Science for Every Elementary School Child: The Ball State University/Ft. Wayne Plan

这一领导活动项目将增加科学和 80名公立和私立学校教师的教学能力 韦恩堡地区的K-5。 该项目的主要目标包括 制定和评估提高质量和数量的模式， 所有正规小学教师在一个 学区 教师教育将在一个 调查背景;教师将在咨询中得到支持 同时，他们将调查科学活动纳入自己的 随后，领导教师将与其他教师一起工作， 教师在他们的建筑物，并达到所有教室在36 韦恩堡社区学校系统和 路德私立学校系统。 2名优秀教师，1名 从等级K-3和一个从等级4-5，将作为催化剂， 改善每所学校的科学教学。 该项目是根据需求评估、试点研究和 科学教育文献的建议。 模型 包括大量的费用分摊和与合作伙伴的伙伴关系， 学区、大学和当地工业。 领导 该小组包括科学家、科学教育工作者和学校管理人员。 该模式包括制定和支持计划和方案 旨在使该项目的成果在2010年以后长期保持下去。 来自NSF的资助。 还计划进行彻底的文件 和传播成果。 该项目包括夏季 涉及科学和课程学术工作的活动 发展和整个学年的一系列活动， 利用这些夏季活动。 该模型还包括特殊的 为与教师一起工作的行政人员举办讲习班， 他们的学校

This Leadership Activities project will increase the science and the teaching competence of 80 public and private school teachers of grades K-5 in the Fort Wayne area. The project's principal goals include developing and assessing a model for increasing the quality and quantity of science taught by all regular elementary school teachers within a school district. The teacher education will occur within an investigative context; the teachers will receive support in consultation while they incorporate investigative science activities in their own classrooms; subsequently the lead teachers will work with the other teachers within their buildings and reach into all classrooms in the 36 elementary schools in the Fort Wayne community school system and in the Lutheran private school system. A team of 2 excellent teachers, one from grades K-3 and one from grades 4-5, will serve as catalysts for the improvement of science teaching within each school. The project is based upon a needs assessment, pilot study, and recommendations from the science education literature. The model includes significant cost sharing and partnerships with the cooperating school district, the university, and local industry. The leadership team includes scientists, science educators, and school administrators. The model includes the development and support of plans and programs designed to sustain the results of this project well beyond the period of funding from NSF. Plans are also underway for thorough documentation and the dissemination of results. The project includes summer activities involving academic work in science and in curriculum development and a series of activities throughout the academic year that build upon these summer activities. The model also includes special workshops conducted for administrators working with the teachers in their schools.