Revisioning Earth Science Education in a Nontraditional Teacher Education Program

地球系统科学（40）这个项目正在修订现有的本科课程在地球科学，整合在教育，内容，技术和评估的专业知识。 该课程的目标受众是在联合研究所和大学（UI U）非传统教师教育计划在其佛罗里达学术中心（FAC）学习的职前教师。 该项目帮助FAC的主要少数民族师范教育学生实现内容知识符合佛罗里达的阳光州标准，提高他们对科学教育和科学过程的态度，并提高他们使用教学技术来学习科学的能力。为了服务于在这个低居住计划中学习的学生，该课程使用混合的在线/现场格式，强调在线调查和有限的现场协作会议和实地考察。 调查小组正在与目前在迈阿密-戴德县和布劳沃德县教小学的职前教师和大学校友进行磋商，以确定适当的练习，以提高对基于标准的地球科学主题的认识。 通过这个小组和一名外部评估员，该小组正在设计课程，遵循在线学习和基于问题的教学法的最佳实践，改编由旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学教师开发的地球系统科学课程的方法和材料，以及DLESE和MERLOT的材料。 在此项目期间开发的新课程材料和评估工具将通过DLESE，MERLOT和ERIC提供。

Earth Systems Science (40) This project is revising an existing undergraduate course in the earth sciences, integrating expertise in education, content, technology, and assessment. The target audience for the course is pre-service teachers studying in Union Institute and University's (UI&U) nontraditional teacher-education program at its Florida Academic Center (FAC). The project helps FAC's largely minority teacher-education students achieve content knowledge consistent with Florida's Sunshine State Standards, improve their attitudes towards science education and the scientific process, and enhance their ability to use instructional technology to learn about science. To serve students studying in this low-residency program, the course is using a blended online/live format that emphasizes online investigation and limited live collaborative sessions and field trips. The investigation team is consulting with pre-service teachers and university alumni currently teaching elementary school in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties to identify appropriate exercises to improve knowledge of standards-based earth science topics. With this group, and an outside evaluator, the team is designing the course following best practices in online learning and problem-based pedagogy, adapting approaches and materials from an earth systems science course developed by the faculty of San Francisco State University, and materials from DLESE and MERLOT.This project is aiding in the development of a system of best practices in online course offerings for UI&U's undergraduate programs nationwide. New course materials and assessment instruments developed during this project will be made available via DLESE, MERLOT, and ERIC.