An electronic newsletter for the science
education community
July
2004
Professional Development Helps Educators
Map Student Learning
To help K–12 educators make sense of the learning
goals for science, mathematics, and technology specified
in state and national standards documents, AAAS’s
Project 2061 offers a three-day workshop that introduces
participants to the theoretical and practical aspects
of standards-based education reform. Using Project
2061’s Atlas of Science
Literacy and other Project 2061 resources, participants
begin by looking at research into student learning,
particularly as it relates to specific topics or ideas. Next,
they work on developing their own learning goals
and then creating conceptual strand maps (similar to
those published in Atlas)
that display connections among goals within a K–12
sequence. In
other activities, participants review procedures for
analyzing assessment items for their alignment to learning
goals and for streamlining the curriculum so that students
have adequate time to learn the most important concepts
well.
The workshops attract science and mathematics teachers,
administrators, curriculum specialists, materials
and test developers, university faculty, researchers,
and others. The next workshop will be offered
in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 13–15. While
we encourage participation by teams of two or more,
individual participants are very welcome. For more
details, visit the Using
Atlas of Science Literacy workshop information
area of our Web site. Atlas
of Science Literacy is co-published with the National
Science Teachers Association.
For more information
about the workshops, please contact:
Senior Program
Associate: Ted
Willard, (202)
326-6778
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