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Carnegie Science Fall 2015 11 The Next Generation Science Standards provide a great opportunity. They talk about emphasizing the practice of science enabling kids to actively learn science and become logical thinkers logical problem solvers people who understand scientific judgments and how science works through the K-12 experience. This will only happen if scientists help. It will not happen otherwise because most teachers have only experienced big lecture classes no active inquiry learning in science. They are not familiar with that kind of teaching. What is really needed is a partnership between scientists and teachers. Scientists have to be aware that teachers have this image of scientists being very smart and arrogant. We have to come in and interact with teachers in a true partnership and listen to them. If you listen to our good TipsSTEM Professionals and Outreach Leaders from What To Do What NOT To Do To try to teach them chemistry or biology is a big mistake. It is not for scientists to go into the classroom and start lecturing. That is the worst thing they can do. We want active learning. We dont want them to lecture the way they do in college. When you do that you overwhelm the teacher in the class with all these complicated things that neither the teacher nor students understand. You will leave the teacher with all the questions that the kids will ask and she or he cannot answer. Bruce Alberts Getem Talking teachers youll be very impressed with what they do every day. I could never do it Teach five classrooms with 40 kids each on several different subjects I mean its a killer. Teachers I know who are just wonderful are incredibly admirable people. Scientists learn a lot from teachers by listening to what they say about pedagogy. Because most of us do not know anything about how students learn. A very important preparation for going into the classroom is to read what experts say about how to do it. UC-San Francisco has had a science education partnership for 30 years. Go to their Web site and get information on active learning. Read about what works before going into a classroom. I think its great for scientists to talk about what they do in their life how they became a scientist. Dont just talk at kids but have them ask questions. Make sure that the kids talk. The teachers will help you with this. One of the real clever things I realized is the difference between a good classroom and a classroom that is all teacher directed. Observe a class and count how many times a student in the class says a second sentence. Saying one word or one sentence does not mean that there is active learning. Where students are thinking students will not just say a word or sentence but two sentences or sentences that apply to what other students have said. We need to make a science out of science education. FOR VIDEO GO TO www.carnegiescience.Edu