The Earth Science Storybook Project: Building Content Knowledge and Teaching Confidence in Preservice Teachers

地球科学故事书项目：为职前教师建立内容知识和教学信心

• 批准号: 0224322
• 负责人: Barry Bickmore
• 金额: $ 5.99万
• 依托单位: Brigham Young University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-15 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0224322&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Earth; Science; Storybook; Project; Building

The Earth Science Storybook ProjectThe Earth Science Storybook Project is a pilot project based upon the premise that current reform efforts in science education must have a focus on teacher education. The project develops a process whereby university faculty can serve as positive mentors to preservice teachers and foster sound professional development for teachers. The project presents preservice teachers the opportunity to research and write standards-based children's literature (storybooks) in earth science and test the idea that use of creative skills will be a meaningful learning experience leading to a more successful degree of professional development for teachers. Earth scientists help the preservice teachers to create scientifically sound products that teach concepts required by state and national standards for the K-4 grade levels. These geoscientists work with the participants to design simple experiments that will be included in the storybook narratives designed to promote scientific investigation in K-4 classes. The emphasis on the design and implementation of experiments gives the participating preservice teachers and K-4 students a glimpse of the way science is practiced. Elementary education majors enrolled in an introductory geology class at Brigham Young University are mentored as they research a specific earth science topic and write a short storybook on that topic. Potential storybook topics are taken from national and state science education standards and are appropriate for children at the K-4 level. Participating preservice teachers are mentored throughout the process of creating their storybooks in order to foster development of positive attitudes toward scientific inquiry and enhanced pedagogical content knowledge in science. The storybooks will be professionally illustrated. As the project continues past the pilot stage, it will focus on dissemination of the storybooks into a local school district. Assessment of the storybooks themselves will be conducted in terms of their affective outcomes on teachers and students and their effectiveness in fostering development of content knowledge for K-4 students at the district level.

地球科学故事书项目地球科学故事书项目是一个试点项目，其前提是当前科学教育的改革努力必须侧重于教师教育。该项目开发了一个进程，使大学教师能够成为副教师的积极导师，并促进教师的良好专业发展。该项目为在职教师提供了研究和编写地球科学方面的标准儿童文学（故事书）的机会，并验证了这样一种想法，即使用创造性技能将是一种有意义的学习经验，有助于教师更成功地实现专业发展。地球科学家帮助副教授创造科学合理的产品，教授K-4年级的国家和国家标准所要求的概念。这些地球科学家与参与者一起设计简单的实验，这些实验将被纳入旨在促进K-4课程科学调查的故事书叙述中。对实验的设计和实施的强调，使参与的副教授和K-4学生对科学的实践方式有了一个粗略的了解。在杨百翰大学（Brigham Young University）的地质学入门课程中，小学教育专业的学生在研究一个特定的地球科学主题并就此主题写一本短篇故事书时受到指导。潜在的故事书主题取自国家和州科学教育标准，适合K-4水平的儿童。参与的副教授在编写故事书的整个过程中都得到指导，以促进对科学探究的积极态度的发展，并增强科学教学内容的知识。故事书将配有专业插图。随着该项目在试点阶段的继续，它将侧重于在当地学区传播故事书。至于故事书本身的评估，则会从教师和学生对故事书的感受，以及故事书在地区层面促进幼儿园至四年级学生知识发展的成效等方面进行。