Vermont Rivers Teacher Enhancement Project

9353347 Hessler该项目将为佛蒙特州中级和九年级和十年级的教师提供为期三周的密集在职住宿暑期学院。内容重点是以活动为基础的水生生态学，作为开发和教授教师和学生综合数学，科学和技术模型的工具。从1994年开始，每年夏天将有30位不同的老师来到圣迈克尔校区，为期三个夏天。90名教师中的每一位都将承诺调整其学校的课程，以便在暑期研修结束后至少三年内支持向学生讲授综合水生生态学内容，并在其学校内学习发展。学校将通过调制解调器和佛蒙特州Ed-Net远程通信相互连接，并与校园连接，以实现数据共享。重点将放在解释从每条河沿岸各点收集的数据和随后的分析。河流项目学校收集的数据将与地方、州和联邦机构共享。这个建议适合于教师的提升，因为它的目的是准备领导教师团队，他们将与同事合作，通过一个综合的当地河流科学项目，成为中学生的跨学科科学。它还将与美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的佛蒙特州全州系统倡议计划相吻合，该计划旨在教授综合科学、数学和技术。非国家科学基金分摊的费用约占国家科学基金要求的费用的22%。

9353347 Hessler This project will provide an intensive 3-week inservice, residential summer institute for Vermont middle level and ninth and tenth grade teachers. The content focus is on activity-based aquatic ecology as a vehicle for developing and teaching a model of integrative mathematics, science and technology to teachers and students. Thirty different teachers will come to the Saint Michael's campus each summer for three summers beginning in 1994. Each of the 90 teaches will commit to restructuring curricula in their schools to support their teaching of integrated aquatic ecology content to their students for at least three years following their Summer Institute and to learn development within their schools. Schools will be linked by modem and Vermont Ed-Net telecomputing to one another and to the campus, for data-sharing. Emphasis will be on the interpretation of data generated by collecting from points along each river and subsequent analyses. Data collected by Rivers Project schools will be shared with local, state and federal agencies. This proposal is appropriate for teacher enhancement because it is designed to prepare teams of Leader Teachers who will work with colleagues to being interdisciplinary science to middle school students through an integrative local rivers science project. It also meshes will with the initiatives of the Vermont Statewide Systemic Initiatives grant from NSF which is designed to teach integrative science, math, and technology. Non-NSF cost-sharing is approximately 22% of the amount requested from NSF.