Creating Communities of Inquiry: Academia-Industry-Museum- Schools (AIMS)

将为来自波士顿、剑桥和马萨诸塞州福尔里弗的小学教师开设科学教育研究生课程，这些学校系统的少数族裔入学率很高。大多数教师将是少数族裔女性。它将包括三门在学校讲授的课程，以及一门教师将在工业或波士顿科学博物馆进行实地作业的课程。这三门校内课程将包括一门特定科学学科的课程和另外两门涵盖实践科学学习、用技术教授科学、以问题为中心的科学以及应用数学和科学工具等主题的课程。实地作业将包括在工业或博物馆的实际工作，以及如何将这些经验转化为有用的课堂活动的后续会议。教师将获得莱斯利学院的基础科学教育研究生证书，如果他们在五年内入学，可以将学分转换为科学教育硕士学位。该项目将由莱斯利学院的教职员工主导，并由小学科学教师、工业和博物馆科学家组成的咨询委员会提供协助。合作伙伴的费用分摊将占美国国家科学基金会资金的100%。

A graduate program in science education will be developed for elementary school teachers from schools in the Boston, Cambridge, and Fall River, Massachusetts, school systems which have high minority enrollments. Most of the teachers will be minority women. It will include three courses taught in the schools and one in which the teachers will be in a field assignment in industry or at the Boston Museum of Science. The three in-school courses will include one in a specific science discipline and two more covering topics such as Hands-on Science Learning, Teaching Science with Technology, Problem-centered Science, and Applied Mathematics and Science Tools. Field assignments will include actual work in industry or the museum coupled with follow-up sessions dealing with how to translate those experiences into useful classroom activities. Teachers will receive certificates of graduate work in elementary science education from Lesley College and can transfer the credits to a master's degree in science education program if they matriculate within five years. The program will be headed by Lesley College faculty members with the assistance of an advisory committee including elementary science teachers and industry and museum scientists. Cost sharing by the partners will total 100% of the National Science Foundation funding.