CIPS Professional Development Project

这个为期三年的项目将为学区制定一个强有力的专业发展方案，以支持中学课程“构建物理科学思想”（CIPS）的实施。“该一揽子计划将包括一个计划，让教师在两年的时间里进行120小时的实质性专业发展。 这些材料将包括一个为期一周的“入门”讲习班，向教师介绍CIPS，七个后续讲习班的材料，一个CIPS用户网站和两个CIPS讨论论坛。 后续讲习班解决教师在教授CIPS的头两年的紧急需要，并介绍和支持使用用户网站和论坛。 后者将支持关于科学教学、学生学习和物理科学的网上讨论。 该软件包将由经验丰富的大学物理科学教育研究人员，中学科学教师和其他专家组成的团队开发，并将在美国三个大型学校系统进行试点和实地测试。项目评估将包括课堂观察，以监测教师的做法和学生的学习。

The intended three-year project will produce a robust Professional Development package for school districts to support the implementation of the middle school curriculum, "Constructing Ideas in Physical Science (CIPS)." The package will include a program to engage teachers in 120 hours of substantive professional development over a period of two years. The materials will consist of a weeklong "getting started" workshop to introduce teachers to CIPS, materials for seven follow-up workshops, a CIPS user's site and two CIPS discussion forums. The follow-up workshops address teachers' emergent needs during the first two years of teaching CIPS and introduce and support the use of the users site and forums. The latter will support web-based discussions about science teaching, student learning and physical science. The package will be developed by an experienced team of university physical science education researchers, middle school science teachers and other experts, and will be piloted and field tested at three large school systems throughout the United States. Project evaluation will include classroom observations for the purpose of monitoring teacher practice and student learning.