National Standards

Teaching Standards

• The planning of inquiry-based programs.

• The actions take to guide and facilitate learning.

• The assessments made of teaching and the student learning.

• The developments of environments that enable students to learn science. 

• The creation of communities of science learners.

• The planning and development of environments that enable students to learn science standards.

Professional Development Standards

• The learning of science content through inquiry.

• The integration of knowledge about learning pedagogy, and students.

• The development of the understanding and ability for lifelong learning.

• The coherence and integration of professional development programs.

Assessment Standards 

•     The consistency of assessments with the decisions they are designed to inform.

•     The assessment of both achievement and opportunity to learn science.

•     The match between the technical quality of the data collected and the consequences of      the action taken on the basis of those data.

•     The fairness of assessment practices.

•        The soundness of inferences made from assessments about student achievement and          opportunity to learn.

Science for 9-12

• Science as Inquiry

• Physical Science

• Life Science

• Earth and Space Science

• Science and Technology

• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives

• History and Nature of Science