Ed Source – Theresa Harrington
“Many teachers are not well-prepared to teach the new Next Generation Science Standards, according to new report released Tuesday. Called “Science Teachers’ Learning: Enhancing Opportunities, Creating Supportive Contexts,” the report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine makes several recommendations to help educators transition to the standards, which emphasize deeper learning of broad scientific concepts instead of memorizing facts and stress the relationship between what is taught in the classroom and workplace practices of scientists and engineers. California adopted the Next Generation Science Standards in 2013. They are expected to be fully implemented by 2018. “An evolving understanding of how best to teach science, including the NGSS, represents a significant transition in the way science is currently taught in most classrooms and will require most science teachers to alter the way they teach,” the report concluded.”(more)