Pre-College Teacher Enhancement Program for Middle/Junior High School Life Science Teachers

这一教师培训项目包括三个完整的周期，从暑期讲习班开始，然后是学年。这一设计使参与者有机会互动和学习生物学概念、过程和教学方法，与杰出的生命科学教师分享和合作，并与德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的科学家和科学教育工作者建立和保持持续的合作伙伴关系。每个周期将从大学周围县的24名准备较少的初中/初中生命科学教师中挑选出来。参加者须参加暑期课程20次及秋季课程7次，共118小时，并可获得六个学期的学分。暑期课程将包括实验室和实地经验，科学家的内容陈述，以及备课的小组工作时间。在秋季期间，除了与科学家合作外，参与者还将准备教学单元和题为“初中生与科学家相遇”的特别课程，这些课程将在参与者的教室中举行。两名科学家将在每年的秋季和春季对参与者的教室进行一系列访问。参与的学区以及其他非NSF来源贡献了该项目30%以上的成本。

This teacher enhancement project consists of three-full year cycles, beginning with a summer workshop and followed by the school year. This design gives the participants an opportunity to interact and learn the biological concepts, processes and teaching methods, to share and work together with outstanding life science teachers and to establish and maintain a continuing collaborative partnership with scientists and science educators from University of Texas at Austin. Twenty-four of the less well-prepared middle/junior high school life science teachers from the counties around the University will be selected for each cycle. Twenty summer and seven fall sessions, a total of 118 contact hours, will be required of participants for which they will receive six semester hours of credit. The summer sessions will include laboratory and field experiences, content presentations by scientists, and small group work periods during which lessons will be prepared. During the fall, in addition to working with the scientists, the participants will prepare instructional units and special sessions entitled "Middle/Junior High School Kids Meet the Scientist" which will be held in the participants' classrooms. A series of visits by two scientists to participants' classrooms will be made during the fall and spring of each yearly cycle. The participating school districts as well as other non-NSF sources are contributing more than 30% of the cost of the project.