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Dear colleagues,

 

NSTA is looking for exemplary teachers and programs which illustrate
full (or open) inquiry.  See information below.  Please forward this to
others you think will be interested and/or consider submitting your own
nomination.

 

Dennis

 

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Looking for Exemplary Science Programs (ESP) that Illustrate Inquiry

 

            As the 2008 year approaches, the NSTA National Advisory
Board (NAB) invites your help in identifying 15 programs for the 2008
Exemplary Science Program Monograph.  The sixth monograph in the series
now requests nominations for recognizing teachers and schools.   Inquiry
has become a word that all respect and admire - almost religiously.
Most teachers, textbook authors, curriculum developers, and the general
public see it important and purport to use it.  However, in actual
practice it often has a word like guided, completed, or even "directed"
used with it as an adjective.  But could scientists be so restrained??

            The 2008 ESP monograph will focus on teachers and programs
which illustrate full (or open) inquiry. This means that it starts with
student curiosities and questions followed by student attempts to deal
with their own curriculum and attempt to provide answers.  Of course the
main ingredient for scientific inquiry is collecting evidence from
others to evaluate and to establish validity to the ideas and solutions
proposed.  And, these must be shared and used to resolve the issues.
All of this requires contexts (situations) to promote inquiry - which is
the stated major goal for science education as indicated in the National
Science Education Standards.  Specifically the goal called for producing
students who "experience the richness and excitement of knowing about
and understanding the natural world".

            The NAB looks forward to reviewing nominations and working
with at least 15 teacher teams who are involved with real inquiry on the
part of students in their classrooms.  Nominations should be forwarded
to Robert E. Yager, Chair of NSTA's ESP efforts and editor of the ESP
Monograph Series (Science Education Center, Room 450 VAN, The University
of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, [log in to unmask], 319-335-1189).

 

 

"Work hard to find something that fascinates you. When you find it you
will know your lifework" -- Richard Feynman

Dennis Schatz

Vice President for Education

Pacific Science Center

200 Second Ave. No. 

Seattle, WA 98109

Phone - 206-443-2867

Fax - 206-443-3631

 

Pacific Science Center is an independent, not-for-profit educational
institution that inspires lifelong interest in science, math and
technology.

Special Exhibit Now Open: Colossal Fossils: Dinosaurs Around the World.

 


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