Teacher Enhancement in Support of Higher Standards

9355659斯特拉森堡这个为期3年的国家项目将：对中学教师进行全国需求评估，以确定他们在符合新兴国家科学标准的主题上的在职需求；提供与这些主题一致的教师提升，并衡量该模式在产生当地地区支持和评估当地需求是否足够方面的有效性，以便可靠地填补名册，以维持当地参与，并控制成本。每年，三个地点的50名教师将参加一个为期四周的暑期研讨会，由一名总统奖中学教师、一名该学科或密切相关学科的研究生和一名该主题领域的大学科学家组成的指导小组领导。6-9年级的教师将参加工作坊，在工作坊中，模拟的教育法将反映研究表明有效的科学教学。内容和动手活动来自各种模范来源，这些来源是在国家科学基金会的支持下开发的。(大学物理专案，党卫军及三合会专案)。如果项目产生了预期的当地支持，如果当地需求足够大，当地填补名册的费用就包含了成本，那么预计该计划将成为NSTA活动的永久特征。

9355659 Strassenburg This national 3-year project will: conduct a national needs assessment of middle school teachers to determine their inservice needs on topics which comply with the emerging national science standards; provide teacher enhancement congruent with those topics and measure this model's effectiveness in generating local district support and assessing whether local demand is sufficient so rosters will fill reliably to maintain local participation which contains the costs. Each year fifty teachers at each of three sites will participate in a four-week summer workshop led by an instructional team of a Presidential Awardee middle school teacher, a graduate student in the discipline or a closely allied discipline and a university scientist in the topic area. The teachers from grades 6-9 will participate in workshop where the pedagogy modeled will reflect what research shows is effective science instruction. Content and hands-on activities are drawn from a variety of exemplary sources which were developed with NSF support. (The University Physics Project, SS&C and from the TRIAD Projects). If the project generates the local support anticipated and if local demand is sufficiently so local filling of the rosters contains the cost, then it's expected that this program will become a permanent feature of NSTA activities.