Planning and Development of the Birmingham Center for Teaching and Learning in Science, Math and Technology

伯明翰科学、数学和技术教学中心的规划和发展

• 批准号: 0119707
• 负责人: David Radford
• 金额: $ 19.52万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama at Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2002-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0119707&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Development; Birmingham; Center; Teaching

This project is to build the institutional capacity and partnerships needed to develop a full center for teaching and learning at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. A full center as it is envisioned will focus on issues of importance for teaching middle school science and mathematics in an urban setting. Included are such issues as the recruitment of second career professionals, upgrading the knowledge and skills of existing teachers through improved professional development programs, learning how to take advantage of the abundant resources of informal science institutions that tend to be located in urban settings, and improving the undergraduate preparation of science and math teachers. During this developmental project relationships will be developed with business, industry, the military and other sources of second-career teachers; a program will be developed to provide high school students with opportunities to teach science and mathematics to younger students; a leadership training program will be established to begin building the capacity to provide professional development to the teachers of Birmingham; and relationships will be developed with the McWane Science Center, existing outreach programs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the Birmingham Public Schools.

该项目旨在建立所需的机构能力和伙伴关系，以在伯明翰的阿拉巴马大学建立一个完整的教学中心。按照设想，一个完整的中心将专注于在城市环境中教授中学科学和数学的重要问题。包括招聘第二职业专业人员，通过改进专业发展计划提升现有教师的知识和技能，学习如何利用往往位于城市环境的非正式科学机构的丰富资源，以及改善科学和数学教师的本科准备。在这一发展项目期间，将与商业、工业、军事和其他来源的第二职业教师发展关系；将制定一项计划，为高中生提供向年轻学生教授科学和数学的机会；将建立一项领导力培训计划，以开始建设为伯明翰教师提供专业发展的能力；并将与麦克韦恩科学中心、阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校现有的外联计划和伯明翰公立学校发展关系。