Implementation Grant for the NIE MOST (Missouri Supporting Teachers) Electronic Support System to Promote Problem-BasedLearning Using a Computational Science Model

拉菲95-54313项目MOST(密苏里州支持教师)代表了一个财团，该财团接受了改善科学和数学教与学的愿景和工作计划。我们建议为从事基于项目的学习和计算科学的教师和学生建立、实施和维持一个基于互联网的支持系统。除了密苏里州已经在进行的改革努力外，该项目的下列目标最有利于在学校中采用新的工作和学习方式：(1)建立一个教育工作者社区并利用整个社区的知识和经验的网络基础设施；(2)一个以基于项目和计算科学的方法围绕教与学的实践和挑战而设计的电子教师支持系统；(3)一个具有凝聚力的变革推动者联盟，其具有凝聚力的愿景和一套支持教师专业化和学校重组的共同工具；以及(4)通过新的工具和方法来理解学习、教学和社区的性质的新知识，并改进工具和方法，并判断其价值。一个基于李氏峰会两位教师创新工作的支持系统，将帮助教师促进和监督学生项目，使用新的工具和方法，解决问题，评估学生结果，并实现专业发展。该支持系统将帮助学生开展有意义的项目：寻找资源和导师，与他人合作，使用新工具和方法，解决问题，以及建立和共享他们的项目组合。支持系统还促进了获得实地经验的职前教师、支持学生工作的校内外导师、评估学生过程和成绩的人以及研究人员的作用。随着时间的推移，支助系统将增加丰富的资源，并通过更好地设计程序和更紧密地整合和强大的技术来改善教学和学习的功能。在赠款的第二年，将有四所新学校加入MOST项目，并将实施和测试一个区域联合体模式。MOST项目和这项工作产生的研究有可能在教育改革、教师专业发展和学校变革领域取得根本性进展。随着项目的发展，将有助于理解如何利用现有技术打破教师和学校的隔离，并为课堂上的实践者提供即时持续的专业支持。这为将这一模式从中学一级侧重于计算科学和基于项目的学习发展到各级其他适当的教育改革方案奠定了基础。它有可能影响目前被孤立在教室里的学生和教师，并将他们转变为日益增长的智力社区的活跃成员。

Laffey 95-54313 Project MOST (Missouri Supporting Teachers) represents a consortium that has embraced a vision and plan of work to improve science and math teaching and learning. We propose to build, implement, and sustain an Internet-based support system for teachers and students as they undertake project-based learning and computational science. Along with reform efforts already underway in Missouri, the following objectives of Project MOST enable new ways of working and learning in schools: (1) a network infrastructure that creates a community of educators and leverages knowledge and experience across the community, (2) an electronic teacher support system designed around the practices and challenges of teaching and learning with project-based and computational science approaches, (3) a consortium of change agents with a cohesive vision and a common set of tools for supporting teacher professionalization and school restructuring, and (4) new knowledge both to understand the nature of the learning, teaching and community enabled by new tools and approaches, and to improve, as well as judge the worth, of the tools and approaches. A support system using available technologies and based on the innovative work of two teachers in Lee's Summit will assist teachers as they facilitate and monitor student projects, use new tools and methods, solve problems, assess student outcomes, and develop professionally. The support system will assist students as they undertake meaningful projects by helping: locate resources and mentors, collaborate with others, use new tools and methods, solve problems, and build and share a portfolio of their project. The support system also facilitates the roles of preservice teachers gaining field experience, mentors from in and out of school who support student work, those who assess student processes and achievements, and researchers. Over time the support system will grow in richness of resources and have improved functioning for teaching and learning throu gh better designed processes and more tightly integrated and powerful technologies. In the second year of the grant four new schools will join Project MOST and a model of regional consortia will be implemented and tested. Project MOST and the research that comes out of this undertaking has the potential to lead to fundamental advances in the area of educational reform, professional development of teachers, and school change. As the project develops, contributions will be made to understanding how to utilize existing technology to break down teacher and school isolation and provide immediate ongoing professional support for the practitioner in the classroom. This provides a foundation for growing this model from a focus on computational science and project-based learning at the secondary level to other appropriate educational reform programs at all levels. The potential is there to impact students and teachers who are currently isolated in classrooms, and transform them into active members of a growing intellectual community.