Science Laboratories for Prospective Elementary Teachers (K-8)

未来小学教师科学实验室（K-8）

• 批准号: 9851354
• 负责人: Larry Oppliger
• 金额: $ 6.78万
• 依托单位: Western Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-06-01 至 2000-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851354&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Laboratories; Prospective; Elementary; Teachers

This project will establish four laboratories for the elementary teacher preparation program at Western Michigan University. One laboratory will be used for the physical sciences, one for the earth sciences, and a third for the life sciences. The fourth laboratory will be used by students to work on lessons and projects outside of class time and will also be used as a commons room. Six science content courses, two in each of the three broad areas above, for prospective elementary teachers have been developed with borrowed equipment and with FIPSE support. These courses together with a "capstone" course currently being developed will be offered in the new laboratories. This laboratory and the courses it will support is an important component in the evolution of Western Michigan's elementary teacher preparation program. The program currently graduates over 250 elementary teachers each year and will prepare teachers who will be able to teach in line with both the content and pedagogical standards outlined in the Michigan Essential Goals and Objectives of Science Education (MEGOSE) and advocated by several recent national studies.

该项目将为西密歇根大学的小学教师准备计划建立四个实验室。 一个实验室将用于物理科学，一个用于地球科学，第三个用于生命科学。 第四个实验室将被学生用来在课堂时间之外进行课程和项目，也将被用作公共空间。 利用借来的设备并在国际小学教育方案基金会的支持下，为未来的小学教师开设了六门科学课程，上述三大领域各两门。 这些课程以及目前正在开发的“顶点”课程将在新的实验室提供。 这个实验室和它将支持的课程是西密歇根州的小学教师准备计划的演变的重要组成部分。 该计划目前每年毕业250多名小学教师，并将准备教师谁将能够按照密歇根州基本目标和科学教育目标（MEGOSE）中概述的内容和教学标准进行教学，并由最近的几项国家研究倡导。