Science/Math Instructional Improvement for American Reservation Indian Students

该项目的主要目标是为70名小学和初中学生提供 学校教师超过16个州的地区和学校， 主要是美国印第安学生，这是一个在职计划， 在一个小得多的规模上进行试点，资金由主席团捐助， 印度事务部（BIA）。打算建立一支70人的干部队伍 数学和科学教师领导的BIA经营小学 和全国各地的初中。这些领导人将承担 各种角色，如提供示范课， 在职培训班，协调课程开发， 地方机构计划在学校或区域一级进行改进。 活动围绕研讨会及其扩展展开， 在过去三年的试验研究中发展出来。的 第一个夏季讲习班为期八周，强调 这些活动：1）将有数学课程教授的 PI根据试点经验制定的方法; 2）一个 高级教员，在工作人员的协助下， 试点的参与者，强调诊断和补救方法 数学技能; 3）科学和数学的应用 教学将由两名美国印第安人开发， 在这方面有经验并得到 一位来自保留地的教师，她在自己的学校里应用了这些方法。 教学研究生院学分可提供给参与者， 请求过程中将有大量的科学和数学实验室 以及在导师的指导下进行实地考察。BIA计划 为项目做出重大贡献，并为以下方面提供投入： 项目计划和教师的选择。例如，BIA将 资助其中一所目标学校编制教材套 并将在以往工作的基础上，帮助执行 干部在当地的贡献。

The main goals of the project are to offer to 70 elementary and middle school teachers over a sixteen state region and at schools that service primarily American Indian students an inservice program that has been piloted on a much smaller scale on funds contributed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). It is intended to build up a cadre of 70 mathematics and science teacher-leaders for the BIA operated elementary and junior high schools across the country. These leaders are to take on various roles, such as providing demonstration lessons, conducting inservice sessions, coordinating curriculum development and working with local agencies to plan improvements at the school or regional levels. The activities are centered around workshops and their extensions that were developed in the pilot studies over the past three years. The initial summer workshop covers a period of eight weeks and emphasizes these activities: 1) there are to be mathematics courses taught by the PI according to the methods developed from the pilot experience; 2) one of the senior faculty members, with assistance from the staff and participants of the pilot, emphasizes diagnostic and remediation methods for mathematics skills; and 3) applications of science and mathematics teaching are to be developed for the American Indian setting by two of the staff members who have experience in this area and are assisted by a teacher from a reservation who has applied these methods in her teaching. Graduate college credit is available to the participants upon request. There are to be extensive science and mathematics laboratories and field trips under the direction of the instructors. The BIA plans to contribute significantly to the project as well as to provide input to the project plan and selection of teachers. The BIA, for example, will fund the development of a curriculum kit at one of the target schools and will build on the previous work to help in the implementation of the cadres' contributions in the local regions.