Science Teaching Institute in the Rockies

该项目将设计，开发和评估一个创新的 暑期中学科学教师学院， 将区域资源整合到研究生水平的科学 模块。 这些模块将由涉及以下方面的小组开发： 大学科学家、在职教师和科学 教育工作者 这些模块将由科学家教授， 带上合适的科学系头衔教学 该学院将有150名中学教师参加， 蒙大拿州和落基山脉地区超过三年。 项目成果将包括生物学的16个模块， 化学、地球科学和物理学的发展和测试 由特别的合作开发团队和一个研究所 高校合作课程开发模式 科学系和教育学院。 的 落基山研究所的模式将传播到约 分布在不同地区的六所大学 在全国 相当于NSF奖金41.6%的金额正在被 作为费用分摊。

This project will design, develop, and evaluate an innovative summer institute for secondary science teachers that integrates regional resources into graduate-level science modules. The modules will be developed by teams involving university scientists, inservice teachers, and science educators. The modules will be taught by the scientists and carry the appropriate science-department rubric. The teaching institute will involve 150 secondary school teachers from Montana and the Rocky Mountain region over three years. Project outcomes will include sixteen modules in biology, chemistry, earth sciences, and physics developed and tested by special cooperative developmental teams, and an institute model for cooperative course development between university science departments and their college of education. The Rocky-Mountain Institute model will be disseminated to about a half-dozen other universities geographically distributed throughout the country. An amount equivalent to 41.6% of the NSF award is being contributed as cost-sharing.