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Classroom standards: For the Astro-E2 competition, students should be encouraged to work with their peers and teachers in the process of research and scientific inquiry. Though the competition is team-oriented teachers should encourage students to perform scientific inquiry as individuals and should be treated as individuals. These activities will help meet the NSES recommendations for classrooms. LESS EMPHASIS ON MORE EMPHASIS ON Treating all students alike and responding to the group as a whole. Understanding and responding to individual students' interests, strengths, experience and needs. Rigidly following curriculum. Selecting and adapting curriculum. Focusing on student acquisition of information. Focusing on student understanding and use of scientific knowledge, ideas, and inquiry processes. Presenting scientific knowledge through lecture, text, and demonstration. Guiding students in active and extended scientific inquiry. Asking for recitation of acquired knowledge. Providing opportunities for scientific discussion and debate among students. Testing students for factual information at the end of the unit or chapter. Continuously assessing student understanding. Maintaining responsibility and authority. Sharing responsibility for learning with students. Supporting competition. Supporting a classroom community with cooperation, shared responsibility, and respect (except of course they're competing with other teams). Working alone. Working with other teachers to enhance the science program. Go on to Science content standards for students (Grades 9-12) Return to Teaching standards (Grades 9-12) Return to Teacher's Homepage

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