SGER: Tsunami! Virtual Teacher Workshop

摘要：OCE-0515761为了应对最近印度洋发生的海啸，海洋科学司/海洋教育方案批准了举办一个在线教师讲习班的请求，该讲习班将为教师提供向学生解释这一事件所需的信息和教学技巧。教师们迫切需要了解这次特大自然灾害的特点，以解决学生的问题和关注。在科学家和教育界之间建立直接联系将有助于满足海啸造成灾难性生命损失的冲击中有关海啸的教育需求。探索学院（TCOE）将通过设计、开发和实施为期三周的虚拟教师研讨会，为教育工作者提供及时的信息。2005年，国家科学基金会支持的科学家和其他专家将以在线格式提供有关其研究的摘要信息，并异步与教育工作者进行互动对话。本次研讨会的总体目标是提高教师和学生对最近海啸的科学认识，以及在海啸灾难如此戏剧性地影响世界的时候，海啸已经并将继续成为一个重大新闻事件。研讨会将包括三到六个由海啸研究人员和来自国家科学基金会资助的科学家的专家进行的主题演讲，以及其他从事海啸相关研究和教育宣传的著名专家。讲习班将以异步方式举行，从而使参加者能够在三周时间内方便地参加。一个外部评价小组将评估讲习班作为专业发展工具的有效性，确定这种利用海啸内容为教育工作者创造及时应对自然灾害的创新学习经验的在线讲习班模式是否成功。

Abstract: OCE-0515761In response to the recent tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the Division of Ocean Sciences/Ocean Education Program awarded this request to hold an on-line teacher workshop that will provide teachers with information and teaching techniques necessary to explain this event to their students. The information will also be freely available on the web to anyone who is interested in it. Teachers have an immediate need to understand the characteristics of this recent overwhelming natural disaster to address their students' questions and concerns. Providing a direct link between scientists and the education community will help address educational needs about tsunamis in the midst of the shock of this event with its catastrophic loss of life.The College of Exploration (TCOE) will provide timely information to educators by designing, developing and implementing a three-week virtual teacher workshop in February, 2005 where NSF-supported scientists and other experts will present summary information in an online format about their research and be available asynchronously to interactively engage in dialogue with the educators. The overall goal of this workshop is to increase teachers' and students' awareness about the science of the recent tsunami and tsunamis in general at a time when this tragedy has been impacting the world so dramatically, and has been and continues to be a major news event.The workshop will include three to six keynote presentations by tsunami researchers and experts drawn from NSF-funded scientists, as well as others who are noteworthy experts engaged in tsunami-related research and educational outreach. The workshop will be offered asynchronously, thus allowing participants to take part at their convenience during the three-week period. An external evaluation team will assess the workshop's effectiveness as a professional development tool, determining the success of this model of online workshops using tsunami content to create innovative learning experiences for educators in timely response to a natural disaster.