Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching Through Field Stations

野外站和海洋实验室（fsml）提供了一个特殊的机会，以真正提高学生学习的方式教授生物学。fsml特别适合科学教育改革所要求的基于探究的学习，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很明显。然而，fsml的大多数教师，以及那些从大学和学院带学生到fsml的教师，在通过探究来教授科学的有效教学策略方面经验有限。通过野外研究站改革科学教学的教师学院（FIRST项目）旨在使美国各地与野外研究站相关的教师社区能够利用基于探究的主动学习方法来改革本科生物学课程和课程。在FIRST期间，在野外研究站或海洋实验室工作或与之相关的新教师、资深教师和博士后学生将组成一个野外研究站团队（FSML团队），共同努力，扩大他们在FSML研究性学习方面的知识，这是理想的主动学习环境。六个FSML小组将从他们所在地区的大学、四年制大学和社区学院招募180名生物学教员，形成一个以野外站或海洋实验室为中心的区域网络。这些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，翻译和连接在实地站设计的主动学习模式，以及类似的创新教学方法或策略，这些方法或策略将适用于部门内的课程和课程，以提高学生的学习。这些技术也将作为未来的K-12教师在参与教师的科学和教育课程中注册的模型。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.