Project Leadership in High School Science and Mathematics

这一领导力活动项目在未来三年向纽约市皇后县22所高中的200名科学和数学教师提供了最新和相关的内容和方法。直接参与的200名教师将反过来发挥带头作用，加强他们的同事在科目和课堂教学策略和方法方面的能力。60名数学、60名生物、40名化学、20名物理和20名地球科学教师将在项目期间直接受益。然后，这些教师将与皇后县高中剩下的550名科学和数学教师一起工作。项目活动包括每年夏天在3个学科领域举办为期4周的暑期研习班，学年期间举办6个后续讲习班，参与教师在高中开展的在职活动，以及项目教师、参与教师及其同龄人之间的定期访问、合作和协商。在项目期间，将在约克学院建立一个科学资源中心，作为国家科学基金会停止资助后继续开展项目活动的一种手段。在提交提案之前完成了彻底的需求评估。所涉及的人员包括具有代表性的客户抽样，他们表示，由于即将实施的新的董事、科学和数学课程，他们感到有必要更新内容和方法。此外，有几名教师已有几年没有参加这种更新活动了。

This Leadership Activities project provides current and relevant content and methodology to 200 science and mathematics teachers in the 22 high schools of Queens County, New York City over the next three years. The 200 teachers involved directly will, in turn, serve as leaders in the enhancement of their colleagues in subject matter and classroom instructional strategies and methods. 60 mathematics, 60 biology, 40 chemistry, 20 physics and 20 earth science teachers will be the direct beneficiaries of the program during the time of the project. These teachers will then work with the 550 remaining science and mathematics teachers in the Queens County high schools. The project activities include 4-week summer institutes in 3 of the subject areas each summer, 6 follow-up workshops during the academic year, inservice activities at the high schools by the participating teachers, and periodic visits, collaboration and consultations among the project faculty, participating teachers, and their peers. A Science Resource Center will be developed at York College during the term of the project and serve as a means of continuing the project activities once NSF funding ceases. A thorough needs assessment was completed prior to the submission of the proposal. The personnel involved included a representative sampling of the client population who expressed a felt need for the content and methodology update because of the new Regents science and mathematics curricula which are to be implemented in the immmediate future. Further several teachers had not participated in such renewal activities for several years.