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辛大学气象卫星研究合作研究所（CIMSS）和位于西雅图的华盛顿大学应用物理实验室（APL）正在合作为高中科学教师建立一个以探究式远程学习为基础的专业发展课程，以卫星观测为主要重点教授地球系统科学。课程设计峰会将汇集大师教师、科学家、教育工作者和评估人员，共同制定地球科学课程。本次峰会将包括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成功的城市学区SCALE（全系统改变所有学习者）项目的大师教师和项目人员。本课程将介绍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;以及地球作为一个系统。它将利用交互式VISITview软件，该软件提供在线内容交付工具，促进实时教学和讨论。除了为教师提供许多与传统课堂类似的教学方面外，VISITview还将使内容专家能够对课堂进行在线跟踪访问。该项目的教师招聘工作主要集中在美洲原住民、拉丁裔/拉丁裔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度和代表性最低。完成该课程的教师将获得3个研究生学分，一旦该试点项目完成并评估，该课程预计将成为西澳大学常规课程的一部分。

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.