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What Is Pearson Achievement Solutions Science?
Pearson Achievement Solutions Science is a collection of innovative professional development modules
for science teachers in grades 2-8. Currently under development in collaboration with
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), these modules will help teachers draw coherent connections between classroom content and
activities to larger conceptual ideas about science with their students.
The ultimate goal of science teaching is to help students understand how science explains the world around us
and how scientific explanations are developed. Upon taking Pearson Achievement Solutions Science modules,
science teachers will increase their science content knowledge on a conceptual level.
These modules teach participants to select and use activities and explanations carefully, in ways that
accurately represent scientific concepts and in ways that reveal, challenge, and shape students' personal ideas
about how the world works. Participants will become better at helping students develop more scientific,
evidence-based explanations and ways of knowing.
Pearson Achievement Solutions Science modules will help teachers develop a way of thinking about their teaching
that will enable them to make wise decisions about which activities to include in science lessons and how to
best connect those activities to the science content being taught. This way of thinking involves looking at
lessons and student work through two lenses:
a student thinking lens and a science content lens.
Each module will employ the Pearson Achievement Solutions
approach to professional learning and growth which comprises two primary phases: Content Exploration and
Lesson Analysis. In the Content Exploration phase, participants explore the scientific concepts, build their
content understanding, and study the teaching and learning issues related to each of these core concepts. In the
Lesson Analysis phase, participants learn how to think critically about instructional practice by studying a
lesson plan developed around the topic, watching that lesson plan executed in an actual classroom via video,
and collaborate with peers and an expert facilitator to analyze the lesson.
Request more information for your school today on
Pearson Achievement Solutions' Science professional development program.
Or call 800-348-4474 and select option 4.
English Language Learners
Mathematics
Reading & Literacy
Science
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