Central Pennsylvania Chemistry Teachers Science Education Improvement Project

朱尼亚塔学院提出了一个为期五年的项目，包括：1)为120名在职教师提供为期6周+ 2周的暑期课程，学习相关理论和现代化学仪器的使用，并提供充足的实践经验机会；2)教师有机会在朱尼亚塔学院教师指导的研究小组中担任研究科学家。3)一个移动化学仪器实验室，配备经过适当培训的合格科学教师，他们将与参与的教师一起工作，并为学校提供现代仪器；4)在整个目标地区建立一个训练有素的科学教师网络，以确保系统和持久的项目影响。该项目专门针对宾夕法尼亚州中部农村地区的四个县的科学教师，主要关注化学。本项目旨在帮助大学预科科学教师认识自己既是科学家又是教师，为他们提供培训和支持，以提高他们作为科学教育者的表现，并帮助他们培养更好的科学学生，提高学生对科学事业的兴趣。近几十年来，由于技术和仪器的革命，科学家的工作方式发生了巨大的变化。不幸的是，大学预科阶段的科学教学基本上保持不变——特别是在没有足够资源提供现代化、设备齐全的实验室的小型农村学区。然而，适当的仪器存在，教师可以接受培训，使大学预科学生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——最能让学生信服地感受到科学的兴奋。此外，他们以现代实践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.