CIPS Professional Development Project

这个计划为期三年的项目将为学区提供一个强大的专业发展包，以支持中学课程“构建物理科学的想法(CIPS)”的实施。该一揽子计划将包括一项计划，在两年内让教师参与120小时的实质性专业发展。这些材料包括一个为期一周的“入门”工作坊，向教师介绍CIPS，七个后续工作坊的材料，一个CIPS用户网站和两个CIPS讨论论坛。后续讲习班解决了教师在教授CIPS的头两年中的紧急需求，并介绍和支持用户网站和论坛的使用。后者将支持基于网络的关于科学教学、学生学习和物理科学的讨论。该包将由经验丰富的大学体育教育研究人员、中学科学教师和其他专家组成的团队开发，并将在全美三个大型学校系统进行试点和现场测试。项目评估将包括课堂观察，目的是监督教师的实践和学生的学习。

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.