Case Studies of Elementary Student Inquiry in Physical Science

9986846HAMMER该项目旨在解决基础教育专业发展的两个迫切需求。首先，教师需要更好的科学准备；其次，他们需要准备理解学生的科学思维。这两个都是为了达到目前国家和国家科学教育标准的目标，特别是那些促进学生探究的标准。建议开发大量书面和视频案例研究，作为材料，以促进教师对学生科学探究的实质性调查。这项工作将与一组24名小学教师合作进行，这些教师将直接从当地学校招聘。督导员将与这些教师在为期一个月的暑期学校工作三年，并在学年期间每两周举行一次两小时的会议。会议将把教师对物理的学习与对学生物理推理的研究结合起来。暑期研习班将包括对现有的力与运动、电学与磁学领域的入门课程进行改编。最后的项目将是从教师制作和组织的案例研究中挑选出来的案例研究集合，以说明学生探究的复杂程度的进展。预计这些材料将对职前教师和有经验的在职教师有用，包括那些正在开发NBPTS认证申请的教师。

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.