Hands on Science Workshop in Physical Science for ElementaryTeachers

加州州立大学洛杉矶分校的这个项目旨在教育教师成为小学实践科学教学的领导者。这两个讲习班将培训总共50名教师，使他们成为科学导师和专家，使用实际操作的科学材料，了解适合小学的物理科学概念。讲习班将为指导教师提供每个实践单元的教案和组织良好的材料包，以及培训这些材料的使用和如何对教师进行教育。导师将把他们的学校课程和每个年级的在职教师的物理科学单元联系起来。每所学校将有两名教师代表，每名教师将为其学校一半的教师服务。因此，该项目将开发一个完整的学校物理科学实践项目。每所参与活动的学校将为教师提供津贴，为他们的同事提供服务，腾出时间进行此类活动，并分摊发放给每所学校的科学资料包的费用。项目评估、问题分享和长期计划将在本学年为所有指导教师安排的两次支持会议上完成。此外，个别学校的督学亦会在年内提供额外支援，以改善学校的科学教学。费用分摊将是NSF部分的38%。

This project from Cal State L.A. is designed to educate teachers to be leaders of hands-on science instruction in their elementary schools. The two workshops will train a total of fifty teachers to become science mentor specialists in using hands-on science materials and to understand the physical science concepts appropriate for elementary schools. The workshops will provide the mentor teachers with lesson plans and well-organized kits of materials for each hands-on unit, as well as raining in the use of these materials and how to educate teachers about them. The mentors will correlate the physical science units their school curriculum and inservice teaches at each grade level. There will be two teachers from each school represented so that each teacher will inservice half of the teachers at their school. Thus the program will develop a total school program of hands on physical science. Each participating school will provide a stipend to the teacher for conducting the inservice of their colleagues, release time for such activity, and cost share the science kits which will be given to each school. Project evaluation, problem sharing, and long range planning will be accomplished at two support sessions for all mentor teachers scheduled during the school year. Additional support will also be provided by the PIs at their individual schools during the year as they attempt to improve the teaching of science in their school. The cost sharing will be 38% of the NSF portion.