Monday, July 18 – Friday, July 22
The Raritan Valley Community College Science Education Institute is offering its NGSS Summer Institute in-person starting Monday, July 18. The weeklong Summer Institute provides K-12 teachers and administrators with practical ideas and tools to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Every year, the organizers update the Summer Institute to incorporate what they are learning about classroom implementation through their work with thousands of teachers in New Jersey and across the nation.
During the Institute participants will learn how to:
- Identify, select, and fine-tune phenomena and connect them to NGSS core ideas.
- Turn NGSS practices into 3D performance tasks to guide student learning.
- Make NGSS crosscutting concepts explicit in questions and performance tasks.
- Use explanation and argument to assess student learning.
- Support students in defining engineering problems and designing solutions for them.
- Support students as they investigate physical, life and earth science phenomena.
- Plan their own NGSS-aligned investigations.
Access and use a database of over 600 NGSS-aligned investigations.
The Institute will be led by Dr. Wil van der Veen, author and a nationally recognized expert on the NGSS and science education. Participants will work in small groups that are facilitated by experienced classroom teachers from the NGSS Teacher Leader Program.
The weeklong Institute will be held July 18-22, 2022 at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, N.J. Each day begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m.
Light breakfast and lunch will be provided.
The fee is $350.
To register, go to tinyurl.com/RVCC-REGSI22. For more information contact Tina Gandarillas at tina.gandarillas@raritanval.edu or 908-526-1200, ext. 8942.
This Summer Institute is supported by a grant from the New Jersey Space Grant Consortium.