Integrating Understanding Science into Pre-Service Teaching

拨款给加州大学伯克利分校，为职前和在职教师举办为期三天的研讨会，以告知与理解科学网页相关的教学模块、活动和策略的发展。研讨会的成果将是一个在线的、灵活的、互动的教学大纲，它将促进将“理解科学”网站的材料整合到职前教师的科学方法课程中。预期目标包括：总结目前职前教师所教授的科学方法课程的特点；明确指导职前教师的资源需求；建议将“理解科学”网站的组成部分纳入科学方法课程，并在必要时提出重新包装的模式；确定将这些资源纳入科学方法课程的有效策略；开发《理解科学101》各部分的自评材料；确定传播策略。与会者包括“理解科学”项目成员、职前教师教育者、在职教师、科学家和来自全国各地的科学教育者。研讨会将于2012年初在加州大学伯克利分校古生物学博物馆举行。

Funds are granted to the University of California - Berkeley to hold a three day workshop for pre-service and in-service teachers to inform the development of teaching modules, activities, and strategies related to the Understanding Sciences web page. The outcome of the workshop will be an online, flexible, interactive syllabus that will facilitate the integration of Understanding Sciences website material into science methods courses for pre-service teachers. The expected goals include: summarize the characteristics of science methods courses as pre-service teachers are currently being taught; articulate the resource needs of those who instruct pre-service teachers; recommend components of the Understanding Sciences website for incorporation into science methods courses and propose models for re-packaging if necessary; identify effective strategies for incorporating these resources into science methods courses; development of self-assessment materials for each section of Understanding Science 101; and determine strategies for dissemination. Attendees at the meeting will include members of the Understanding Science project, pre-service teacher educators, in-service teachers, scientists, and science educators from around the country. The workshop will take place at the University Of California Museum Of Paleontology, Berkeley in early 2012.