This is a case study where certain researchers from United States enumerated the list of problems and solutions in Science Education and it is very important to us as an educator to be aware of the rising problems and concerns that may help us to attain an acceptable ways and possible solutions ahead and expect such situations in the classroom. Moreover, some of the things on the list are already identified and experienced even before and it’s very relieving to know that the solutions we took are just and reasonable.

The19 April 2013 issue of the journalSciencedevotes a considerable section to the state of science education both in the United States and the rest of the world. It starts with an introduction by Hines et al., “Plenty of Challenges for All“. The challenges are enumerated as follows:

 

1. Use technology to improve pedagogy, management, and accountability. 
2. Improve access to, and the quality of pre- and post primary education. 
3. Develop appropriate policies for regulating and supporting the private sector in education. 
4. Develop an understanding of how individual differences in brain development interact with formal education. 
5. Adapt learning pathways to individual needs. 
6. Create online environments that use stored data from individual students to guide them to virtual experiments that are appropriate for their stage of understanding. 
7. Determine the ideal balance between virtual and physical investigations for courses in different subject areas.
8. Identify the skills and strategies that teachers need to implement a science curriculum featuring virtual and physical laboratories.
9. Identify the underlying mechanisms that make some teacher professional development (PD) programs more effective than others. 
10. Identify the kind of PD that will best prepare teachers to meet the challenges of the Next Generation Science Standards. 
11. Harness new technologies and social media to make high-quality science PD available to all teachers. 
12. Help students explore the personal relevance of science and integrate scientific knowledge into complex practical solutions. 
13. Develop students’ understanding of the social and institutional basis of scientifi c credibility. 
14. Enable students to build on their own enduring, science-related interests. 
15. Shift incentives to encourage education research on the real problems of practice as they exist in school settings. 
16. Create a set of school districts where long-standing, multidisciplinary teams work together to identify effective improvements. 
17. Create a culture within school systems that allows for meaningful experimentation. 
18. Design valid and reliable assessments reflecting the integration of practices, cross-cutting concepts, and core ideas in science. 
19. Use assessment results to establish an empirical evidence base regarding progressions in science proficiency across K–12. 
20. Build and test tools and information systems that help teachers effectively use assessments to promote learning in the classroom

 

 

Reference: http://www.philippinesbasiceducation.us/2013/04/problems-and-solutions-in-science.html

By: Rachelle Ann A. Enriquez