Case Studies of Elementary Student Inquiry in Physical Science

9986846hammer本项目旨在解决基础科学教育专业发展的两个迫切需求。首先，教师在科学方面需要更好的准备；其次，他们需要在理解学生的科学思维方面做好准备。这两者对于满足最近州和国家科学教育标准的目标，特别是那些促进学生探究的目标是必不可少的。该建议是开发一卷书面和视频案例研究，作为材料，用于促进教师对学生科学探究的实质性调查。这一发展将与一个由24名小学教师组成的小组合作进行，这些小学教师将直接从当地学校招聘。pi将在为期一个月的暑期课程中与这些教师一起工作三年，并在学年期间进行两小时，每两周的会议。这些会议将把教师对物理的学习与学生对物理推理的学习结合起来。暑期学院将包括现有的力与运动、电与磁领域的入门课程的改编。最后的项目将是一个案例研究的集合，这些案例研究是从教师的作品中挑选出来的，并组织起来，以说明学生探究的复杂性的进展。期望这些材料将对职前教师和有经验的在职教师有用，包括那些开发NBPTS认证应用程序的教师。

9986846HAMMERThe project is designed to address two pressing needs of professional development in elementary science education. First teachers need better preparation in science; second they need preparation in understanding students' scientific thinking. Both are essential in meeting the objectives in recent state and national standards for science education, especially those of promoting student inquiry.The proposal is to develop a volume of written and video case studies as materials to be used to promote teachers' substantive investigation of student inquiry in science. This development will take place in collaboration with a group of 24 elementary school teachers whom the PIs will recruit directly from local schools. The PIs will work with these teachers over three years in month-long summer institutes and in two-hour, bi-weekly meetings during the school years. The meetings will integrate teacher study of physics with their study of students' reasoning in physics. The summer institutes will include adaptations of existing introductory courses in the areas of force and motion and electricity and magnetism.The final project will be a collection of case studies selected from what the teachers produce and organized to illustrate a progression of sophistication in student inquiry. The expectation is that the materials will be useful for preservice teachers as well as for experienced inservice teachers, including those developing applications for NBPTS certification.