Science/Math Instructional Improvement for American Reservation Indian Students

该项目的主要目标是向16个邦地区的70名小学和中学教师以及主要服务于美国印第安人学生的学校提供一项在职计划，该计划由印度事务局(BIA)出资进行了规模小得多的试点。它旨在为BIA在全国各地运营的小学和初中建立一支由70名数学和科学教师领导组成的干部队伍。这些领导人将发挥不同的作用，如提供示范课程、举办在职会议、协调课程开发以及与当地机构合作，在学校或区域一级规划改进。这些活动围绕过去三年试点研究中发展起来的讲习班及其延伸展开。最初的暑期讲习班为期八周，重点是以下活动：1)将由PI根据根据试点经验制定的方法教授数学课程；2)一名资深教员在试点工作人员和参与者的协助下，强调数学技能的诊断和补救方法；3)科学和数学教学的应用将由两名在这一领域有经验的工作人员为美国印第安人环境开发，并由一名来自保留地的教师协助，该教师在教学中应用了这些方法。如有需要，学员可获得研究生学分。将有广泛的科学和数学实验室，并在讲师的指导下进行实地考察。BIA计划为该项目做出重大贡献，并为项目计划和教师选拔提供投入。例如，BIA将资助在其中一所目标学校开发课程套，并将在先前工作的基础上，帮助在当地落实干部的贡献。

The main goals of the project are to offer to 70 elementary and middle school teachers over a sixteen state region and at schools that service primarily American Indian students an inservice program that has been piloted on a much smaller scale on funds contributed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). It is intended to build up a cadre of 70 mathematics and science teacher-leaders for the BIA operated elementary and junior high schools across the country. These leaders are to take on various roles, such as providing demonstration lessons, conducting inservice sessions, coordinating curriculum development and working with local agencies to plan improvements at the school or regional levels. The activities are centered around workshops and their extensions that were developed in the pilot studies over the past three years. The initial summer workshop covers a period of eight weeks and emphasizes these activities: 1) there are to be mathematics courses taught by the PI according to the methods developed from the pilot experience; 2) one of the senior faculty members, with assistance from the staff and participants of the pilot, emphasizes diagnostic and remediation methods for mathematics skills; and 3) applications of science and mathematics teaching are to be developed for the American Indian setting by two of the staff members who have experience in this area and are assisted by a teacher from a reservation who has applied these methods in her teaching. Graduate college credit is available to the participants upon request. There are to be extensive science and mathematics laboratories and field trips under the direction of the instructors. The BIA plans to contribute significantly to the project as well as to provide input to the project plan and selection of teachers. The BIA, for example, will fund the development of a curriculum kit at one of the target schools and will build on the previous work to help in the implementation of the cadres' contributions in the local regions.