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

跨学科（99）该项目正在开发一个综合物理科学和数学的两门课程序列，以培养初级和中级教师在中学一级任教。学生往往在中学阶段对数学和科学失去兴趣，这种损失往往归因于准备不足的教师。缺乏准备是双重的：在中学任教的小学教师缺乏物理科学的内容，而中学教师缺乏在中学一级教学的适当教学模式。认识到教师教，因为他们被教导，这两个课程序列的目的是开发嵌入在内容知识发展的副教师的教学模式。该项目的目标是：（1）培养普通中学教师对物理科学和数学在科学研究中的应用的全面知识;（2）培养一批大学教师，他们有能力为普通中学教师建立适当的教学风格; 3）开发一套课程，可供其他大学改编，用于指导普通中学教师。正在通过由四名科学和一名教育教师组成的小组将物理科学和中学课程中经过验证的教师增强材料改编成两门课程的顺序来实现这些目标。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调查，以便学生培养做“真实的科学”的意识。“该项目正在改编来自物理操作、化学操作、天文项目、地球科学项目、物理科学中的强大思想和使命数学的材料：将航空航天和NCTM标准联系起来。这些材料正在进行修改，包括明确的数学应用在科学材料，因为已经在使命数学。教师们正在接受关于教学与学习周期，合作学习和社区建设的培训。参加这两门课程的顺序为未来的教师提供了一个模式，以适应他们的课堂。参加这些课程的学生是初级水平的，他们已经完成了普通教育科学和数学课程：一门科学、统计学、大学代数的实验课程，以及从生物学、化学、地球科学、数学和计算机科学或物理学中选择的另外两门课程。正在作出特别努力，从堪萨斯西部农村招收妇女、少数民族和非传统学生参加新的课程。

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.