STEM, Standards, and Strategies for High-Quality Units - Softcover

Bybee, Rodger W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1681406268 ISBN 13: 9781681406268

Publisher: NSTA Press, 2020

Synopsis

Do you, your school, or your school district want to align your science curriculum with state standards while meeting the growing demand for STEM instruction? If so, this is the book for you. It’s a guide to creating coherent, high-quality classroom materials that make standards and STEM work together in ways that are both effective for learning and practical for teaching. The author of STEM, Standards, and Strategies for High-Quality Units is thought leader and curriculum expert Rodger W. Bybee. He wrote it to be useful for individual teachers, professional learning communities, and professional developers. The book offers explicit directions for how these different groups can use the book’s background information and activities at each step of developing a standards-based STEM unit. Book sections discuss the following: • Making decisions about selecting, adapting, and developing STEM materials • Getting started with preliminary unit designs • Improving your design with new knowledge and skills • Developing your STEM unit • Teaching and improving your unit Throughout the book, Bybee draws on contemporary educational strategies such as the 5E Instructional Model, backward design, and lesson study. “Because most states have new science standards, it only makes sense to incorporate various aspects of those standards in STEM activities,” Bybee writes. STEM, Standards, and Strategies for High-Quality Units can help you do this, whether your school is developing a new STEM program, adapting current instructional materials, or creating new materials of its own.

About this title

About the Author

Rodger W. Bybee is Chair of the Science Forum and Science Expert Group and was a Questionnaire Panel Consultant for Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006. Until 2007, Dr. Bybee was Executive Director of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), a non-profit organization in Colorado Springs, Colorado that develops curriculum materials, provides professional development for the science education community, and conducts research and evaluation on curriculum reform. Prior to joining BSCS, he was Executive Director of the National Research Council’ s (NRC) Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (CSMEE), in Washington, D.C. Between 1985 and 1995, he participated in the development of the National Science Education Standards, and between1992– 1995 he also chaired the content working group of that NRC project.

Edition details

• Publisher: NSTA Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1681406268
• ISBN 13: 9781681406268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190