Leadership Resource Teams to Implement Interdisciplinary Middle School Science

佐治亚大学将与当地的国家系统倡议项目合作，通过发展来自东南部9个学区的领导力资源团队(由4名硕士教师、他们的科学导师和2名大学科学家组成)来加强中学的跨学科科学。这些团队将参加三个暑期领导学院，这些学院旨在建立教师的科学知识库和教学，并将重点关注与教师当地社区相关的科学、技术和社会(STS)问题。这些团队还将开发教学模块，将对STS的关注与生物和物理世界的知识联系起来。这项建议适合于教师提升，因为它旨在培养领导教师团队，他们将与同事合作，将跨学科的科学带给他们学校的中学生。非NSF费用分摊约为NSF要求的金额的14.4%。

The University of Georgia will collaborate with the local State Systemic Initiative projects to enhance interdisciplinary science in the middle school by developing leadership resource teams (consisting of 4 master teachers, their science supervisor, and two college scientists) from nine school districts in the Southeast. These teams will participate in three summer leadership institutes which are designed to build teachers' science knowledge base and teaching, and which will focus on Science, Technology and Society (STS) issues that are relevant to the teachers' local communities. These teams will also develop instructional modules linking concerns for STS to knowledge of the biological and physical world. This proposal is appropriate for teacher enhancement because it is designed to prepare teams of Leader Teachers who will work with colleagues to bring interdisciplinary science to middle school students in their schools. Non-NSF cost-sharing is approximately 14.4% of the amount requested from NSF.