STEM Teaching Tools: Resources for equitable science teaching and learning

Webinar:
STEM Teaching Tools: Professional
Learning Resources for Equitable
3D Instruction (NGSS)
Organizers:
Aida Awad, Broward College & NAGT Past President / Secretary/Treasurer
Ed Robeck, American Geosciences Institute
Carla McAuliffe, NESTA Executive Director
Susan Sullivan, CIRES, CU Boulder & NAGT Past President
John McDaris, SERC/NAGT
October 12, 2017
1:00 PM Pacific | 2:00 PM Mountain | 3:00 PM Central | 4:00 PM Eastern

Webinar overview:
➢Welcome and introductions
➢Presenter:
Deb Morrison,
Learning Sciences & Human Development, UW
➢ Discussion and Q&A
➢Future Events

Upcoming Events:
➢ Webinars: 2nd Thursdays, 1p PT/4p ET
➢ Next webinar: Thursday, November 9, 1p PT/4p ET
A Sampling of Federal Education Resources
Supporting Earth and Space Science Instruction
➢ GSA T114: Tuesday, 10/24, 1:30-5:30 p.m. (oral),
Wednesday, 10/25, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. (posters)
○ Getting it done: Experiences of Implementing the
Framework & NGSS in ESS
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http://nagt.org/nagt/profdev/workshops/ngss_summit/ind
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STEM Teaching Tools: Professional
Learning Resources for Equitable
3D Instruction (NGSS)
All young people should be able to decide their futures.
Deb Morrison
Learning Sciences & Human Development, UW

The Research + Practice
Collaboratory challenges traditional
forms of educational research to
build more equitable relationships
between research and practice.
NSF funded collaborative
project designed to bridge
the gap between educational
research and practice in
Science, Technology,
Engineering, and
Mathematics education
(STEM)
Collaboration of
practitioners, researchers,
formal and informal STEM
education partners:
• University of Washington: Seattle,
WA
• Exploratorium: San Francisco, CA;
• Education Development Center:
Waltham, MA
• University of Colorado: Boulder, CO
• Inverness Research: Inverness, CA
• SRI International: Menlo Park, CA
http://researchandpractice.org

Professional Learning Resources
to Support NGSS Implementation
• Co-designed by
educators &
researchers
• Tested & refined over
time
• Easily shareable—over
social media, email,
paper
STEMteachingtools.org (web)
@STEMteachtools (twitter)
pinterest.com/stemeducation (pinterest)

Anatomy of a STEM Teaching Tool

• Hundreds of thousands of uses of the tools overall
• Downloads tripled in past year, broad geographic use
• Social media generates ~20% of web traffic
• Significant traffic comes from Professional Associations
(e.g., NSTA, Achieve) & states
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Usage Stats

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80% of users are STEM Ed practitioners
From SRI Collaboratory Team

STEM Teaching Tools was
the third “top influencer”
on Twitter at NSTA
conference this year —after
NSTA & Lego Education.
From Marc Smith (@marc_smith on Twitter)—NSTA 2017 Twitter Social Network Analysis

PDF Collection of Tools
http://STEMteachingtools.org/link/PDFcollection

http://STEMteachingtools.org

http://STEMteachingtools.org/brief/12

http://stemteachingtools.org/sp/talk-flowchart

Try out Idea Coaching
1. Think for a minute.
2. Find a partner.
3. Person with the longest hair is the coach first.
The other person briefly shares their thinking.
4. Coach: use the coach moves below to have a
conversation.
5. Celebrate—and then switch roles. Celebrate
again!
Coach Moves:
“So you think that _______”
“I understand that ____, but what do you mean by ___?”
“How do you know that _____?”
“Can you say that again?”
Question: In your context, how do you plan to use
that STEM Teaching Tool to support implementation?

