vs. Exploratory?

• How are you framing the tasks in your classroom?

• What do the students think they are doing and why?

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ADAPTING PEDAGOGY TO NGSS ACTIVITY:PART 1- FIRST TWO COLUMNS

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Work in small groups to complete the activity

POSSIBLE PEDAGOGY STRATEGIES FOR NGSS

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Part 2: Research Strategies on Blendspace

ADAPTING PEDAGOGY TO NGSS ACTIVITY:PART 3- LAST COLUMN

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BEST PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES THAT FIT NGSS AND YOUR NEEDS - INDIVIDUAL• Compete Research

• Identify what strategies that work for you (is it one or a hybrid of many?)

• On a sheet of paper, write your strategies and why you chose those and hang it up on the wall.

• If done early, begin crafting a lesson with the new pegagogical strategy.

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EXIT TICKET

• How do you feel about pedagogical shifts with NGSS?

• What one main resource/idea will you take way from today’s session?

• What suggestions/feedback do you have for us?

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