Science in the SEAMLESS Day: An Interdisciplinary, Urban, Multicultural Enhancement Program for Elementary School Teachers

亚瑟·卡明斯（Arthur Camins）是纽约市16区社区学校的科学协调员。卡明斯先生设计了一个与18社区学区和布鲁克林学院合作的小学教师提升项目。这些学区位于布鲁克林，包括贝德福德-史岱文森和其他少数族裔和低收入地区。该项目将对这些地区25所小学的1,000名教师中的一半以上进行跨学科科学教学的建构主义探究性方法培训。这一全面的全区努力的目的是创造一个“无缝”的一天，在这一天里，科学成为所有学科领域教学的一个组成部分。布鲁克林学院的教育和科学教师将作为该项目的资源，劳伦斯科学馆的教职员培训师和其他课程开发人员将以几次示范的方式指导教师培训师。教师、校长和学校管理人员将接受实际操作培训。此外，模范教师将接受额外的培训，使他们能够担任布鲁克林学院职前教师的导师。该项目还包括其他几个扩展项目，如暑期科学营、材料支持中心和监督培训。这种综合的科学教学方法可以对这些服务不足的学区的课堂产生重大而持久的影响。科学将成为教授阅读、语言艺术、音乐、社会研究和所有其他学科的工具。数学教学将使用学生在科学活动中收集的数据，从而加强学科领域之间的关系。这种学科领域的整合将通过布鲁克林学院培训教师的实习计划来模拟，使其成为布鲁克林科学教学的系统性和潜在的永久性变化。这个项目的费用分摊占国家科学基金会捐款的63%。

Arthur Camins is the Science Coordinator for New York City's Community School District 16. Mr. Camins has designed a collaborative elementary teacher enhancement project with Community School Districts 18 and Brooklyn College. These school districts are located in Brooklyn, and include Bedford-Stuyvesant and other high minority and low income areas. This project would train more than half of the 1,000 teachers in the 25 elementary schools in these districts in constructivist inquiry-based approaches to interdisciplinary science teaching. The intent of this comprehensive district-wide effort is to create a "seamless" day in which science forms an integral part of instruction in all subject areas. Education and science faculty from Brooklyn College would act as resources in the project, and staff trainers from Lawrence Hall of Science and other curriculum developers would instruct teacher trainers in several exemplary hands on curricula. Teachers, principals, and school administrators will receive hands on training. In addition, exemplary teachers will receive additional training that will prepare them to act as mentors for pre-service teachers from Brooklyn College. The project includes several other extensions, such as a summer science camp, a materials support center, and supervisory training. This comprehensive approach to science instruction can have significant and lasting impact in the classrooms of these underserved school districts. Science will become a vehicle for teaching reading, language arts, music, social studies, and all other subjects. Math instruction will use data gathered by the students during their science activities, thereby reinforcing the relationships among subject areas. This integration of subject areas will be modelled through an internship program for teachers in training at Brooklyn College, making this a systemic and potentially permanent change in science teaching in Brooklyn. Cost sharing on this project amounts to 63% of the NSF contribution.