The Complete Geography: A Model Curriculum for Pre-Service in Cultural, Physical, Techniques, and Regional Geography

1994年的《美国教育法》将地理列为高中毕业生必须具备能力的九个学科领域之一。新的能力要求要求对我国职前社会科教师进行更广泛、更全面的教育。到目前为止，几乎没有开发出全面的课程材料来促进职前地理学生的教学。这项提案要求国家科学基金会提供资金，用于编写一份四卷本的单元练习手册，涵盖地理教育的四个核心领域--文化、物理、地理技术和世界区域地理。该手册将由地理学家、教育教师、技术顾问和一个咨询委员会组成的团队编写，目标是在第一年出版《文化和物理》卷，在第二年出版《技术和世界地区卷》。该手册最终将由一个咨询委员会测试其与Geo-Teach的理念和目标的一致性，Geo-Teach是一个由Fipse资助的职前地理教育项目，目前正在曼卡托州立大学实施。Geo-Teach努力为学生示范跨学科教学的成功方法，以及将最新技术教学纳入课程的以内容和过程为基础的教学法；预计同样的原则将被纳入这本四卷本手册。两名外部评估员将在曼卡托州立大学外的大大小小的大学班级进行测试。预计定稿将于1998年春季分发给其他职前地理/社会研究方案。

The Educate America Act of 1994 names geography as one of nine subject areas in which high school graduates must achieve competency. The new competency requirements necessitate a broader, more complete education of our nation's pre-service social studies teachers. To date, very few comprehensive curriculum materials have been developed to facilitate teaching pre-service geography students. This proposal requests NSF funds for the development of a four-volume manual of module exercises covering each of the four core areas of geographic education-cultural, physical, geographic techniques, and world regional geography. The manual will be developed by teams of geographers, education faculty, technology consultants, and an advisory committee, with the goal of producing the Cultural and Physical volumes in year 1, and the Techniques and World Regional volumes in year 2. The manual will be ultimately tested by an advisory committee for its consistency with the philosophies and objectives of GEO-Teach, a pre-service geography education program funded by FIPSE and currently being implemented at Mankato State University. GEO-Teach strives to model for students successful approaches to interdisciplinary teaching and a content- and process-based pedagogy that integrates up-to-date technology instruction into the curriculum; it is expected that the same principles will be integrated into this four-volume manual. Two external evaluators will conduct testing in large and small university classes outside Mankato State University. It is anticipated that the final product will be available for distribution to other pre-service geography/social studies programs in the Spring of 1998.