Scaffolding Teacher Learning in Support of Student Inquiry

支持学生探究的支架式教师学习

• 批准号: 0733143
• 负责人: Nancy Trautmann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0733143&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scaffolding; Teacher; Learning; Support; Student

This 3-year, exploratory Development of Resources and Tools project falls under the Instruction of K-12 Students and Teachers category. The project develops, pilots, and implements online professional development in support of inquiry, focusing on facilitation of student research. The goal is to determine what types of web-based experiences and resources are most effectively support middle school teachers in overcoming the substantial hurdles inherent in enabling students to design and conduct their own scientific experiments. Working closely with the New York State Department of Education, the project creates and tests a series of web-based professional development experiences for 7th and 8th grade teachers. The experiences support implementation of research by students using BirdSleuth curriculum resources developed with NSF funding by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.BirdSleuth is well suited as a pilot project for developing online teacher support because it is designed to engage students in authentic scientific research: making observations, collecting data, asking their own questions, drawing conclusions through research and observation, and publishing their results. This project endeavors to create effective and efficient techniques for scaffolding teachers as they use BirdSleuth to guide students through the various stages of designing, conducting, analyzing, and presenting the results of scientific experiments. Project findings provide the basis for a sustainable set of online resources to serve the needs of BirdSleuth teachers nationwide. If successful at improving the ability of teachers to implement independent inquiry in their classrooms, the project also will serve as a model for online professional development in other STEM projects and disciplines.

这个为期3年的资源和工具探索性开发项目属于K-12学生和教师类别的指导。该项目开发、试点和实施支持探究的在线专业发展，重点是促进学生的研究。其目标是确定哪些类型的基于网络的体验和资源最有效地支持中学教师克服使学生能够设计和进行自己的科学实验所固有的实质性障碍。该项目与纽约州教育部密切合作，为7年级和8年级教师创建并测试了一系列基于网络的专业发展经验。这些经验支持学生使用由康奈尔鸟类学实验室由NSF资助开发的BirdSleuth课程资源进行研究。BirdSleuth非常适合作为开发在线教师支持的试点项目，因为它旨在吸引学生参与真实的科学研究：进行观察、收集数据、提出自己的问题、通过研究和观察得出结论，并发布他们的结果。这个项目致力于为教师创造有效和高效的技术，让他们使用BirdSleuth来指导学生完成设计、进行、分析和展示科学实验结果的各个阶段。该项目的发现为一套可持续的在线资源提供了基础，以满足全国BirdSleuth教师的需求。如果在提高教师在课堂上实施独立探究的能力方面取得成功，该项目也将成为其他STEM项目和学科在线专业发展的典范。