Curriculum Development of pre- and in-service teacher education program aimed for the improvement of scientific teaching ability and the utilization of local characteristics.

我们讨论了一个新的科学教师教育计划，该计划为教师和学生提供提高的科学素养和能力，同时他们使用当地的资源作为教材，并继续长期调查他们的想法。我们还考察了日本和美国的几种教师教育制度。为了开展在职培训，我们为新的小学和初中科学课程编写了几份教材，并为教师提供了讲习班。

We discuss a new science teacher education program that provides teachers and students with improved scientific literacy and abilities, while they use local resource as teaching materials, and continue to investigate their ideas over a long term. We also examine several teacher education systems in Japan and United States. For the purpose of an in-service training program, we have developed several teaching materials for a new elementary and junior high school science curriculum and provided workshops for teachers.