Leadership Institute for Teaching Elementary Science (LITES)

小行星9353453 这个项目（小学科学教学领导研究所或LITES）的目标是位于加州区奥克兰60所学校的所有1050名小学教师。 一个由大学、工业和科学中心科学家组成的基础广泛的联盟;以及大学、学校、社区和家庭教育工作者将参与LITES的工作。 领导教师（180）将参加为期两年的研究为基础的LITES课程，每年5周。 他们将反过来培训一个由五名同级别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，教授为期四天的环境中生态系统主题科学课程，教师可以全年将其作为自己学习和课堂教学的生活实验室;（2）在工业环境中教授的技术课程，教师可以直接了解这一经常被误解的学科中的复杂概念，（3）教学法与科学学科课程相结合，结合实际的课堂经验。 领导教师将由一个由29名LITES工作人员组成的团队协助他们完成任务，他们将提供学校现场支持。 72名参加了LITES项目试点的教师将担任领导教师/同事教师集群的顾问。 这项建议是适当的教师增强，因为它是一个完善的系统项目，旨在提高科学知识和教学，并发展领导小学教师的领导技能的大，多民族（主要是非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔）的学生人口。 非NSF的费用分摊约为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. ***