1. Go to http://STEMteachingtools.org/tools
2. Flip through the collection and find a few
tools you think may be of use to you.
3. In the chat window:
a. Put a link to the tools you found useful
b. Add a quick note about what interested
you in this material
c. Describe how you might use it.
Activity: Exploring a Tool You Want to
Learn More About

Theme: Formative Assessment
Resource Themes:
• Assessment
• Background
• Climate Science
• Engineering
• Equity
• Implementation
• Informal Ed
• Instruction
• Practices

Theme: PD Implementation Guidance

• By individual teachers refining their practice
• In PD events: Vision overviews, topic-focused
explorations, in direct support of project work
• To focus the work of PLCs, science departments, or
projects engaged in implementation
• With principals, state STEM groups, assessment
design teams, and informal science organizations
• In pre-service methods courses & graduate seminars
• To communicate with parents about science ed
• By organizations messaging about Framework / NGSS
through newsletters, sites, email…
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Uses for STEM Teaching Tools

• Open
Education
Resources
for PD
• STEM
Teaching
Tools PD
“Playlists”
• General PD
Resources
PD Modules

Advancing Coherent and Equitable
Systems of Science Education (ACESSE)

Formative Assessment as Leverage Point
for Promoting Coherence and Equity

Assessment of Student Thinking

stemteachingtools.org/pd/SessionA
(~4800 views in 8 months)
ACESSE Resource A
Overview: Participants develop
a basic understanding of how
formative assessment works
and different approaches that
have been used in science ed,
including 3D cognitive and
cultural approaches.

stemteachingtools.org/pd/SessionB
(~3200 views in 7 months)
ACESSE Resource B
Overview: Participants will
develop a shared, basic
understanding of equitable 3D
formative assessment and
explore tools for revising or
developing 3D assessment
tasks that are fair for ELL
students.

stemteachingtools.org/pd/SessionC
(1160 views in 2 months)
ACESSE Resource C
Overview: Participants learn
how to design formative
assessments that build on
learners’ interest and
experience, promoting equity
and social justice in the process.

stemteachingtools.org/pd/
(to be published soon)
ACESSE Resource D
Overview: Participants will
engage in crafting 3D learning
performances and develop
cognitive formative assessments
for them. In the process, they
learn deeply about three
dimensional learning.

ACESSE Resources
A. Intro to 3D Formative Assessment (published)
B. 3D Analysis of Assessment Tasks (published)
C.Intro to Cultural Formative Assessment
(published)
D.Crafting 3D Learning Performances & Formative
Assessments (close to publication)
E. Facet Analysis of Student Responses (piloted,
review stage)
F. Selecting Anchoring Phenomena for Equitable 3D
Teaching (piloted, will get your feedback
tomorrow)
G.Adapting Assessments to be 3D and Fair (piloted)
H.Observation Protocol for Equitable 3D Instruction
(ideation stage)

STEM Teaching Tools “Uses” (Playlists)

http://tinyurl.com/3Dassessmentdevelopment
Short Course:

We created a compendium of task formats for the science and
engineering practices that help with the design of assessment
components—can also guide instruction.
Assessment Task Formats for the Practices

Task Formats for Developing & Using Models

Prompts for Assessing
Cross-Cutting Concepts

Currently Translating Select Pieces…
NAP.edu

http://tinyurl.com/PracticeBrief

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(on the front page)
STEMteachingtools.org

STEM Teaching Tools:
http://STEMteachingtools.org (web)
@STEMTeachTools (Twitter)
http://STEMteachingtools.org/link/allSTT (All PDFs)
http://facebook.com/STEMTeachingTools (Facebook)
Project Links:
@ACESSEproject (ACESSE Project on Twitter)
http://researchandpractice.org/ (Collaboratory)
Other:
Follow Dr. Philip Bell at @PhilipLBell (twitter)
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Resources

Thank you for participating!
Contact information:
Aida Awad: aawad@tothecloudedu.com
Edward Robeck: ecrobeck@agiweb.org
Carla McAuliffe: carla_mcauliffe@terc.edu
Susan Sullivan: susan.sullivan@Colorado.edu

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