STEM Learning Is Everywhere Summary of a Convocation on Building Learning Systems (2014) / Chapter Skim
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2 Envisioning the Possible
2 Envisioning the Possible
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• The establishment of teacher advisory councils in every state and district would empower teachers to improve the educa tion system at all levels. • Effective partnership requires that the partners deeply respect and honor each other's unique expertise.
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But it is harder to teach this way than by giving students facts to be memorized, and without outside support, teaching tends to revert to traditional approaches. Alberts provided an example of a curriculum that enables students -- kindergarteners, in this case -- to engage in STEM learning: 1.
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Adults tend to think that the object of science education is to memorize facts and be able to repeat them on tests. In his own field of cell biology, he noted that by the end of their biology classes, many high school students hate cells, because biology classes focus on the names of cell parts and their processes.
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In this way, it is helping to achieve one of the most important goals established by a framework developed by the National Research Council (2012a) that provided the vision and guidance for development of the Next Generation Science Standards: Enable all high school students to "engage in a critical reading of primary scientific literature (adapted for classroom use)
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LESSONS FOR EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS Alberts ended with three lessons he said he has learned about partnerships: 1. Any effective partnership requires that the partners deeply respect and honor each other's unique expertise.
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