Geoscience Education Research to Enhance Effective Professional Development for In-Service Teachers: New Research Opportunities in the San Diego Region

加强在职教师有效专业发展的地球科学教育研究：圣地亚哥地区的新研究机会由于学校对地球科学的需求增加，对职前和在职教师的地球科学专业发展研讨会的需求激增。加州最大的专业发展项目之一是由K-12联盟运营的，这是一个多机构合作组织。PI和他的研究小组作为内容促进者和研究人员参与了这个项目，并正在评估项目的部分内容，包括对课堂实践的直接影响。该项目支持学生进行一些评估活动，通过在托里松州立公园的始新世到更新世岩石的良好暴露序列，对沉积岩，沉积环境和随时间变化的新实地调查驱动单元的影响和有效性进行研究。所有参与者都将接受测试前和测试后的总结性评估，选定的参与者将在实地体验前后接受访谈，并跟踪测量实地练习对下一学年课堂实践的影响。

Geoscience Education Research to Enhance Effective Professional Development for In-Service Teachers: New Research Opportunities in the San Diego RegionDue to increased demand for Geosciences in schools, there is a surge in the demand for geoscience professional development workshops for both pre- service and in-service teachers. One of the largest professional development programs in California is run by the K-12 Alliance, a multi-agency collaborative organization. The PI and his research group are participating as content facilitators and researchers in this program and are assessing portions of the project including immediate impacts on classroom practice. This project supports students who will perform some of these assessment activities to conduct research on the impact and effectiveness of a new field-based, inquiry-driven unit on sedimentary rocks, depositional environments and change through time using a well exposed sequence of Eocene through Pleistocene rocks at Torrey Pines State Park. All participants undergo pre- and post-test summative evaluation, and selected participants will be interviewed before and after the field experience, and tracked to measure the impact of the field exercise on classroom practice over the coming school year.