Central Pennsylvania Chemistry Teachers Science Education Improvement Project

Juniata学院提出了一项为期五年的计划，包括1)为120名在职教师提供6周+2周的暑期班，教授现代化学仪器的相关理论和使用，并有充足的实践经验；2)教师有机会在Juniata教员指导的研究小组中作为研究科学家工作；3)流动化学仪器实验室，由一名受过适当培训的、4)在整个目标地区发展训练有素的科学教师网络，以确保计划产生系统和持久的影响。该项目专门针对宾夕法尼亚州中部农村四县地区的科学教师，主要关注化学。该项目旨在帮助大学前科学教师将自己视为科学家和教师，为他们提供培训和支持，以提高他们作为科学家教育者的表现，并帮助他们培养出更好的理科学生，并提高学生对科学职业的兴趣。在很大程度上由于技术和仪器的革命，科学家的操作方式在最近几十年里发生了巨大的变化。不幸的是，大学前阶段的科学教学基本上没有变化--特别是在没有足够资源建设现代化、设备齐全的实验室的小型农村学区。然而，有适当的工具存在，教师可以接受培训，这样大学前的学生就可以体验到教育上健全的、动手的科学学习。朱尼亚塔的经验是，那些认为自己是科学家的人--尽管是选择教书的科学家--将科学的兴奋最令人信服地传达给学生。进一步，以现代实践型科学家的方式观察和思考。该项目建立在这些原则的基础上，以提高宾夕法尼亚州中部学校的科学教育质量。

Juniata College proposes a five-year program including 1) 6 weeks + 2 weeks summer institutes for a total of 120 in-service teachers on the pertinent theory and use of modern chemical instrumentation with ample opportunity for hands-on experience, 2) an opportunity for teachers to work as research scientists within a research group directed by a Juniata faculty member, 3) a mobile chemistry instrumentation laboratory staffed by a properly trained, certified science teacher who will work with participating teachers and deliver modern instrumentation for use in the schools, and 4) the development of a network of well trained science teachers throughout the target region to ensure systemic and lasting program impact. The project specifically targets science teachers in a four county region of rural, central Pennsylvania and focuses primarily on chemistry. This project is designed to help pre- college science teachers perceive themselves as scientists as well as teachers, to provide them with the training and support to improve their performance as scientist-educators, and to help them produce better science students and increased student interest in science careers. Due largely to the revolution in technology and instrumentation, the way scientists operate has changed drastically in recent decades. Unfortunately, the teaching of science at the pre-college level remains essentially unchanged -especially in small, rural school districts without sufficient resources for modern, fully equipped laboratories. However, appropriate instrumentation exists and teachers can be trained so that pre-college students experience educationally sound, hands-on science learning. Juniata's experience is that the excitement of science is most convincingly conveyed to students by those who perceive themselves to be scientists - albeit scientists who have chosen to teach. Further, the observe and think in the manner of modern practicing scientists. This project builds on those principles to improve the quality of science education in the schools of Central Pennsylvania.