From: Robert Zafran (marklin@redshift.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 15:51:08 PST
Message-Id: <200002242345.PAA07777@RedShift.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 15:51:08 -0800 Subject: FW: HP Session on Science Instruction From: "Robert Zafran" <marklin@redshift.com>
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>From: "Barbara Rodrigues" <brodrigues@iisme.ucsc.edu>
>To: "iisme-l mailing list" <iisme-l@em3.ucsc.edu>
>Subject: HP Session on Science Instruction
>Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2000, 9:54 AM
>
> HEWLETT PACKARD
>
> IS PLEASED TO
> SPONSOR AN INFORMATIVE SESSION
> ON
> STRATEGIES ON INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL SELECTIONS
>
> JAN TUOMI
> NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
> Washington, D.C.
>
>
> Two Session
>
> March 9, 2000
> Reception - 6:30-7:00 p.m.
> Presentation - 6:30-8:30 p.m.
>
>
>
> March 10, 2000
> 8:30 a.m. -4:00 p.m.
>
>
> Hewlett-Packard Auditorium
> Building 20
> 3000 Hanover St.
> Palo Alto
>
>
> RSVP to Joy Simoes by March 3 (650-857-4954 or email: joy_simoes@hp.com)
>
> Program Details:
>
>
> Jan Toumi
> Jan directs studies on science education policy and practice at the National
> Research Council in Washington, D.C. These include implementing
> standards---including the National Science Education Standards published by
> the NRC, reviewing instructional materials, and the role of classroom
> assessments in improving student learning. She also directed the RISE
> program, which studied how scientists and engineers could become most
> effectively engaged in improving K-12 science education. Her experience
> with examining instructional materials includes serving on the Expert Panel
> for Math and Science for the United States Department of Education which
> advises the Secretary of Education on effective instructional materials. A
> former teacher, she taught most recently in the San Francisco Unified School
> District, where she also directed a collaborative teacher education program
> at the University of California at San Francisco.
>
> Program Highlights:
> What does it take to ensure a successful science program? Having standards
> and accountability for achieving standards is not sufficient. The ability
> of teachers to deliver good instruction and a supply of effective tools and
> equipment are also necessary to meet those student learning goals. Science
> instructional materials provide teachers with guidance and tools for
> instruction, challenge students with engaging information and problems to
> solve, and provide parents with a tangible overview of the science
> curriculum. Your decision about which materials to supply is very important
> to the success of your science program.
>
> A new guide developed through the National Academy of Sciences offers a
> process and criteria for evaluating instructional materials that districts
> can use to make well-informed decisions. Importantly, the time and
> expertise needed to apply this process are within the reach of local groups.
> This professional development opportunity will provide an overview of the
> entire process and actual practice in applying the six review criteria to
> samples of science instructional materials.
>
> Bring local decision-makers to the Thursday evening reception and lecture to
> learn why and how the six criteria were chosen, and what information and
> documentation should be used to make a decision about materials adoption in
> your district. Then, we invite a (pair/team?) of science leaders from your
> district to return on Friday for a daylong professional development session
> to learn more the criteria and how to manage the process. Everyone who
> attends should develop a deeper understanding of what makes one set of
> materials better than another, and how to more effectively articulate those
> differences in community forums.
>
> Directions to Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto
>>From Interstate 280:
> Exit onto Page Mill Road heading East. Cross Junipero Serra Blvd./Foothill
> Expressway, Porter Drive and Peter Coutts Road (approximately 2 miles). Turn
> right onto Hanover Street (at the bottom of the slight hill). Turn right
> into the first driveway into the customer parking lot.
>
>>From Hwy 101:
> Exit onto Oregon Expressway. Head West on Oregon Expressway crossing El
> Camino Real (approximately 2 miles). After crossing El Camino Real, Oregon
> Expressway becomes Page Mill Road. Go three or four blocks and turn left
> onto Hanover Street. Turn right into the first driveway into the customer
> parking lot.
>
>
> Barbara Rodrigues
> Director of Education Programs
> IISME
> brodrigues@iisme.ucsc.edu
> http://iisme.ucsc.edu
> (408) 496-5342
> fax: (408) 496-5333
>
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