Science Co-operatives

科学合作社

• 批准号: 9911857
• 负责人: James Shymansky
• 金额: $ 593.65万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Saint Louis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-03-01 至 2006-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9911857&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Co; operatives

9911857SHYMANSKY"Science Co-operatives" is a five year Local Systemic Change project designed to transform the elementary science program of 35 rural school districts in Missouri and Iowa. The project will work directly with 75 schools, enhance the content and pedagogical knowledge of 1,405 teachers, and impact over 19,000 students. Three university-based project teams (University of Missouri-St. Louis, the University of Iowa, and Iowa State University), assisted by expert consultants and facilitated by 9 local Co-op field coordinators will deliver summer and school-year teacher enhancement activities. Telecommunications will allow experts to deliver inservice instruction to teachers within and across cooperatives on a variety of science, pedagogical, and special topics. The fiber optic systems involved include the Iowa Communication Network (ICN) and the Missouri Research and Educational Network (MOREnet), both fully interactive educational video networks that link universities, community colleges, school districts, and other sites. Professional development will have, at its core, the implementation of units from three NSF-sponsored elementary science curriculum development projects: FOSS, STC, and Insights. Additional teacher inservice activities will be patterned after the highly successful "Science Parents, Activities, and Literature" that helped teachers integrate their science teaching with other disciplines. An independent evaluation will use both qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the impact of the project on students' opportunities to learn science, attitudes towards science and achievement, and teachers' knowledge of science and improved classroom practice.

9911857 SHYMANSKY“科学合作社”是一个为期五年的地方系统性变革项目，旨在改变密苏里州和爱荷华州35个农村学区的小学科学计划。 该项目将直接与75所学校合作，提高1 405名教师的教学内容和教学知识，影响19 000多名学生。 三个以大学为基础的项目团队（密苏里大学-圣路易斯分校、爱荷华州大学和爱荷华州州立大学）将在专家顾问的协助下，在9名当地合作社实地协调员的协助下，开展夏季和学年教师增强活动。 电信将使专家能够在合作社内部和合作社之间就各种科学、教学和专题向教师提供在职指导。 涉及的光纤系统包括爱荷华州通信网络（ICN）和密苏里州研究和教育网络（MOREnet），这两个完全交互式的教育视频网络连接大学，社区学院，学区和其他网站。 专业发展的核心是实施三个NSF赞助的小学科学课程开发项目的单元：FOSS，STC和Insights。 在非常成功的“科学家长、活动和文学”帮助教师将他们的科学教学与其他学科相结合之后，将有更多的教师在职活动。 一项独立的评估将使用定性和定量方法来衡量该项目对学生学习科学的机会、对科学和成绩的态度以及教师的科学知识和改进的课堂实践的影响。