Oregon State Board of Education March 2013

1. Oregon State Board of EducationMarch 2013 Next Generation Science Standards Update Cheryl Kleckner Education Specialist

2. NGSS Background Achieve NGSS Website • Development Process and Timeline • Online Standards Survey • Support Documents • www.nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards ODE NGSS Website • Timeline of Oregon Lead State Work • Oregon Lead State Review Team • Resources • www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=3508

3. K-12 Science Education Goal for All Students • appreciation of the beauty and wonder of science; • possess sufficient knowledge of science and engineering to engage in public discussions on related issues; • careful consumers of scientific and technological information related to their everyday lives; • able to continue to learn about science outside school; • have the skills to enter careers of their choice A Framework for K-12 Science Education p. ES 2 • Released in July 2011; free PDF online • www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Standards_Framework_Homepage.html

4. NGSS Vision • Learning as a developmental progression • Engaging students in scientific investigations and argumentation to achieve deeper understanding of core science ideas • Integrating the knowledge of scientific explanations and the practices needed to engage in scientific inquiry and engineering design KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE MUST BE INTERTWINED IN LEARNING EXPERIENCES

5. Interconnected Dimensions • Scientific and Engineering Practices • Crosscutting Concepts • Core Ideas in Science

6. Scientific and Engineering Practices • Asking questions and defining problems • Developing and using models • Planning and carrying out investigations • Analyzing and interpreting data • Using mathematics and computational thinking • Developing explanations and designing solutions • Engaging in argument • Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

7. Crosscutting Concepts • Patterns • Cause and effect • Scale, proportion, and quantity • Systems and system models • Energy and matter • Structure and function • Stability and change

8. Oregon Science Standards Framework Science Content Knowledge Science Process Skills* Abilities to do Scientific Inquiry Nature, History, and Interaction of Science and Technology Abilities to do Engineering Design Nature, History, and Interaction of Technology and Science Physical Life Earth and Space * The Science Process Skills align with the Oregon Essential Skills

9. NGSS Architecture Integration of 3 Dimensions: Practices Crosscutting Concepts Core Ideas

10. NGSS Architecture Performance Expectations

11. NGSS Architecture Performance Expectations Foundation Boxes Based on NRC Framework and expanded into Matrices Based on NRC Framework and expanded into Matrices NRC Framework language from Grade Band Endpoints

12. NGSS Architecture Performance Expectations Foundation Boxes Connection Boxes

13. Summary: Shifts in the Teaching and Learning of Science • Organize around limited number of core ideas. Favor depth and coherence over breadth of coverage. • Core ideas need to be revisited in increasing depth, and sophistication across years. Focus needs to be on connections: • Careful construction of a storyline – helping learners build sophisticated ideas from simpler explanations, using evidence. • Connections between scientific disciplines, using powerful ideas (nature of matter, energy) across life, physical, and environmental sciences

14. NGSS Current Work • January 2013 Last Public Draft • Online Survey • 2,643 Oregon Responses • More than 177,000 Responses • Writers are Currently Revising NGSS • Final NGSS by April 2013

15. Resources Instruction Curricula Professional Learning Assessments Lots of work underway and ahead

16. NGSS Support Documents • Conceptual Shifts • Responses to May Public Feedback • College and Career Readiness • All Standards, All Students • Disciplinary Core Idea Progressions • Science and Engineering Practices / Matrix • Crosscutting Concepts / Matrix • Nature of Science • Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science • Model Course Mapping in Middle and High School • Connections to CCSS-Mathematics

17. Building Capacity for State Science Education • Multi-year National Project to Support NGSS • Organized by the Council of State Science Supervisors • Funded by Scientific Foundations and Corporations • 5 Member Team from Each State • Interaction with National Science Education Experts • Collaborative Time to Develop Resources to Support Instruction and Models for Professional Development • Team Time to Plan • Next Workshop in June 2013

18. Achieve and EDI Support State Collaborative Institute: • Twenty States Participated • Organized by Achieve • Funded by Scientific Foundations and Corporations • 5 Member Team from Each State • Collaborative and Team Time with Planning Process

19. NGSS Exemplar PD System • National Science Foundation Funded Grant • Clark University, Northwestern University, • and Tidemark Institute • Oregon is a Pilot State • 3 Groups of 15 Teachers • Rural and Metro School Districts • Web-based PD • Library of Tools, Tasks, and Resources

20. Student learning targets in Framework & NGSS Cluster of performance expectations Productive Talk Strategies Examples of student work Linked resources Progression of student ideas Curriculum materials Classroom video case Scientist and Engineer Essays Teacher planning/reflection narrative Overview of Scientific Practices Video analysis tools Learning pathways Pre-service Course 2 Day Summer Institute Teacher Study Group Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 How NGSS involves scientific practices; supports coherence;involves working with student ideas Professional Learning Goals

21. Future Work • Review the Final NGSS • Engage Stakeholders • Identify Issues and Challenges • Create Timeline and Plan • Develop Recommendations • Continue Collaborative Work

22. Questions?Thank you!