|
|
|
Schedule For
Thursday, 6 March 1997
4:30-6 p.m., STS Orientation Workshops
Due to the number of people new to NASTS and unfamiliar with the educational philosophy and curriculum format with which it is associated, members of the NASTS Board have agreed to offer a series of orientation workshops. The "orienters" each have experiences with their respective grade levels: elementary, middle, and secondary.
Elementary School: Janice Koch, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11550 VT-NH
Middle School: Irma Jarcho, John Roeder, Nancy Van Vranken, Teachers Clearinghouse for Science and Society Education, New York, NY 10024 RI-CT
High School: Tom Liao and Joe Piel, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794 MA-ME
6:15-7:15 p.m., Light supper for workshop participants SPRINGFIELD
PLENARY I
Thursday, 6 March 1997
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: BOSTON-CAMBRIDGE
Introduction: E. J. Piel, Chairman, Conference Planning Committee
Speaker: James Hamos, Director of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center Office of Science Education
Topic: "Science and Technology Standards: A View from the Field"
Dr. Hamos will greet incoming NASTS members and orient them to science education in local public schools. Hamos served on the committee that recently established State standards and guidelines based on the National Science Education Standards. He has also been involved in the efforts to develop a science curriculum for the Worcester Public School as a local resource person.
The State standards are a little less open to STS than the national Standards, and the local curriculum a little less so than the State standards. However, the inquiry-based theme of the standards, as they have appeared locally, is open to STS, even if it falls short of mandating social contexting as a primary teaching strategy. The language of technological literacy and citizenship training does appear in the State standards, though in Worcester that is not the emphasis until seventh grade.
9 p.m., Dessert Reception SPRINGFIELD