Institute for Science and Technology

9454331拉什鹰-联合社区学校公司科学和技术学院这个48个月的项目为290名在职教师和40名K-12年级的职前教师提供为期五周的学院。该项目的目标是为改进科学教育提供教学和哲学基础，制定增加学生学习科学的战略，并开发一个显著改进的交付系统，以鼓励创造、解决问题、批判性思维和交流。该项目有四项活动。第一个是科学技术研究所。通过这些暑期学校，教师需要两年时间接受全面培训，并将技术融入课程。第二个是印第安纳波利斯动物园和礼来研究公司提供的实习和导师计划。第三个组成部分是每年被选中参与该项目的“常驻教师”。最后，与普渡大学有一个互补的服务组成部分，由当地资助。第一年从Project InSite中挑选了50名教师。他们在两个夏天接受5周的培训。这包括正式的科学培训、工作经验、研究经验、互联网和电信培训等。这些教师中的几名将被选为随后每组80名教师的培训员。参与者最初来自印第安纳州。费用分摊比例为30%。

9454331 Rush Eagle-Union Community School Corporation Institute for Science and Technology This 48 month project provides five-week institutes for 290 inservice and 40 preservice teachers of grades K-12. The goals of the project are to provide pedagogical and philosophical foundations for improving science education, develop strategies for increasing student learning of science, and develop a significantly improved delivery system to encourage creativity, problem solving, critical thinking, and communications. The project has four activities. The first is the Institute for Science and Technology. Through these summer institutes, teachers take two years to get fully trained and integrate technology into the curriculum. The second is the internships and mentorship program offered at places like the Indianapolis Zoo and Lilly Research. A third component is the "Teacher in Residence" who is selected each year to work with the project. Finally, there is a complementary preservice component with Purdue University that is funded locally. Fifty teachers are selected in the first year form Project INSITE. They receive 5 weeks of training over the two summers. This includes formal training in science, work experience, research experience, training on the Internet and telecommunications, etc. Several of these teachers will be selected to help as trainers for subsequent groups each of eighty teachers. Participants are initially from Indiana. Cost sharing is 30%.