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

面向 K-6 教师和校长的生命、地球和空间科学领导力课程

• 批准号: 8850982
• 负责人: Stearns Rogers
• 金额: $ 7.63万
• 依托单位: McNeese State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-08-01 至 1993-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8850982&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Leadership; Program; Life; Earth; Space

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.

该项目旨在提高路易斯安那州Calcasieu教区K-6课堂科学教学的质量和数量。该项目的三个主要组成部分是(1)两个学期的生命科学、地球和空间科学讲习班；(2)为讲习班参与者提供方法和动机，使他们与同行分享他们的专业知识；(3)发展一种模式，使当地学校系统能够为教师服务。经过适当挑选的教师和校长都将参与这项为期三年的工作。教师队和校长队是从教区的36所学校中选出的。每个工作坊都是体验式的，以探究为导向，并为教师提供6小时的研究生学分。目的是更新和拓宽32名K-6教师及其校长的生命、地球和空间科学知识，并为教师提供改进课堂科学教学的方法和动力。这32名教师参与了以前的一个项目，在该项目中，他们在物理科学、物理和化学方面的知识基础得到了加强。通过将这项拨款与前一项拨款排序，这些小学教师应该做好充分的准备，有效地向学生教授所有的科学知识。他们还将参与几年的时间，这应该给他们一个适当的背景，成为他们学校的主要教师。通过将校长包括在项目的内容部分以及领导部分，应该为加强科学教学提供强有力和理解的行政支持。在学年日历中设置了四个全日和五个半天的服务日，以实施这种同伴促进。专家教师和大学工作人员将参与指导。McNeese州立大学和Calcasieu教区公立学校的捐款相当于NSF要求的50%。这是学校和大学的一个强有力的承诺，预示着在课堂上继续实施科学教育的改善。