Practical applications
Effective science teachers work together and align their work with appropriate science standards (if they are available). In doing so, they use these approaches:
• Identify the core ideas of their science discipline across all grade levels.
• Decide which core scientific ideas will be taught in the early, middle, and upper grades.
• Outline how core scientific ideas that are introduced in the early grades will be developed further in the middle and upper grades.
• Select science curricula for the early, middle, and upper grades that focus on core scientific knowledge and include scientific inquiry as part of the core of scientific knowledge.
• Select science curricula for the early, middle, and upper grades that emphasize scientific inquiry as a method of teaching.
• Maintain a high level of consistency among the goals and objectives, instruction, and assessment of each lesson, unit of instruction, course, and programme.