Leadership in Marine Science

9454413哈姆纳加州大学洛杉矶分校海洋科学中心和洛杉矶联合学区之间的合作旨在培养一支由160名教师(5-12年级)组成的骨干队伍，他们接受过利用海洋科学模式改变和加强整个系统的科学教学的培训。这一模型是在三年的时间里开发的，并得到了NSF的资助。这一模式(即，海洋科学教师教育计划：M-STEP)加强了教师在课堂和海洋b计划中的科学技能，该计划强调海洋专题综合科学方法来进行科学教育。海洋科学是跨学科的，因此它们作为一个综合的、解决问题的、使用海洋环境共同主题的动手课程来教授。海洋科学领导力项目(LIMS)的经验将培养教师与学生一起进行海洋科学课堂、实验室和实地研究所需的技能。他们也将成为同行培训中的有效领导者。由于洛杉矶联合学区新的学校集群组织，这些教师将影响由小学、初中和高中组成的四个学校集群，总共约有3.5万名学生。该计划旨在通过这种综合的和主题的方法来组织科学课程，以实现系统性的变化。它的目的不仅是改变在这些集群中提供科学的方式，而且还侧重于吸引年轻的少数民族学生进入大学和进入科学界。它通过提供新的科学内容、领导技能发展、合作伙伴教学培训以及改进LAU课堂教授的内容和方式，提供并提供了一种进一步使教师专业化的工具。LIMS教师将为洛杉矶联合大学提供首批基于集群的科学传播项目。

9454413 Hamner The collaboration between the UCLA Marine Science Center and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is designed to create a cadre of 160 teachers (grades 5-12) trained to change and strengthen science instruction throughout the system using a marine science model. This model has been developed over a period of three years and was funded by NSF. This model (i.e., Marine Science Teacher Education Program: M-STEP) enhances the science skills of teachers in a classroom and ocean-b program that emphasizes a marine thematic integrative science approach to Science education. The ocean sciences are interdisciplinary so that they taught as an integrated, problem solving, hands on curriculum using the common theme of the marine environment. Experiences in the Leadership In Marine Science Program (LIMS) will develop in teachers the skills necessary to conduct classroom, laboratory and field research in marine sciences with their students. They will also be effective leaders in peer training. Because of LAUSD's new cluster organization of schools, these teachers will impact four school clusters consisting of elementary, middle, and senior high schools with about a total of 35,000 students. The program is aimed at systemic change through this integrative and thematic approach to science curriculum organization. It is designed not only to change the way that science is delivered in these clusters, but it is also focused on attracting young minority students into universities and into the sciences. It provides and presents a vehicle for further professionalization of teachers by offering new science content, leadership skills development, collaborative peer teaching training, and the improvement of what is taught and how it is delivered in the classroom of the LAUSD. LIMS teachers will provide the first cluster-based science dissemination programs for LAUSD.