Developing the NGSS

7/2011 – April 20131/2010 - 7/2011

Phase IIPhase I

NRC Fidelity Review

The NGSS have passed a fidelity review by the NRC.

The review panel was made up of some members from the actual Framework committee and other experts who were familiar with the Framework and NGSS.

The National Academies Press will publish the NGSS in print form. This represents the first time in its history that the NAP is publishing a report that was not developed by a committee or board of the National Academies.

What’s Different about the Next Generation Science Standards?

Three Dimensions Intertwined

The NGSS are written as Performance Expectations

NGSS will require contextual application of the three dimensions by students.

Focus is on how and why as well as what

Science Context

Instructional Shifts in the NGSS

1. Performance Expectations

2. Evidence of learning

3. Learning Progressions

4. Science and Engineering

5. Coherence of Science Instruction

6. Connections within Science and between Common Core State Standards

• Read some stuff

• Do some worksheets

• Write an argumentative passage

• Answer an ORQ

• Take it on faith

• Read some stuff

• Grow some plants and measure soil mass before/after

• Write an argumentative passage

• Prove it to yourself

5-LS1-1. Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the idea that plant matter comes mostly from air and water, not from the soil.]

• Read some stuff

• Do some worksheets

• Write report with data tables or diagrams

• Answer an ORQ

• Take it on faith

• Read some stuff

• Conduct investigations using compounds of varied structures…

• Select an appropriate format…

• Prove it to yourself

HS-PS2-6. Communicate scientific and technical information about why the molecular-level structure is important in the functioning of designed materials.

Crosswalk?

Avoid the folder swap

“The new standards don’t really impact me very much because I

teach high school but I don’t teach biology”

Instruction Builds Toward PEs

Performance Expectations

All Standards, All Students

Appendix D

(1) NGSS Learning Opportunities and Demands for Non-Dominant Student Groups

(2) Effective Strategies in- Science classroom- Home and community- School resources

(3) Context- Demographics- Science achievement- Educational policy

Case Studies

Four Accountability Groups1. Economically disadvantaged students2. Students from major racial and ethnic groups3. Students with disabilities4. Students with limited English proficiency

Three Additional Groups5. Girls6. Students in alternative education programs7. Gifted and talented students

Case Studies

Each Case Study Includes:

(1) Vignette Highlighting: - NGSS connections - CCSS connections for ELA and math - Classroom strategies

(2) Research-Based Classroom Strategies

(3) Context - Demographics - Science achievement - Educational policy

Men in Black: What does tomorrow hold?