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Join the NGSS summer institute for grades K-12

2 minutes

July 27-31

The Raritan Valley Community College Science Education Institute is offering its NGSS Summer Institute in person starting Monday, July 27. The weeklong Summer Institute provides K-12 teachers and administrators with practical ideas and tools to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Every year, the organizers update the Summer Institute to incorporate what they are learning about classroom implementation through their work with thousands of teachers in New Jersey and across the nation.

During the Institute participants will learn how to:

  • Select appropriate and relevant phenomena and connect them to NGSS Core Ideas.
  • Turn NGSS Practices and Crosscutting Concepts into 3D performance tasks that direct students as they engage in investigations of phenomena.
  • Support students in using Core Ideas during 3D investigations of phenomena.
  • Support students in defining engineering problems and designing solutions for them.
  • Engage students’ prior ideas throughout 3D investigations and build on them to further develop students’ conceptual understanding.
  • Make Crosscutting Concepts explicit in questions to support instruction and assessment.
  • Use explanation, argument and CER to assess student learning.
  • Plan their own 3D investigations that include formative and summative assessments.
  • Make more effective use of their instructional materials including OpenSciEd.
  • Use a unique Planning Guide to support effective science instruction and assessment and access a data base of over 800 3D investigations in science and engineering.

The Institute will be led by Dr. Wil van der Veen, author and a nationally recognized expert on the NGSS and science education. Participants will work in small groups that are facilitated by experienced classroom teachers from the NGSS Teacher Leader Program.

The weeklong Institute will be held July 27-31 at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, N.J. Each day begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m.

Light breakfast and lunch will be provided.
The fee is $400.

To register, go to tinyurl.com/RVCC-REGSUM26. For more information, contact Donna Frasca-Brady at donna.frasca-brady@raritanval.edu or 908-526-1200, ext. 8942.