Leadership Institute for Teaching Elementary Science (LITES)

9353453鲍耶这个项目(基础科学教学领导学院或LITES)针对的是位于加利福尼亚州奥克兰地区60所学校的所有1,050名小学教师。一个由大学、工业和科学中心科学家以及大学、学校、社区和家庭教育工作者组成的广泛联盟将参与LITE的努力。领队教师(180人)将参加为期两年的基于研究的LITE课程，每年5周。他们将反过来培训一个由五名相同坟墓级别的同事组成的学校现场集群。LITES课程的主要特点是：(1)四个非正式科学中心的联系，教授为期4天的关于环境中的生态系统的专题科学课程，教师可以全年将其用作自己学习和课堂教学的活实验室；(2)在行业环境中教授技术课程，教师可以在这个经常被误解的学科中第一手学习复杂的概念；以及(3)教育学和科学学科课程与实际课堂经验相结合。领队教师将由一支由29名教师组成的小组协助完成他们的任务，他们将提供学校现场支持。参加LITES方案试点的72名教师将担任领导教师/同事教师小组的顾问。这项建议适合于教师培训，因为它是一个发展良好的系统工程，旨在提高科学知识和教学，并培养大批多族裔(主要是非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔)学生的小学主要教师的领导技能。非NSF费用分摊约为NSF要求的金额的70%。***

9353453 Bowyer This project (Leadership Institute for Teaching Elementary Science or LITES) targets all 1050 elementary teachers located in the 60 schools of the Oakland, California District. A broad-based coalition of college, industry, and science center scientists; and college, school, community, and family educators will be involved with the LITES effort. Leader Teachers (180) will participate in a research-based LITES curriculum for 5 weeks each year for two years. They will in turn train a school-site cluster of five same- grave-level colleague teachers. Key features of the LITES curriculum will be: (1) a linkage of four informal science centers to teach a 4-day thematic science course on ecosystems in environments that teachers can use year round as living laboratories for their own learning and classroom teaching; (2) a technology course taught in an industry setting where teachers can learn first-hand the complex concepts in this often misunderstood discipline, and (3) an integration of pedagogy and science subject matter courses combined with practical classroom experience. The Leader Teachers will be assisted in their task by a team of 29 LITES staff who will provide school-site support. Seventy-two teachers who have participated in a pilot of the LITES program will serve as consultants to the Leader Teacher/Colleague Teacher clusters. This proposal is appropriate for teacher enhancement because it is a well-developed systematic project designed to enhance the science knowledge and teaching, and develop leadership skills of lead elementary school teachers of a large, multiethnic (mostly African American and Hispanic) student population. Non-NSF cost-sharing is approximately 70% of the amount requested from NSF. ***