This resource has 7 correlations with the National Standards.  
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• Context of Professional Development
  • Learning Communities
    • Provide opportunities for teachers to learn and use various tools and techniques for self-reflection and collegial reflection, such as peer coaching, portfolios, and journals. (NSES)
  • Leadership
    • Support the sharing of teacher expertise by preparing and using mentors, teacher advisers, coaches, lead teachers, and resource teachers to provide professional development opportunities. (NSES)

• Process Standards for Professional Development
  • Data-Driven
    • Uses disaggregated student data to determine adult learning priorities, monitor progress, and help sustain continuous improvement. (NSDC)
  • Learning
    • Build on the teacher's current science understanding, ability, and attitudes. (NSES)
    • Applies knowledge about human learning and change. (NSDC)
    • Incorporate ongoing reflection on the process and outcomes of understanding science through inquiry. (NSES)

• Content Standards
  • Quality Teaching
    • Deepens educators’ content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (NSDC)