Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching Through Field Stations

野外站和海洋实验室 (FSML) 提供了一个绝佳的机会，以真正增强学生学习的方式教授生物学。 FSML 特别适合科学教育改革中所要求的探究式学习，因为它们独特的自然环境促进了学习社区和合作活动，而这在主校区并不总是显而易见。然而，大多数 FSML 的教师以及那些从大学和学院带学生到 FSML 的教师在通过探究教授科学的有效教学策略方面经验有限。通过实地站改革科学教学的学院机构（FIRST 项目）旨在让与美国各地实地站相关的教师群体做好准备，利用基于探究的主动学习方法来改革本科生生物学课程和课程。 在 FIRST 期间，位于实地站或海洋实验室或与实地站或海洋实验室相关的新教师、高级教师和博士后学生将组成一个实地站团队（FSML 团队），共同努力扩展他们在 FSML 中探究式学习的知识，这是理想的主动学习环境。六个 FSML 团队将从所在地区的大学、四年制大学和社区学院招募 180 名生物学教师，形成以现场站或海洋实验室为中心的区域网络。教师将来自这些机构的科学和教育部门。 FSML 团队将与地区教师合作，翻译并建立现场站设计的主动学习模型与适用于院系内课程和课程的类似创新教学方法或策略之间的联系，以增强学生的学习。这些技术也将为参加参与教师的科学和教育课程的未来 K-12 教师提供模型。 通过提供这些机会，所有学生都应该有机会通过直接体验科学探究的方法和过程来获得科学理解。

Field stations and marine laboratories (FSMLs) offer an exceptional opportunity to teach biology in ways that truly enhance student learning. FSMLs are particularly well suited to inquiry-based learning called for in science education reform as their unique natural settings foster learning communities and cooperative activities that are not always evident on main campus locations. However, the majority of faculty based at FSMLs, and those faculty that bring students to FSMLs from universities and colleges, have limited experience with effective instructional strategies to teach science through inquiry. Faculty Institutes For Reforming Science Teaching Through Field Stations (Project FIRST) is designed to prepare communities of faculty associated with field stations throughout the United States to utilize inquiry-based, active learning approaches for reforming undergraduate biology courses and curriculum. During FIRST, new faculty, senior faculty and post-doctoral students who are either based at, or associated with, a field station or marine laboratory will form a Field Station team (the FSML team) to work together to expand their knowledge of inquiry-based learning at FSMLs, ideal active learning settings. Six FSML teams will recruit one hundred eighty biology faculty from universities, and four-year and community colleges in their region to form a regional network centered at the field station or marine laboratory. The faculty will come from both science and education departments at these institutions. FSML teams will work with the regional faculty to translate and make connections between active learning models designed at field stations, and similar innovative teaching methods or strategies that would work for courses and curriculum within departments to enhance student learning. These techniques will also serve as models for the prospective K-12 teachers enrolled in the science and education courses of participating faculty. By providing these opportunities, all students should have opp ortunities to gain scientific understanding through direct experiences with methods and processes of scientific inquiry.