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| | Name: E-mail: newsletter@newslettercollector.com Member Status: | | December 5, 2016 | | | | Cyber Monday Savings Extended for NSTA Membership | | Now is the time to join NSTA! Use promo code CYBMON16 to unlock exclusive savings on NSTA membership. Continue to receive your journals, get 20% off books, be eligible for substantial savings on our conferences, and more! Join NSTA for one year for $64, a $15 savings off "Individual Member" rate. Offer good through December 9. | |
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| | International Tests Show U.S. Students Still Trail Behind Many Asian Peers in Science and Math Performance | | U.S. students still trail behind their peers in a number of Asian countries when it comes to math and science performance, according to results released last week from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Eighth-grade students in the United States showed some improvement in math and science over the past four years, but science scores for U.S. fourth graders were flat. NSTA Executive Director David Evans told The Washington Post that he is now hopeful that new science standards that have been adopted by a growing number of states -- and that push students to solve problems and learn about science by doing science -- will make a difference, prompting bigger gains in the coming years. Learn more about the TIMSS here, and read some of the news coverage here, here, and here. | |
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| | | | Help Us Name NSTA's New NGSS Newsletter | | NSTA is launching an e-newsletter focused on helping teachers get their arms around Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) implementation...but we need a name. Share your ideas for a name and you just might win an $80 NSTA gift card. Read more about the newsletter from its field editor, Kathy Renfrew, in the NGSS blog. | |
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| | | | Connected Science Learning—A Hub for STEM Learning | | Connected Science Learning's second issue focuses on professional development partnerships between in-school and out-of-school institutions that can help teachers in every setting prepare to engage learners. Read a sample article: "A Hub for STEM Learning" which shows how the Exploratorium Teacher Institute leverages a network of teachers, education researchers, practicing scientists, and informal education staff to address the professional learning needs of secondary science teachers. | |
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| | sponsored by | | Innovative Online Graduate Courses for Progressive Science Educators | | PHENOMENA, DISCLOSURE, SENSE-MAKING...learn how to apply these strategies to your teaching through the online offering MSSE 501 Teaching Inquiry Through Science and Engineering Practices. A newly offered online PSPP 591 Biomimicry course introduces the rapidly emerging discipline of biomimicry as a source of inspiration to create solutions to human problems by connecting Engineering with Biology. Check out these and other Spring 2017 online courses offered by the Master of Science in Science Education (MSSE) program at www.montana.edu/msse. | |
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