Creating Communities of Inquiry: Academia-Industry-Museum- Schools (AIMS)

将为小学开发一个科学教育研究生课程。 来自波士顿、剑桥和福尔里弗的学校教师， 马萨诸塞州，少数民族入学率很高的学校系统。 大多数教师将是少数民族妇女。 它将包括三个 学校教授的课程，以及教师将在一个 在工业或波士顿科学博物馆的实地考察任务。 的 三门校内课程将包括一门特定的科学课程 学科和另外两个涵盖主题，如动手科学 学习，用技术教授科学，以问题为中心的科学， 应用数学和科学工具。外地任务将 包括在工业或博物馆的实际工作加上后续行动 讨论如何将这些经验转化为有用的 课堂活动。 教师将获得毕业证书 在莱斯利学院从事基础科学教育工作， 将学分转入科学教育硕士课程 如果他们在五年内被录取。 该计划将由 莱斯利学院的教职员工在一位顾问的帮助下， 委员会包括小学科学教师和工业和博物馆 科学家 由合作伙伴分担的费用将达到国家科学基金的100%。 基金会供资。

A graduate program in science education will be developed for elementary school teachers from schools in the Boston, Cambridge, and Fall River, Massachusetts, school systems which have high minority enrollments. Most of the teachers will be minority women. It will include three courses taught in the schools and one in which the teachers will be in a field assignment in industry or at the Boston Museum of Science. The three in-school courses will include one in a specific science discipline and two more covering topics such as Hands-on Science Learning, Teaching Science with Technology, Problem-centered Science, and Applied Mathematics and Science Tools. Field assignments will include actual work in industry or the museum coupled with follow-up sessions dealing with how to translate those experiences into useful classroom activities. Teachers will receive certificates of graduate work in elementary science education from Lesley College and can transfer the credits to a master's degree in science education program if they matriculate within five years. The program will be headed by Lesley College faculty members with the assistance of an advisory committee including elementary science teachers and industry and museum scientists. Cost sharing by the partners will total 100% of the National Science Foundation funding.