Teacher Leader Institutes to Support the Dissemination of Activity-Based Physics Teaching Methods

9819626 law在这个为期四年的项目中，以活动为基础的物理（ABP）小组将通过以下方式帮助教师和学生学会从事真正的探究：1)在迪金森学院和俄勒冈大学建立一系列专业发展研究所，为120名中学物理教育工作者提供160小时的直接经验，使用计算机技术并将其与小组成员开发的以探究为基础的专业发展材料相结合。这些研究所将使教师能够改进和批判性地评估自己的教学实践，并成为其所在地区科学和数学教师的变革推动者。2)制作教师材料，包括教师资源指南和行动研究工具包，以支持教师在自己的课堂环境中成功适应和批判性评估计算机增强的、以活动为基础的课程的影响。3)评估专业发展学院、教师教材和教育材料的成功，以便专业发展材料和教师学院设计的基本原则可以被其他从事科学和数学教学标准改革的人所使用。研究所使用的材料和计算机工具的创建以物理教育研究成果为指导，包括科学思维实验室指南工具、实时物理实验室模块、车间物理、车间科学和互动讲座演示系列。配套资金占NSF奖金的19%。

9819626LAWSIn this four-year project the Activity-Based Physics (ABP) Group will help teachers and their students learn to engage in authentic inquiry by: 1) Developing a series of Professional Development Institutes at Dickinson College and the University of Oregon to give 120 secondary school educators in physics 160 hours of direct experience using and integrating computer technology with inquiry-based professional development materials developed by members of the Group. These Institutes will enable teachers to improve and critically evaluate their own teaching practices and serve as change agents for science and mathematics teachers in their regions.2) Creating teacher materials including a Teacher Resource Guide and an Action Research Kit to support teachers in the successful adaptation and critical evaluation of the impact of computer-enhanced, activity-based curricula in their own classroom settings. 3) Evaluating the success of the professional development institutes, teacher materials, and educational materials so the principles that underlie the design of professional development materials and teacher institutes can be used by others engaged in the standards-based reform of science and mathematics teaching.The creation of the materials and Computer Tools to be used in the Institutes has been guided by the outcomes of physics education research and include Tools for Scientific Thinking Laboratory Guides, RealTime Physics Laboratory Modules, Workshop Physics, Workshop Science, and an Interactive Lecture Demonstration Series.The matching funds amount to 19% of the NSF award.