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Next Steps for the ngss

Next Steps for the ngss. A skeptic’s view Paul Bruno, 8 th Grade science Watts Learning Center charter middle school. My view of the ngss. Difficult to navigate. My view of the ngss. Extremely vague. My view of the ngss. Too much “skills”, not enough knowledge.

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Next Steps for the ngss

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  1. Next Steps for the ngss A skeptic’s view Paul Bruno, 8th Grade science Watts Learning Center charter middle school

  2. My view of the ngss • Difficult to navigate

  3. My view of the ngss • Extremely vague

  4. My view of the ngss • Too much “skills”, not enough knowledge. • “Research to date provides little guidance about how to help learners aggregate transferable competencies across disciplines. This may be a shortcoming in the research or a reflection of the domain-specific nature of transfer…Foundations and federal agencies should support programs of research designed to illuminate whether, and to what extent, teaching for transfer within an academic discipline can facilitate transfer across disciplines.” – National Research Council, 2012 • “We are unable to find a domain-general, cognitive strategy that has been described and tested for effectiveness using randomized, controlled trialsvarying one factor at a time with far transfer test tasks to eliminate the effects of domain-specific knowledge…[W]hen performing a cognitive task requiring domain-specific knowledge…the presence or absence of this knowledge is the best predictor of performance.” – Tricot & Sweller, Educational Psychology Review, 2013

  5. Challenge #1: Middle school content sequencing • Integrated middle school standards

  6. Challenge #2: Conflicting demands • Standards vs. Tests

  7. Challenge #3: Clarifying the standards • At the national level • At the state level • Science framework revision • Jan/Feb focus groups; apply by Dec 2 • At the school & classroom level

  8. Questions/comments • Paul Bruno, 8th Grade Science • Watts Learning Center Charter Middle School • paulbruno@gmail.com • @MrPABruno • www.paul-bruno.com

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