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Welcome to The Science Education Program
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Presentation Overview

• Setting the context
• Guiding the use
• Introducing the tools
• Using the tools in a standards implementation
  process
• Making personal meaning

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Setting the Context

• Connecting the Plenary Session to This Concurrent
  Session on Science Education

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Setting the Context

• NCLB All schools show AYP
• Tools fulfill need from the field
• Content Standards and Benchmarks
• Grade Level PI
• Scope and Sequence
• Instructional Guide

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Setting the Context

• Integration
• Maintain integrity
• Natural integration points as driver
• Backward mapping
• Handout, modified from WestEd
• Standards-based
• Start with end in mind

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Guidelines for Use

• Caveat emptor

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Guidelines for Use

• Not a Curriculum
• Written to address needs by some
• If understood, move on

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Guidelines for Use

• IG not comprehensive, not inclusive
• Tools to start conversation
• Student Work

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Key Idea from the Plenary

• Uses of the Tools
• Assessment Planning
• Performance Indicator Progression, Instructional
  Guide, Curriculum Framework
• Instructional Planning
• Instructional Guide, Curriculum Framework
• Curriculum Planning
• Instructional Guide, Scope and Sequence,
  Curriculum Framework

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Introduction to the Tools
Grade Level Performance Indicators (aka
Performance Indicator Progression) Science K-12
Scope and Sequence Instructional
Guide Curriculum Framework for Science
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GLPI Closer Look at Domain II, 3 Malama I Ka
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GLPI Closer Look at Domain II, 3 Malama I Ka
Aina

• Two parts
• Sustaining Food Supply
• Conservation of Resources
• Where are GLPIs Found?
• Where Not Found?

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Grade Level/Course Performance Indicators

• K-8 is listed by GLPI
• High School by Courses
• Middle School Course of Study
• 6th Grade Physical Sciences Focus
• 7th Grade Biological Sciences Focus
• 8th Grade Earth Systems/Space/EE

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Safety Considerations, Gr. 6

• Conduct activities for which
• You understand the content and pedagogy
• You have appropriate facilities
• There are safety equipment and personal safety
  equipment.

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K-12 Scope and Sequence

• Multiple Pathways
• Idea 1/FOSS and AAAS Project 2061
• Idea 2/STC and AAAS Project 2061

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K-12 Scope and Sequence

• Multiple Pathways, continued
• Idea 3/NCEE and AAAS Project 2061
• Three important ideas per discipline

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K-12 Scope and Sequence

• Domain I cuts across all science disciplines
• Critical Thinking and Inquiry
• Scientific Inquiry
• Safety
• Unifying Themes
• Problem Solving/Environmental Issues

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Conduct the Assessment

• Small group work
• Examine Grade 3 student work for evidence of
  performance indicators
• Write Commentary

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How Good is Good Enough?

• Continue in small groups
• Write performance criteria for clusters of
  performance indicators.
• Describe the task which generated the student
  work.

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Performance Standard
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How Good is Good Enough?

• Develop 4 point Rubric for the Task
• 4 Exceeds standard
• 3 Meets standard
• 2 Not Met Emerging
• 1 Not Met Little or no evidence

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Feedback and Feedforward

• Suggest ways for student to improve on work
• Suggest ways for teacher to modify instruction

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Sample Science Assessment Items and Student Work
National

• http//pals.sri.com (National Science Education
  Standards Large scale assessment and student
  work)
• www.wested.org (PASS/HCPS)
• http//nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/litmrls/
• www.exemplars.com/samples.html

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Opportunity to Learn
Hawaii National Average
Enrolled in 8th Grade Science 2 98
Receiving Science Instruction 34 92
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Opportunity to Learn
Hawaii National Average
Reported Not Taking An 8th Gr. Science Course 46 3

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Hawaii Assessment Program

• PASS (Partnership for the Assessment of Science
  Standards) WestEd
• HCPS-s 5, 7, 11
• NAEP 2004, 2008

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Aligning Programs to HCPS

• Example NASA Curriculum Support Materials

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K-8 Science Reform Programs

• Benefits hands-on vs. Textbook-driven
• NSF accepted data on program effectiveness
• More closely aligned to HCPS and NAEP
• STC and STC/MS
• FOSS
• (Insights)

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Small Group Discussion

• Making Personal Meaning

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Reflection and Exit Pass