Planning Grant to Develop a Program to Improve the Teaching of Science at the Middle and Upper Elementary School Levels

规划赠款以制定一项改善小学初中和高中阶段科学教学的计划

• 批准号: 9255854
• 负责人: George Pallrand
• 金额: $ 4.95万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-12-15 至 1994-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9255854&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Develop; Program; Improve

This planning grant seeks to develop a program to improve the teaching of science at the middle and upper elementary school levels. The program will be directed at developing mechanisms for establishing ongoing relationships between faculty in a university research community and teachers in regional schools. During the twelve months planning period approximately 70 teachers from three school districts - Urban School District, Suburban School District, and Rural School District will work together to review and analyze a series of science teaching tapes. Upon completion of this task, the teachers from the various schools in the three school districts will present the tapes to science teachers in a workshop in their respective systems. The reactions and results from the workshops will be used in answering the following questions: What types of written materials for teachers should accompany such a tape? Would a kit with examples of the materials introduced in the unit also be helpful? What is the optimal length of time for such a tape? Upon completion of analysis of the tapes, the curricula of the participating schools will be analyzed. One of the goals of the program will be to establish some commonly agreed upon needs for middle and upper elementary school science programs. This aspect of the program is based on the assumption that every program in science education needs to be updated in response to advances in the fields of science as well as changing societal needs and needs of the various school districts. An outcome of the planning period is the design and development of new teaching units in science that are flexible in structure and format that can be introduced into existing programs without changing the entire science program or without committing the district to new series of books. Teachers can learn how to introduce new teaching material that is limited in scope. The new material and teaching strategies they learn with these units can also be extended to other areas of the curriculum.

这项计划赠款旨在制定一项计划，以改善 中小学科学教学 程度. 该方案将针对发展机制 建立教师之间的持续关系， 区域大学研究界和教师 学校 在12个月的规划期内， 来自三个学区的约70名教师-市区 学区、郊区学区和农村学校 区将共同努力，审查和分析一系列 科学教学磁带完成这项任务后， 来自三所学校各个学校的教师 地区将向科学教师展示磁带， 在各自的系统中工作。 的反应和 研讨会的结果将用于回答 以下问题：哪些类型的书面材料 老师应该配这样的磁带吗？ 如果一个工具箱 引入到该单元中的材料的例子也可以 有帮助吗？ 这样一盘磁带的最佳时间长度是多少？ 在完成对磁带的分析后， 参与的学校将被分析。 的目标之一 该计划将建立一些共同商定 初中和高中科学课程的需求。 该计划的这一方面是基于这样的假设， 科学教育的每一个项目都需要更新， 对科学领域进步的反应以及 不断变化的社会需求和各种学校的需求 区。 规划期的一个成果是设计 和发展新的科学教学单位， 灵活的结构和格式，可以引入 在不改变整个科学计划的情况下， 或者不向学区承诺新的系列书籍。 教师可以学习如何引入新的教学材料， 范围有限。 新教材与教学策略 他们在这些单元中学习，也可以扩展到其他单元， 课程的领域。