Resource Blog Post #1
Benchmarks for Science literacy
The following resource is from the Advancing Science,
Serving Society organization. This comes in the form of a book that is
available to everyone online. The main vision is to promote every student’s
understanding of ideas that central to scientific literacy, providing a
framework that details when a curriculum-based approach should be avoided. The
Benchmarks programs have many sites around the country with a few being located
here in Georgia. School teachers and administrators attend these workshops, allowing
them to have more of a say in the structure of their curriculum. Most
intriguing to me was the fact that lower-level grades will focus on key
understandings in science literature, avoiding lesson plans that test
memorization of vocabulary. Different goals are recommended for
grades 2, 5, 8, and 12 that leaves students with the proper progress to tackle
the key concepts within each area. Aside from Science, this resource helps strengthen literacy for math and technology where the same workshops are present. I enjoy the idea that the classroom setup isn’t set in stone where future benchmarks determine whether an educator wants to change any aspect of
the curriculum.
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