Workshop Program

Monday, July 13

A firm foundation:

8:30-8:45 - Welcome & introductions

8:45-9:30 - Icebreaker & networking

9:30-10:00 - Takeaways from the NAGT AGI NGSS Summit

10:00-11:30 - Hands-on exploring:

Sample assessment tasks
EQuIP rubric
Samples of student work

Tuesday, July 14

Building a vision for ESS NGSS & Hands-on NGSS experience:

8:30-9:00 - if only ... if I ... if we - framing ESS in NGSS

9:00-10:00 - Hands-on examining an existing activity with alignment cards

10:00-11:30 - Hands-on developing a storyline & bundling PEs

Wednesday, July 15

Sharing out & next steps:

8:30-10:00 - Sharing yesterday's work

10:00-11:00 - Opportunities & challenges: discussion

Working with pre-service teachers - What are their needs? What are the opportunities?
Working with in-service teachers - What are their challenges? What are the opportunities?
Implementation barriers & responses to them
Building a network
What will you do as a follow up to our time together?
How do you think the work around the implementation of NGSS is different from what was done for NSES?