Video Models for Teaching Physical Science

WGBH将与儿童博物馆合作，展示如何将视频技术用作教师科学培训的有效工具。儿童博物馆当前的NSF项目正在制定一套课程材料和教学策略，以提高中学科学教育的有效性，并鼓励少数民族和女性学生继续学习科学。它汇集了儿童博物馆的伯尼·祖布洛夫斯基，他成功地举办了25年的“亲身实践”科学教育课程，波士顿公立学校的教师，以及马萨诸塞州的工程预科项目，为课堂上的少数族裔科学家提供参与者和榜样。这种结合为记录和指导提供了一个不同寻常的良机。WGBH项目将制作三盘40分钟的教师培训录像带，旨在支持试图在中学课堂上实施这种新型教学的教师。培训录像带将通过辅助印刷材料得到补充--一份24页的教师观看录像带指南，以及一份为培训教师的大专院校教师编写的16页指南。还计划开展全面的宣传活动。该项目的成本分摊将是NSF部分的16%。

WGBH in collaboration with The Children's Museum will demonstrate how video technology can be used as an effective tool for teacher training in science. The children's Museum current NSF project is developing a set of curriculum materials and teaching strategies to increase the effectiveness of science education in the middle schools and to encourage minority and female students to continue in science. It brings together Bernie Zubrowski of The Children's Museum, who has run successful "hands-on" science education sessions for 25 years, teachers in Boston public schools, and the Massachusetts Pre-Engineering program, providing minority scientists in the classroom as participants and role models. This combination provides an unusually fertile opportunity for documentation and instruction. The WGBH project will produce three forty minute teacher training videotapes designed to support teachers who are attempting to implement this new type of instruction in their middle school classes. The training tapes will be augmented by supporting print material -- a 24 page guide for teachers viewing the tapes as well as a 16 page guide written for college and university instructors who train teachers. A full range of dissemination activities is also planned. The cost sharing for the project will be sixteen percent of the NSF portion.