Research Experience for High School Master Biology Teachers

这是一个为期三年的项目，共有28名优秀的高中生物教师，他们来自卡本代尔南伊利诺伊大学200英里半径范围内的一个地区。它旨在实现以下目标：(1)确定并认可这些教师在研究方法和探究过程在高中生物教学中的应用方面的在职培训；(2)通过提高生物教师的专业能力来提高教育质量，并让这些教师参与实验室研究的各个阶段，使他们在实践科学和探究方法时更有信心；(3)对这些教师进行科学教学策略的教学培训，以支持高中生物教学内容；(4)以具有社会意义和切实的方式向这些老师致敬。14位具有活跃研究项目的科学教授将担任导师，并在项目期间与每位老师合作。在这三个阶段的计划中，教师将为开展研究做好充分的准备和背景，在导师的指导下积极开展研究项目，并开发材料，使他们能够将研究结果和研究方法传授给学生。农村有经验的教师群将为他们的同行提供服务，全国生物教师协会（NABT）电子公告板网络将促进教师之间以及教师与其大学导师之间的传播。此外，参与者自己选择的课程由大学提供免学费。

This is a three year project for 28 exemplary high school biology teachers from a region within a 200-mile radius of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. It is designed to implement the following goals: (1) identify and recognize these teachers for inservice training in research methodology and application of the inquiry process to teaching high school biology; (2) improve the quality of education by enhancing the professional competence of biology teachers and to engage these teachers in all phases of laboratory research, allowing them to become more confident in practicing science and inquiry approach; (3) offer these teachers pedagogical training in science teaching strategies to support the content in teaching high school biology; and (4) honor those teachers in a socially significant and tangible manner. Fourteen professors of science with active research programs will serve as mentors and will work with 2 teachers each for the duration of the project. In this three phase program, teachers will be given a thorough preparation and background for conducting their research, will actively work on their research project under the tutelage of their mentor, and will develop materials that will enable them to carry the results and the methodology of their research to their students. Rural clusters of experienced teachers will provide inservice for their peers and the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) electronic bulletin board network will facilitate dissemination among the teachers and between the teachers and their University mentors. In addition, coursework of the participant's own choosing is offered tuition-free by the University.