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Support Stations Can Foster Student Independence and Reduce Frustration! NGSS-style instruction can be full of challenges unique to this inquiry or discovery-oriented approach. One .

Teaching Strategies

Group Work Roles That Really Work

September 25, 2019

Using Group Work Roles To Actually Enhance Student Learning Group work is a HUGE part of NGSS classrooms. Collaboration should be occurring daily – from the puzzling it out to .

Teacher Organization, Teaching Strategies

A Lesson From Lyla: The Benefit Of the Doubt

September 18, 2019

How Giving The “Benefit Of The Doubt” Can Save Your Classroom Relationships When my daughter was just about two years old, we visited a local juice place for a .

Teaching Strategies

Mixed Feelings: Making Homework Matter

September 4, 2019

How can you make homework a valuable learning experience? I will admit, I have mixed feelings about homework. As a teacher, I understand it can be helpful to reinforce what’s learned .

NGSS, Teaching Strategies

Using Storylines to Structure NGSS Units

May 29, 2019

How are NGSS units different? An important difference you will see in truly aligned NGSS units is the use of storylines. NGSS units are built on storylines framed around phenomena. .

NGSS, Teaching Strategies

Teach The NGSS: Adopting NGSS Instructional Strategies

May 22, 2019

What is the biggest change you need to make to become an NGSS teacher? The biggest transformation you need to make when adopting the NGSS is NOT to your content. It’s to your .

Life Science, Teaching Strategies

Using Photosynthesis To Understand Systems: Exploring Processes, Inputs, and Outputs

May 1, 2019

One of the NGSS Crosscutting Concepts that has so many ties across the disciplines is the idea of Systems and System Models. At the middle and high school levels, one of our goals is .

Teaching Strategies

NGSS Support Stations: Better Than Sliced Bread

Group Work Roles That Really Work

A Lesson From Lyla: The Benefit Of the Doubt

Mixed Feelings: Making Homework Matter

Using Storylines to Structure NGSS Units

Teach The NGSS: Adopting NGSS Instructional Strategies

Using Photosynthesis To Understand Systems: Exploring Processes, Inputs, and Outputs