Project Search: Statewide Teacher Enhancement in Connecticut

9353526 Gruner该项目为康涅狄格州所有公立高中的两名教师提供了144小时的内容准备、培训和支持，以便在全州范围内将严格的环境实地研究新课程制度化。通过暑期师范学院、全年工作坊和与专业科学家的定期会议，272名教师将学习野外教学的新技术；增加他们对水生态、环境化学和科学报告的知识；学习使用新的计算机系统和环境监测设备；并帮助学生生成正式报告，供公共和私营部门机构编制康涅狄格州水质研究数据。该项目由一家地区科学博物馆的教师教育工作者和CT环境保护部共同管理，并利用公共和私营部门的专业知识来提高新的应用环境实地研究课程中的教师技能。项目搜索将教师与专业科学家联系起来；它对长期的课程改革和全州高中科学教育的系统改进具有重要意义。

9353526 Gruner This project provides two teachers in all 136 Connecticut public high schools with 144 hours of content preparation, training, and support for a statewide institutionalization of a rigorous new curriculum in environmental field research. Through summertime Teacher Institutes, year-round workshops, and regular meetings with professional scientists, 272 teachers will learn new instructional techniques for fieldwork pedagogy; increase their knowledge of aquatic ecology, environmental chemistry, and scientific reporting; learn to use new computer systems and environmental monitoring equipment; and help students produce formal reports that are used by public and private sector agencies to compile research data about water quality in Connecticut. The project is jointly managed by teacher educators at a regional science museum and the CT Department of Environmental Protection, and uses public and private sector expertise to enhance teacher skills in a new applied environmental field research curriculum. Project Search links teachers with professional scientists; it has important implications for long-term curricular change and the systemic improvement of statewide high school science education.