Issue-Oriented Elementary Science: Leadership Project/Implementation Project

9554163此外，拟议为期39个月的项目(从1996年4月1日开始)将在10个学区实施化学品、健康、环境和我(CHEM)项目。CHEM项目是劳伦斯科学馆公众理解科学教育计划(SEPUP)的一部分。拟议的项目将结合教师领导的夏季领导会议和其他教师的地区项目运营经验，将为来自10个学区的630名教师、10名学校管理人员和37,000名学生提供服务。该项目将为每个伙伴学区提供为期三年的以问题为导向的基础科学方面的持续支持和领导能力培训。在当地科学导师、训练有素的教师领导和项目工作人员的持续协助下，再加上地方行政部门的承诺，将建立改善每个伙伴学区科学教育所需的氛围和基础设施。这项工作能否取得长期成功的关键在于：(1)教师领袖通过他们的领导以及他们对供当地使用的教材的改编和设计，继续发展成为变革的推动者；(2)合作学区在很大程度上采纳或增加其对一般以材料为中心的科学和特别是以问题为导向的科学的承诺。

9554163 Thier The proposed 39-month project (starting on 1 April 1996) will implement the Chemicals, Health, Environment, and Me (CHEM) project in ten school districts. The CHEM project is part of the Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP) of the Lawrence Hall of Science. The proposed project will combine summer leadership conferences for teacher-leaders and in-district project-run experiences for other teachers that will serve 630 teachers and 10 school administrators and 37,000 students from ten school districts. The project will provide three years of ongoing support and leadership training in issue-oriented elementary science to each partner school district. The continuous in-district assistance by the local science mentors, the trained teacher-leaders, and the project staff, together with the commitment of the local administration, will establish the climate and infrastructure required to improve science education in each of the partner school districts. Critical to the long-term success of this effort are: (1) the continuing development of teacher-leaders as agents of change through their leadership and their adaptation and design of instructional materials for local use and (2) the higher degree to which partner districts adopt or increase their commitment to materials-centered science generally and issue-oriented science specifically.