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Yes, I keep hearing and reading about the correlation of preschool years experiences with future success of students. Which makes me wonder what causes the correlation? I look forward to reading more about it in the coming years.
I also keep returning to an article that I read in Child Development way back in 2007. Lisa Blackwell was lead author and it was about an intervention with middle school students around teaching the students that "their brain is like a muscle". If they want to get better at math, practicing math will make their brain get better at math. The same way that giving your muscles a workout makes them stronger.
I know that the US culture often treats ability at math as an innate attribute, not one that can be improved with practice. I feel that informal educators can really make inroads into changing that, by getting the word out.
The article: http://www.stanforduniversity.info/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/system/files/Implicit%20Theories%20of%20Intelligence%20Predict%20Achievement%20Across%20an%20Adolescent%20Transition.pdf
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I think the most important part of the NGSS, and perhaps the more difficult to implement, is the frameworks, which focus on what students do in the classroom, rather than what the teacher says. That is a sea-change in how elementary classrooms are typically run, and will require an enormous investment in professional development as well as changes in how pre-service teacher education is done. Indeed it might require a generation or more. I am reminded of the comment by an historian of science that holders of old ideas do not change their minds, they die.
Project 2061, I believe has played a continuing role in the changes we see occurring in elementary classrooms, perhaps laying the foundation for NGSS.
This is not to say the culture and poverty do not play a role. Recent research results indicate that a child's proficiency in mathematics correlates with their number sense entering kindergarten. So the families of young children need to be reached before their children enter school. Is this something museums and science centers can address? How can the NGSS frameworks be used to enhance informal science learning of pre-school children?
joe
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On Dec 9, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Chuck Howarth wrote:
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> The problem is that we have been working on reforms in science education for decades now. As just one example, AAAS launched Project 2061 in 1985, so they've been at it almost 30 years with 50 to go. The question is whether projects like theirs and many others have made a difference, and if not, why not? Are we misdiagnosing the problem? Is NGSS the long-awaited answer?
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> On Dec 8, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Charles Carlson wrote:
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>> This is a national tragedy. http://nyti.ms/1jvN1zV
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>> It's time to overhaul the way math and science are taught.
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