Building Bridges to the Future: The Northeastern Indiana - Ball State University Elementary School Science Plan

这是一个为期40个月的领导力教师提升项目，目标是印第安纳州韦恩堡附近乡村公立和私立学校的教师。35所学校中每所学校的两名教师(一名K-3，一名4-6)将接受为期三年的内容和方法以及领导和服务战略方面的培训。他们各自的校长将参与规划科学服务，国际和平协会将通过2次实地访问/教师/年和800热线以及通过方案讲习班提供支持。在三个学年结束时，将有595名教师在行政部门和校长以及PI的支助下从事实质性的服务工作。韦恩堡的城市教师刚刚完成了一个类似的项目，他们将担任农村教师的导师。70名带队教师将参加一个为期三年的项目，其中包括暑期工作坊以及每月一次的学年服务。参加过P.I.S助学金项目的韦恩堡学校的城市教师将与该项目的参与者分享他们的经验，建立这些城乡学校教师之间的伙伴关系。领导教师和他们的校长将为各自学校的教师(595名教师)规划在职方案，并将得到PI和项目工作人员的直接支持。该项目的设计计划让私人投资者和项目工作人员广泛直接参与，最大限度地发挥该项目对目标学校的科学教育产生重大积极影响的潜力。该项目适合于教师提升计划，因为它既包含一个强大的增强计划，也包含一个精心规划和得到良好支持的领导力组成部分，旨在接触到领导教师所在学校的所有课堂教师。费用分摊大约是NSF要求的金额的66%。

This is a 40-month leadership teacher enhancement project which targets teachers from rural public and private schools near Fort Wayne, Indiana. Two teachers (one K-3, one 4-6) from each of 35 schools will receive three years of training in content and methodology, and in strategies for leadership and inservicing. Their respective principals will participate in planning science inservices, and the PI will provide support through 2 site visits/teacher/year and an 800 hotline, as well as through program workshops. At the end of three academic years, 595 teachers will have been involved in substantive inservicing supported by administration and principals, and by the PI. Urban teachers from Fort Wayne, who have just completed a similar project, will serve as mentors to the rural teachers. The 70 leader teachers will be involved in a three year program that includes summer workshops as well as monthly academic year inservices. Urban teachers from Fort Wayne schools who participated in the P.I.'s previous grant project, will share their experiences with the participants of this project, establising partnership relationships between these urban and rural school teachers. The leader teachers and their principals will plan inservice programs for teachers in their respective schools (595 teachers), and will be supported directly by the PI and project staff. The project design plans for extensive direct involvement on the part of the P.I. and project staff, maximizing the project's potential for significant positive impact on science education in the targeted schools. This project is appropriate for the Teacher Enhancement Program because it contains both a strong enhancement program and a carefully planned and well-supported leadership component that is designed to reach all of the classroom teachers in the schools of the leader teachers. Cost sharing is approximately 66% of the amount requested from NSF.