Teacher Networked Teams (TNT)

北亚利桑那大学已经与七所小学建立了联系，每所小学的学生人数都以少数族裔为主，这将通过发展和支持每所学校的教师团队、资源专家团队来实施良好的科学项目，来提高这些学校的科学教学质量。该方案是为资源专家团队提供以下培训机会的模式：(1)提高多元文化意识，使团队能够在其教学中将以文化为基础的科学纳入主要概念和主题；(2)丰富跨学科的内容，以便教师能够在教学中利用所有学科的主题发展科学的组织概念；(3)加强将教师的教学知识转化为建构主义学习观点的发展，以指导课程发展和教学策略。项目工作人员正在提供以下支持系统，以落实培训的目标和目的：(1)发展资源专家团队，作为利用少数民族学校作为改进科学教育的有效单位的典范；(2)协助资源专家小组实施课程、获取资源和信息；以及(3)在整个地区建立一个有效的教师联网小组的教学系统。

Northern Arizona University has formed an articulation with seven elementary schools, each with a predominantly minority student enrollment, that will improve the quality of science teaching in those schools by developing and supporting teams of teachers, Resource Specialist Teams, in each school to implement good science programs. The program is a model that is providing the following training opportunities for the Resource Specialist Teams: (1) enhancement of multicultural awareness so that teams can incorporate culture-based science into major concepts and themes in their teaching; (2) interdisciplinary content enrichment so that teachers can develop organizing concepts in science using topics from all disciplines in their teaching; (3) enhanced translation of teachers' content knowledge into the development of a constructivist perspective of learning that guides curriculum development and teaching strategies. The project staff are providing the following support systems to implement the goals and objectives of the training: (1) development of Resource Specialist Teams as a model for the utilization of the minority school as the effective unit for improvement of science education; (2) assistance for the Resource Specialists Teams with implementation of curriculum, access to resources and information; and (3) establishment of an effective delivery system of Teacher Networked Teams throughout the region.