Integrating Exemplary Physical Science Teacher Enhancement Materials with Mathematics for Preservice Middle School Teachers

跨学科(99)这个项目正在开发一个综合物理科学和数学的两门课程序列，为职前中小学教师在中学教学做准备。在中学阶段，学生往往会对数学和科学失去兴趣，这种损失通常被归因于教师准备不足。缺乏准备是双重的：在中学任教的小学教师缺乏物理内容，而中学教师缺乏适当的中学教学模式。意识到教师教的就是教的，这个两门课程的序列旨在开发嵌入到职前教师的教学知识发展中的教学模式。该项目的目标是：1)在中学教师的科学研究中发展物理科学的综合知识和数学的应用；2)培养一支核心的大学教师队伍，他们具有适合中学教师的教学风格的建模能力；3)开发一个可以被其他大学改编的课程包，用于中学教师的教学。通过让一个由四名科学教师和一名教育教师组成的团队将物理科学和中学课程中经过验证的教师强化材料改编成两门课程的序列，这些目标正在实现。这种适应的关键要素是数学的整合，以及贯穿整个课程的研究性调查，以便学生发展一种做“真正的科学”的感觉。该项目正在改编来自操作物理、操作化学、天文计划、地球科学计划、物理科学中的强大思想以及任务数学：连接航空航天和NCTM标准的材料。正在修改这些材料，在科学材料中加入明确的数学应用，就像在数学任务中所做的那样。教职员工正在接受学习周期教学、合作学习和社区建设方面的培训。参与这两门课程的课程序列为未来的教师提供了一个适应他们的课堂的模式。参加这些课程的学生都是初级阶段的学生，并且已经完成了普通教育的科学和数学课程：一门来自任何科学、统计学、大学代数的实验室课程，以及另外两门从生物、化学、地球科学、数学和计算机科学或物理中选择的课程。正在做出特别努力，将来自堪萨斯州西部农村的妇女、少数民族和非传统学生纳入新的课程序列。

Interdisciplinary (99)This project is developing a two-course sequence of integrated physical science and mathematics to prepare preservice elementary and secondary teachers to teach at the middle school level. Students tend to lose interest in mathematics and science at the middle school level, a loss often attributed to ill-prepared teachers. The lack of preparation is two-fold: elementary teachers teaching at the middle school lack content in the physical sciences, while secondary teachers lack appropriate pedagogical models for teaching at the middle school level. Realizing that teachers teach as they were taught, this two-course sequence is designed to develop pedagogical models embedded in content knowledge development of preservice teachers. The objectives of the project are to: 1) Develop comprehensive knowledge of the physical sciences and applications of mathematics in the study of science in preservice middle school teachers; 2) Develop a core of university faculty who have facility in modeling teaching styles appropriate for the preservice middle school teachers; 3) Develop a curriculum package that can be adapted by other universities for the instruction of preservice middle school teachers. The objectives are being achieved by having a team of four science and one education faculty adapt proven teacher-enhancement materials in the physical science and middle school curriculum into a two-course sequence. Key elements of this adaptation are the integration of mathematics, and a research investigation that extends throughout the course so that students develop a sense of doing "real science." The project is adapting materials from Operation Physics, Operation Chemistry, Project Astro, Project Earth Science, Powerful Ideas in Physical Science, and Mission Mathematics: Linking Aerospace and the NCTM Standards. These materials are being modified by including explicit mathematical applications within the science materials as has been done within Mission Mathematics. The faculty are receiving training on teaching with the learning cycle, cooperative learning, and community building. Participation in this two-course sequence provides a model for future teachers to adapt to their classrooms. Students enrolling in these courses are at the junior level and have completed the general education science and mathematics courses: one laboratory course from any science, statistics, college algebra, and two other courses selected from biology, chemistry, geosciences, mathematics and computer science, or physics. Special efforts are being made to recruit women, minority, and non-traditional students from rural western Kansas into the new course sequence.