Modeling Scientific Practice in High School Biology: A Next Generation Instructional Resource

该项目解决了高中科学教育面临的直接挑战：需要一个课程资源包，以支持高中生物课程完全符合核心思想，交叉概念和大学和职业准备标准的科学实践。该项目将开发一套资源，包括教育课程材料，教学工具，密集的教师专业发展，以及示范实施的视频文件，并调查教学资源对教师和学生学习的影响。整套课程资源包将与一个创新的在线课程生成器相结合，以促进一个不断改进的循环，因为教师记录了他们随着时间的推移对课程资源的适应。该项目分为四个阶段。在设计阶段，一个由大学教师和科学教育专家组成的团队与两名高中生物教师合作，修改现有的示范课程材料和教学支持，并使其符合大学和职业准备科学标准。这些新创建的材料和支持是由两个合作的教师和试点数据用于完善材料。一旦该软件包完成并完善，它将由另外10名高中生物教师实施。从实施数据将允许研究教师如何使用材料来计划他们的课程，如何在课堂上制定的材料和材料对学生学习的影响。该项目的最后阶段将是向公众传播由此产生的整套课程和研究结果。该项目利用，调整和放大NSF开发的资源，以前成功的研究人员和他们的工具，方法和支持。随着新的核心标准在全国范围内实施，对真正统一的课程和支持的需求将变得迫切。面对目前的改革，许多教师需要重新掌握技能和教学方法。该项目将满足这些需求，并为正在形成的高质量科学教育的国家愿景做出实质性贡献。

This project addresses an immediate challenge facing high school science education: the need for a curricular resource package to support a high school biology course fully aligned to the core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and scientific practices of College and Career Readiness standards. The project will develop a suite of resources including educative curricular materials, pedagogical tools, intensive teacher professional development, and video documentation of exemplary implementation and investigate the impact of the instructional resource on teacher and student learning. The full curricular resource package will be coupled with an innovative online lesson builder to foster a cycle of continuous improvement, as teachers document their adaptations to the curricular resources over time.The project has four phases. During the design phase a team of university faculty and science education experts work with two high school biology teachers to modify existing exemplary curriculum materials and instructional supports and align them to the College and Career Readiness science standards. These newly created materials and supports are piloted by the two collaborating teachers and data from the pilot are used to refine the materials. Once the package is complete and refined it will be implemented by an additional ten high school biology teachers. Data from the implementation will allow research into how teachers use the materials to plan their lessons, how the materials are enacted in classrooms and the effects the materials have on student learning. The final phase of the project will be to disseminate the resulting curriculum package and research findings to the public. The project leverages, aligns and amplifies the NSF-developed resources of previously successful researchers and their tools, methodologies and supports. The need for truly aligned curricula and supports will be pressing as new core standards are implemented across the nation. There is a need for re-tooling the skills and pedagogical approaches of many teachers in the face of the current reforms. The project will meet these needs and provide a substantive contribution to the emerging national vision of quality science education.