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

这是一个为期40个月的教师领导能力提升项目，目标是来自印第安纳州韦恩堡附近农村公立和私立学校的教师。来自35所学校的两名教师（一名K-3，一名4-6）将接受为期三年的培训，内容和方法，以及领导和服务策略。他们各自的校长将参与规划科学服务，而PI将通过每年2次实地考察、800热线以及计划研讨会提供支持。在三个学年结束时，595名教师将在行政部门、校长和PI的支持下参与实质性的服务。来自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。这70名领导教师将参与一个为期三年的项目，包括夏季研讨会和每月一次的服务学年。来自韦恩堡学校的城市教师参与了调查将与本次项目的参与者分享他们的经验，在这些城市和农村学校教师之间建立伙伴关系。领导教师和他们的校长将为各自学校（595名教师）的教师制定在职计划，并将由PI和项目人员直接支持。项目设计计划让私家侦探和项目工作人员广泛直接参与，最大限度地发挥项目对目标学校科学教育产生重大积极影响的潜力。这个项目适合教师提升计划，因为它既包含了一个强有力的提升计划，也包含了一个精心策划、得到良好支持的领导力组成部分，旨在让所有领导教师所在学校的课堂教师都能参与其中。费用分摊约占国家科学基金会所要求金额的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.