Case Studies of Elementary Student Inquiry in Physical Science

9986846 HAMMER该项目旨在解决小学科学教育专业发展的两个迫切需求。 首先，教师需要在科学方面做好准备;其次，他们需要在理解学生的科学思维方面做好准备。 这两个方面都是实现最近的国家和国家科学教育标准的目标，特别是促进学生探究的目标所必需的。建议是开发一套书面和视频案例研究，作为促进教师对学生科学探究进行实质性调查的材料。 这一发展将与一个由24名小学教师组成的小组合作进行，这些教师将直接从当地学校招聘。 PI将与这些教师一起工作三年，为期一个月的暑期研究所和两个小时，双周会议在学年期间。 会议将把教师对物理的研究与学生对物理推理的研究结合起来。 暑期课程将包括对力与运动、电与磁等领域现有入门课程的改编。最后的项目将是从教师制作和组织的案例中选出的案例研究集，以说明学生探究的复杂性。 期望的是，这些材料将是有用的在职教师以及经验丰富的在职教师，包括那些开发NBPTS认证的应用程序。

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.