Active Biology and the
National Science Education Standards
Active Biology was designed and developed to provide teachers with instructional strategies that model the following from the National Science Education Standards:
Guide and facilitate learning
- Focus and support inquiries while interacting with students.
- Orchestrate discourse among students about scientific ideas.
- Challenge students to accept and share responsibility for their own learning.
- Recognize and respond to student diversity; encourage all to participate fully
in science learning.
- Encourage and model the skills of scientific inquiry as well as the curiosity and openness to new ideas and data and skepticism that characterize science
Engage in ongoing assessment of their teaching and student learning
- Use multiple methods and systematically gather data about student understanding and ability.
- Analyze assessment data to guide teaching.
- Guide students in self-assessment.
Design and manage learning environments that provide students with time, space and resources needed for learning science
- Structure the time available so students are able to engage in extended investigations.
- Create a setting for student work that is flexible and supportive of science inquiry.
- Make available tools, materials, media, and technological resources accessible
to students.
- Identify and use resources outside of school.
Develop communities of science learners that reflect the intellectual rigor
of scientific attitudes and social values conducive to science learning
- Display and demand respect for diverse ideas, skills, and experiences of students.
- Enable students to have significant voice in decisions about content and context
of work and require students to take responsibility for the learning of all members of the community.
- Nurture collaboration among students.
- Structure and facilitate ongoing formal and informal discussion based on shared understanding of rules.
- Model and emphasize the skills, attitudes and values of scientific inquiry.
Assessment Standards- Features claimed to be measured are actually measured.
- Students have adequate opportunity to demonstrate their achievement and understanding.
- Assessment tasks are authentic and developmentally appropriate, set in familiar context, and engaging to students with different interests and experiences.
- Assesses student understanding as well as knowledge.
- Improve classroom practice and plan curricula.
- Develop self-directed learners.
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