Five-year Strategic Plan for National Science Teachers Association——Review on NSTA Strategic Goals 2015: Building A Better Future

NSTA released a five -year strategic plan——NSTA Strategic Goals 2015:Building A Better Future. The background of the plan is as follows. (1)Next Generation Science Standards has been released and put into practice. (2) Science Education in the United States has made great progress while it still has some problems. (3) NSTA has achieved good performance in recent years. NSTA Strategic Goals 2015 has 6 Strategic Goal:Advocacy; Professional Learning; Next Generation Science Standards and STEM; Elementary Education; Membership; Internal Organizational Goals. The main characteristics of NSTA Strategic Goals 2015 are as follows. (1) It emphasized the development of science education in elementary school. (2) It pay attention to collaborative development in regular school science education and informal science education. (3) It emphasized professional learning of science educators.