Collaborative Research: Developing a Distance Learning Course for High School Geoscience Teachers

合作研究：为高中地球科学教师开发远程学习课程位于麦迪逊的威斯康星州的气象卫星研究合作研究所（CIMSS）和位于西雅图的华盛顿大学的应用物理实验室（APL）正在合作为高中科学教师建立一个基于探究的远程学习专业发展课程，该课程利用卫星技术教授地球系统科学。以观察为重点。课程设计峰会将汇集大师级教师、科学家、教育工作者和评估人员，共同制定地球科学课程。参加本次峰会的将有来自洛杉矶联合公立学校/加州州立大学、多明格斯山系统和麦迪逊大都会学区的成功城市学区SCALE（面向所有学习者的全系统变革）项目的大师级教师和项目工作人员。该课程将讲授遥感和空间分析的基本原理以及地球科学的四个内容领域：气象学/气候学、地质学、海洋学和地球系统。 它将利用交互式VISITview软件，该软件提供了一个在线内容传送工具，便于进行实时教学和讨论。沿着提供许多教学方面类似于传统的课堂教师，VISITview将使内容专家进行在线后续访问的教室。 该项目的教师招聘工作集中在美洲原住民、拉丁美洲人和非洲裔美国人社区，这些社区在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）以及地球科学方面的参与率和代表性最低。 教师将获得3个研究生学分完成课程，预计将成为常规UW课程的一部分，一旦这个试点项目已经完成和评估。

Collaborative Research: Developing a Distance Learning Course for High School Geoscience TeachersThe Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at the University of Washington in Seattle are collaborating to establish an inquiry-based distance learning professional development course for high school science teachers that teaches Earth System Science using satellite-based observations as the main focus. A Curriculum Design Summit will bring together master teachers, scientists, educators and evaluators to craft the geoscience curriculum. Included at this summit will be master teachers and program staff from the successful urban school district SCALE (System-wide Change for All Learners) programs in the Los Angeles Unified Public School/California State University, Dominguez Hills system and the Madison Metropolitan School District. The course will provide instruction on basic principles of remote sensing and spatial analysis, as well as four content areas of geoscience: meteorology/climatology; geology; oceanography; and Earth as a system. It will utilize the interactive VISITview software, which provides an on-line content delivery tool that facilitates real-time teaching and discussion sessions. Along with affording many instructional aspects similar to a traditional classroom for teachers, VISITview will enable content experts to make on-line follow-up visits to the classroom. Teacher recruitment efforts for this project are being concentrated in the Native American, Latino/Latina and African American communities, where participation and representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and in the geosciences is lowest. Teachers will receive 3 graduate credits for completion of the course, which is expected to become part of the regular UW curriculum once this pilot project has been completed and evaluated.