THE PROGRESSIVE SCIENCE INITIATIVE AND PROGRESSIVE MATHEMATICS INITIATIVE: Increase Math and Science Understanding While Reducing Stress

Timothy Panebianco NJ Center for Teaching and Learning

Empowering Teachers …Leading Change New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning

The Role of a Teacher  Drive student achievement  Design curriculum  Plan lessons  Motivate students  Classroom management  Work with others  Assessment & Grading

Challenges  Not all teachers are curriculum developers  Scaffolding content  Aligning to the standards  Making it engaging  Articulating a scope and sequence  Embedding formative assessment  Time to develop

Challenges  Lesson Plans  Not based on student performance  Compliance focus  Motivating Students & Classroom Management  Keeping students entertained, feeling successful, but adequately challenged  Keeping students engaged and on task  Students want to talk to each other

Challenges  Working with Others (Teachers, Administrators, & Parents)  Common Planning Time  Common curriculum, but different scope and sequence  Administrators get lesson plans, not lessons  Parents and students at home don’t have access to the lessons  Student collaboration

Challenges  Working with Others (Teachers, Administrators, & Parents)  Common Planning Time  Common curriculum, but different scope and sequence  Administrators get lesson plans, not lessons  Parents and students at home don’t have access to the lessons  Student collaboration

Challenges  Assessment & Grading  Difficult to get daily data on each student  Matching the rigor or EOC tests  School grading schemas don’t correlate to EOC performance  Who is doing the homework?

Progressive Science Initiative (PSI) & Progressive Mathematics Initiative (PMI)  PSI developed to teach HS science  PSI then used to create HS science teachers  PMI uses PSI Methods to teach K-12 math  PMI will be used to create K-12 math teachers

Progressive Science Initiative (PSI) & Progressive Mathematics Initiative (PMI) Developed in 1 NJ school: present Extended to 50+ NJ schools: 2007 – present Extended to Argentina: present Extending to RI and CO: 2011

Teacher Training: New Jersey In last two years, we created about 70 new physics teachers 25 new chemistry teachers And trained in PSI-PMI Methods about 200 currently certified math and science teachers

Teacher Training: New Jersey Those teachers taught, or are teaching 10,000 students Physics 500 students AP Physics B 2500 students Chemistry 150 students AP Chemistry 4000 students mathematics

Teacher Training: Other States Rhode Island Pilot started with summer 2011 training of 4 teachers Should start training new teachers, with local trainers, in July, 2012 Colorado Morgridge Family Foundation supporting implementations with training and technology

Argentina 2011 Results Spanish translations of physics and some math Created 10 trainers Created 25 new physics teachers Trained 75 currently certified chemistry and math teachers 2012 Plan Spanish translations of Chemistry, AP Physics B, and more mathematics Creating 20 new trainers and training 100 new teachers

Africa World Bank Mission to The Gambia in December Proposal to pilot a Train the Trainers model Scalable to all of The Gambia Then, the African Union (600,000 schools)

PSI-PMI Methods  Curriculum  Pedagogy  Formative Assessment  Summative Assessment and Grading  Technology  Face-to-Face and Virtual PLCs

AP Performance and International Competitiveness 1995 TIMSS Results - Physics

AP Exams as a Goal  Provides a standard metric  Recognized by K-12, colleges & universities, students and parents  Correlated to international competitiveness  Gives students access to top colleges & universities, plus scholarships

Curriculum PSI Course Sequence: Grades 9 – 12 Algebra II Pre Calc

Curriculum PSI Course Sequence: Minimal Version

Curriculum Traditional Course Sequence

AP Science Exams Taken (2010 – Bergen Tech vs. Normed State) *AP Physics B exams taken 18x the state average

AP Science Exams Passed (2010 – Bergen Tech vs. Normed State) *AP Physics B exams passed 14x the state average

Pedagogy Social Constructivism Plus Direct Instruction

Pedagogy Social Constructivism  Round Tables  Group Problem Solving  Heterogeneous setting

Pedagogy All slides printed and provided to students ahead of time

Pedagogy Direct Instruction  Interactive White Board (IWB) Notebook presentation  Student Response Formative Assessment  Teacher as part of social group

Formative Assessment Student Responders Anonymous student polling during class to guide instruction

Direct Instruction Example: Direct Instruction - Adding Decimals

Direct Instruction Example: Direct Instruction - Adding Decimals

Formative Assessment

Summative Assessment  Grades based only on what students know and can do – Tests, quizzes and labs  Retakes for all assessments  Grades are not subjective  Correlated to End of Course Tests (APs, EOC Algebra I, Common Core, etc.)

