UCD/Northern California Science Project for Pre-College Secondary Honors Teachers of Physical Science

这个领导力活动项目将为来自加州中部和北部15个县的40名模范中学物理科学教师提供提升和专业发展经验。这个多年项目的总体目标包括更新和深化参与者的物理科学背景和教学方法，参与者和大学科学教师的网络，参与者在其家乡学校进行在职研讨会，对荣誉教师参与者的适当认可，向附近的学校系统传播项目材料和结果，并在仔细规划的文件、评估和评价工作中调查模型方法。教师和学校委员会将根据要求教师和学校承诺实施项目重点的详细申请来选择参与者。参与者将与大学科学家、一名全职科学课程专家和四名导师合作，完成为期三周的夏季研讨会和每月为期一天的会议，旨在提高他们对物理科学的概念理解，制定策略和材料，以全面理解基本概念和原理。并开发材料和技术用于在职研讨会的展示。参与者将获得加州大学戴维斯分校的学分。在参与者设计和举办的在职工作坊期间，科学课程专家和其他项目工作人员将提供咨询和支持。参与者将在他们的教室和工作室与他们的同龄人一起被访问和观察。仔细记录和分析这些观察和教师报告将为详细的项目评估提供重要的基础。

This Leadership Activities project will provide enhancement and professional development experiences for 40 exemplary secondary school physical science teachers from 15 counties throughout central and northern California. The overall goals of the multiyear project involve the updating and deepening of the participants' physical science backgrounds and teaching methodologies, the networking of the participants and university science faculty, the conduct of in-service workshops by the participants in their home schools, appropriate recognition for honors teacher participants, the dissemination of the project materials and results to nearby school systems, and the investigation of the modelistic approach within a carefully planned documentation, assessment and evaluation effort. Selections of participants by a faculty and school committee will be based upon detailed applications requiring expressions of teacher and school commitments to implement project emphases. Working with university scientists, a full-time science curriculum specialist and four mentor teachers, the participants will complete a three-week summer workshop and monthly day-long meetings designed to increase their conceptual understanding of physical sciences, to develop strategies and materials for teaching thorough understanding of fundamental concepts and principles, and to develop materials and techniques for use in their presentation of in-service workshops. Participants will earn academic credits from the University of California, Davis. During the in-service workshops which the participants will design and conduct, the science curriculum specialist and other project staff will be available for consultation and support. Participants will be visited and observed in their classrooms and in their workshops with their peers. Careful documentation and analysis of these observations and of teacher reports will provide a significant basis for a detailed project evaluation.