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

这是一个为期40个月的领导力教师增强项目 它的目标是农村公立和私立学校的教师 在印第安纳州的韦恩堡附近。 两名教师（一名K-3，一名4-6） 来自35所学校的每一所学校将接受三年的培训， 在内容和方法上，以及在领导战略上， 和服务。 他们各自的负责人将 参与规划科学服务，PI将 通过2次现场访问/教师/年和 800热线，以及通过方案讲习班。 在 三个学年结束时，将有595名教师 提供实质性服务， 行政和校长，以及PI。 城市 来自韦恩堡的教师们刚刚完成了一项类似的 项目，将作为农村教师的导师。 这70名领导教师将在三年内参与 计划，包括夏季讲习班，以及每月 学年服务。 来自韦恩堡的城市教师 参与PI的学校以前的赠款 项目，将与与会者分享他们的经验 建立合作伙伴关系 城乡教师之间的差异。 领导人 教师和他们的校长将计划在职课程 为各自学校的教师（595名教师）提供培训，以及 将由PI和项目工作人员直接支持。 的 项目设计计划，以便广泛直接参与 私家侦探的一部分和项目工作人员，最大限度地提高项目的 对科学产生重大积极影响的潜力 目标学校的教育。 该项目适合教师增强 程序，因为它包含了一个强大的增强 计划和精心策划和良好的支持， 领导力的组成部分，旨在达到所有的 班主任是学校的班主任。 费用分摊约为所需数额的66% 来自NSF

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.