AP Physics B Participation Rates

Learning Forward – National Report

“The New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning (NJCTL) has been doing groundbreaking professional development work in math and science instruction as well…using the innovative curriculum of 2006 New Jersey Teacher of the Year Robert Goodman…to create the Progressive Science Initiative….”

The Progressive Science Initiative and the Progressive Mathematics Initiative: an effective new approach to student learning and teacher training – SMART Technologies and New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning 2011 IMS Learning Impact Award

2011 IMS Learning Impact Award

The Progressive Mathematics Initiative (PMI) PSI methods used to create PMI

Common Core Mathematics  Common Core adopted by 47 states  Current textbooks are not aligned to Common Core; they need to be replaced  But, textbooks themselves are becoming obsolete; districts don’t want to buy new ones  Free, highly effective, Common Core aligned course materials are critically important

PMI Mathematics Courses Free for non-commercial use  Kindergarten Grade 8  Grade 1Grade 8 / Algebra I  Grade 2Algebra I  Grade 3Geometry  Grade 4Algebra II / Trig  Grade 5Pre-Calculus  Grade 6AP Calculus A/B  Grade 7 College Algebra  Grade 7 - Accelerated

PSI Science Courses Free for non-commercial use  Algebra-Based Physics  AP Physics B (trigonometry based)  AP Physics C: Mechanics (calculus based)  AP Physics C: E&M (calculus based)  Chemistry  AP Chemistry  Biology  AP Biology (being revised for new AP exam)

Free Digital Course Content  25 Courses Posted  Most of K-12 Mathematics  College Algebra  Most of High School Science

Free Digital Course Content  Everyone can see all the content, but the assessments, at  Free registration for teachers to get access to all assessments

Free Digital Course Content  About 44,000 slides  50+ writers  At 30 second per slide, it would take 360 hours to see them all  Growing rapidly

PSI-PMI Paradigm Shift Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, describes PSI-PMI in these words: “There is a shift from teaching to learning, from working alone to collaboration, from passive to active learning, from analog to digital, from teaching a class to sharing authority for educating all the kids at a school, or beyond.”

PSI-PMI Paradigm Shift For what world are we preparing our students? Isolated work: factual recall; sitting quietly; transcribing; accepting

PSI-PMI Paradigm Shift For what world are we preparing our students? Collaborative work: critical thinking; problem solving; talking; debating questioning

PSI-PMI Paradigm Shift  Digital technology has enabled a new paradigm for teaching and learning  There’s no reason to build a new system with the old paradigm.  Build with the new paradigm

Reducing Stress & Improving Achievement  Curriculum Development  Framework is already designed  Aligned to standards  Designed and vetted by teachers  Content is scaffolded  Embeds pedagogy, including formative assessment

Reducing Stress & Improving Achievement  Lesson Planning  No more lesson plans; share the actual lessons and pacing guides with administrators  Formative assessment dictates pace If students understand- go faster, cover more If students didn’t understand – reteach, review, try another problem

Reducing Stress & Improving Achievement  Motivating Students & Classroom Management  Students feel successful by teaching small chunks  Mastery learning eliminates high stakes testing  Teaching is fast paced  Instruction mimics student life

Reducing Stress & Improving Achievement  Work with others (teachers, administrators, parents)  Teachers can share notebooks electronically  Curriculum articulates scope and sequence  Administrators get lessons not lesson plans  Parents and students at home have access to the lessons  Student collaboration enabled and encouraged

Reducing Stress & Improving Achievement  Assessment & Grading  Daily formative assessment  Matches the rigor or EOC tests  Grading practices correlate with EOC performance  No longer grading homework- students do homework to learn, not compliance

Empowering Teachers …Leading Change New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning