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What are your hopes and fears about the Revised Washington State K-12 Science Standards?

What are your hopes and fears about the Revised Washington State K-12 Science Standards? . Welcome! Navigating Washington State’s New Science Standards. Presenter Event Date and Location. After today I will…. Know why we have new science standards.

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What are your hopes and fears about the Revised Washington State K-12 Science Standards?

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  1. What are your hopes and fears about the Revised Washington State K-12 Science Standards?

  2. Welcome!Navigating Washington State’s New Science Standards Presenter Event Date and Location

  3. After today I will…. Know why we have new science standards. Understand how the new science standards document is organized. Identify the Big Ideas of the new science standards document. Be able to use the document to identify what students in my grade band should know and be able to do.

  4. Why New Standards? • In 2007 the Washington State Legislature passed HB 1906 calling for: • The State Board of Education to review our current science standards. • OSPI to revise the science standards.

  5. Why New Standards? • Better prepare students to: • Participate in post-secondary education • Meet the workforce needs of tomorrow • Contribute to the future of our state and the world as scientifically literate citizens • Provide a tool for teachers to use in identifying learning outcomes.

  6. Characteristics of the Revised Science Standards

  7. Overview

  8. Standards

  9. Group Assignments Group 1 – Science standards grade band summary page. Group 2 — Summary paragraph at the top of each page. Group 3 —Content Standards and Performance Expectations Group 4 — Math Connections

  10. Process What You Heard • Stand Up. • Find someone in the room you have not talked to before. • Summarize what you just heard.

  11. Appendices • Glossary • Big Ideas Evolution Matter Structure & Function Ecosystems Force & Motion Earth in Space Earth Structures Energy Earth History

  12. Find a topic in the Standards you already teach. • Could my students meet these performance expectations? • What’s the big idea of which this topic is a part?

  13. Putting it all together • Organized by Big Ideas. • Teach for mastery. • Do not repeat topics. • Fewer topics in greater depth.

  14. Crosscutting Conceptsand Abilities • Systems • Inquiry • Application • In the standards these are included as content, not teaching methods.

  15. Next Step:School or District Planning • Decide on grade level placement by “sliding” science units up or down within grade bands. • Professional development on Inquiry in the State Standards.

  16. What is mine to Decide? • Determine the best teaching methods • How to meet your students’ needs • How to excite your students about science!

  17. Revisiting Hopes and Fears • What changed in your thinking? • Thank you for coming! • Please fill out an Exit Note.

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