Refresher and Enrichment for High School Chemistry Teachers in Rural Midwestern U.S.

该项目旨在加强《世界人权宣言》的背景和筹备工作， 来自美国中西部农村的高中化学教师。 25名来自本地区的中学教师， 教化学，但他们的正式准备不足 在化学，将被选为第一阶段的参与者。 这些老师 将在第一个夏天（1990年）在一个密集的 预定的实验室和讲座研讨会期间，主题适用 高中化学将强调沿着适当的 实验室和示范活动。 参与者将工作 与指导教师密切合作，参与者/指导者的比例为5， 他们被认为是该地区强大的化学教师， 与项目工作人员。 计划在星期五/星期六举行两次会议， 夏季研讨会后的学年。 弗农·蒂尔曼博士 学生会及导师会进行广泛的跟进访问 和这些老师在他们的教室里 在项目的第二年，第二阶段将开始， 第一阶段至少有15名教师将继续学习 化学和进一步提高他们的教学策略高中 化学. 这个为期四周的夏季将包括几个理论上的 主题，更多的有机培训， 生物化学、环境化学和计算机辅助 教学和模拟。 其他教师， 被确定为至少有一个未成年人在化学将是 选择，以使第二阶段教师的人数， 二十五岁 这个更新项目是一个以前的高潮 成功地努力提高背景和教学 高中化学教师的教学策略。 这个项目 将达到大量的中学化学 中中西部州农村地区的教师 阿肯色州，爱荷华州，堪萨斯，密苏里州，内布拉斯加州和俄克拉荷马州。 农村地区的教师往往是最孤立的， 与同龄人的互动最少。 这个项目不仅 解决了内容和教学策略问题，但 建立 同事，导师和大学工作人员的网络。小 大约3%的赠款申请费用分摊表明， 该地区相对较差的财政状况，而不是 愿意分享专业知识和设施。

This project is designed to strengthen the background and preparation of high school chemistry teachers from rural Midwestern United States. Twenty-five secondary school teachers from this region who are assigned to teach chemistry but who have less than a minor of formal preparation in chemistry, will be selected as Phase I participants. These teachers will spend four weeks during the first summer (1990) in an intensively scheduled laboratory and lecture workshop during which topics applicable to high school chemistry will be emphasized along with appropriate laboratory and demonstration activities. The participants will work closely with mentor teachers, in a ratio of five participants/mentor, who are considered to be the area's strong chemistry teachers as well as with the project staff. Two Friday/Saturday sessions are planned for the academic year following the summer workshop. Dr. Vernon Thielmann of SMSU and the mentor teachers will conduct extensive follow-up visits with these teachers in their classrooms. During the second year of the project, Phase II will commence in which at least fifteen of the Phase I teachers will continue their study of chemistry and further enhance their strategies for teaching high school chemistry. This four-week summer will include several theoretical topics, more training in organic, biochemistry, environmental chemistry and computer-aided instruction and simulation. Additional teachers who have been identified as having at least a minor in chemistry will be selected in order to bring the number of Phase II teachers to twenty-five. This renewal project is the culmination of a previously successful effort to enhance the background and teaching strategies of high school chemistry teachers. This project will have reached a large number of the secondary chemistry teachers in the rural areas of the Central Midwest states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Teachers in rural areas tend to be among the most isolated and the least interactive with their peers. This project not only addresses the content and teaching strategies issues, but establishes a network of colleagues, mentors and University staff. The small cost-sharing of about 3% of the grant request is indicative of the relatively poor financial status in the area, not the willingness to share expertise and facilities.