December 19, 2016
Over 300 educators attended a conference in NY which included live classroom demonstrations of lessons from the SSEC's new "Smithsonian Science in the Classroom" curriculum using a professional development technique called "lesson study," popular in Japan. The conference was organized by OCM BOCES, along with Syracuse University, two field partners collaborating with the Smithsonian Science Education Center on a $200,000 grant from 100kin10 to help school districts implement the new standards. Seventy teachers will participate in grant-supported work over two years. In the first year, they will teach lessons based on materials developed by the Smithsonian. In year two, teachers will receive two days of professional development related to lesson study and be asked to engage in one research cycle related to supporting early elementary students engaging in engineering practices.
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