Issue-Oriented Elementary Science: Leadership Project/Implementation Project

9554163他们拟议的为期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、卫生、环境和环境（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。该项目将结合夏季教师领导会议和为其他教师提供的地区内项目运营经验，将为来自10个学区的630名教师和10名学校管理人员以及3.7万名学生提供服务。该项目将在面向问题的基础科学方面为每个合作学区提供为期三年的持续支持和领导力培训。当地科学导师、训练有素的教师领导和项目工作人员在地区内的持续援助，加上当地行政部门的承诺，将在每个合作学区建立改善科学教育所需的环境和基础设施。这一努力取得长期成功的关键是：(1)教师领导通过他们的领导能力和他们对当地使用的教学材料的改编和设计，继续发展成为变革的推动者；(2)合作地区在更高程度上采用或增加他们对以材料为中心的科学的承诺，特别是以问题为导向的科学。

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.