State Workshops on Ethics in the Science Classroom, Summer 2000

这一试点项目将开发和实施一个讲习班模式，以便在全国范围内传播指导方针和教材，以便在中学科学课堂中纳入有关科学、伦理和价值观的主题。该项目将开发一个为期三天的教学讲习班，以帮助教师确定如何将伦理和价值观纳入高中科学课程，将于2000年夏天在佛罗里达和华盛顿举办两个试点讲习班，并根据观察和评估修改讲习班及其所依据的文本。调查人员将与参与者保持积极联系，以确定研讨会经验对他们的科学教学的影响，以及它们在多大程度上影响其他教师将伦理和价值观纳入他们的科学教学，并在其他州制定类似研讨会的计划。拟议的项目借鉴了之前两个由国家科学基金会资助的项目的成果。第一个项目是在长岛为科学教师举办暑期讲习班；第二个项目是编写一份文本，其中使用了夏季讲习班的一些材料。这篇课文包括关于伦理和价值观在实践和科学的社会应用中的重要作用的教育材料，六个说明性案例研究和23个示范课堂课程。这些材料将用于为期三天的试点讲习班。每个研讨会将有25人参加。这两个研讨会的计划和实施都是在这些州公立学校办公室的科学项目专家的合作下进行的。

This pilot project will develop and implement a workshop model for nationwide dissemination of guidelines and instructional materials for incorporating topics on science and ethics and values in secondary school science classrooms. The project will develop a three-day instructional workshop to help teachers determine ways to include ethics and values in high school science classes, conduct two pilot workshops, in Florida and Washington, in summer 2000, and revise the workshops and the text on which they are based in light of observations and evaluations. The investigators will maintain active contact with the participants to determine the impact the workshop experience has on their science teaching and the extent to which they influence other teachers to incorporate ethics and values in their science teaching, and develop plans for similar workshops in other states. The proposed project draws on results from two previous NSF-supported projects. The first involved summer workshops for science teachers in Long Island; the second involved the development of a text that used some of the materials from the summer workshops. This text includes educational materials on the important roles of ethics and values in the practice and the social use of science, six illustrative case studies and twenty-three model classroom lessons. These materials will be used in the pilot three-day workshops. Each workshop will have 25 participants. Planning for and execution of both workshops is being done with the collaboration of science program specialists in the offices of the public schools in those states.