Leadership Program in Life, Earth and Space Sciences for K-6 Teachers and Principals

该项目旨在提高质量和数量， 在路易斯安那州Calcasieu教区的K-6教室里教授科学。 的 该项目的三个主要组成部分是（1）两个学期长 生命科学、地球和空间科学讲习班，（2） 为这些讲习班提供方法和动机 参与者与同行分享他们的专业知识，以及（3） 发展一种模式，使地方学校系统能够 他们的老师 适当挑选的教师和校长将 参与了这三年的努力。 教师团队和 校长教师队伍是从全港三十六所学校中选出， 教区。 每个研讨会都是经验丰富的，以调查为导向的， 为教师提供6小时的研究生学分。这些目标是 更新和扩大生命、地球和空间科学的知识， 32名K-6教师及其校长，并为教师提供 方法论和动机，以改善科学教学， 他们的教室。 这32名教师参与了一项 以前的项目中，他们的知识基础在物理科学， 物理和化学都得到了加强。 通过将这笔资金与 第一，这些小学教师应该充分 准备好有效地向学生教授所有的科学。 他们还将参与几年的时间， 应该给他们一个适当的背景，成为带头教师 在他们的学校。 通过将主体包含在 该项目以及领导组成部分，强大， 理解加强科学教学的行政支持 应该是即将到来的。 四个全天和五个半天的服务日是 在学年的日历中加入了这一点，以实现这一同侪增强。 专家教师和大学工作人员将参与 指示。 麦克尼斯州立大学和卡尔卡休 教区公立学校提供了相当于 NSF要求的50%。 这是一个强有力的承诺， 的学校和大学，并预示着继续 实施科学教育改善在 教室

This project is designed to improve the quality and the quantity of science taught in K-6 classrooms of Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana. The three major components of the project are (1) two semester long workshops in the life sciences, earth and space sciences, (2) the provision of the methodology and motivation for these workshop participants to share their expertise with their peers, and (3) the development of a model by which a local school system can inservice their teachers. Both appropriately selected teachers and their principals will be involved in this three-year long effort. Teacher teams and teacher-principal teams are chosen from among the 36 schools in the parish. Each workshop is heavily experiential, inquiry oriented and offers 6 hours of graduate credit for the teachers. The objectives are to update and broaden the knowledge of life, earth and space science for 32 K-6 teachers and their principals and to provide the teachers with the methodology and motivation to improve the science instruction in their classrooms. These same 32 teachers have been involved with a previous project in which their knowledge base in the physical sciences, physics and chemistry, has been enhanced. By sequencing this grant with the previous one, these elementary teachers should be adequately prepared to effectively teach all of the sciences to their students. They will also have been involved over a period of several years which should give them an appropriate background to become the lead teachers in their schools. By including the principals in the content portion of the project as well as the leadership component, strong and understanding administrative support for enhancing science instruction should be forthcoming. Four full and five half-day inservice days are built into the school year calendar to implement this peer enhancement. Expert teachers as well as university staff will be involved in the instruction. McNeese State University and the Calcasieu Parish Public Schools have contributed an amount equivalent to 50% of the NSF request. This is a strong commitment on the part of the schools and the university and bodes well for continued implementation of science education improvement in the classrooms.