Program for Excellence in Precollege Chemical Education at Northern Arizona University

北亚利桑那大学(NAU)将建立一项大学前化学教育卓越计划，在1990-1993学年的暑期和学年为192名普通高中和高级高中化学课程的教师提供全面的暑期培训经验。这些研讨会将由经验丰富的硕士高中教师和大学教职员工主持。该项目的目标是(1)鼓励改变高中化学教学方法，以更有力地展示现代技术在化学教学中的应用；(2)提供一支热情的、合格的教师队伍，教授普通化学和高级高中化学课程、荣誉、丰富和/或AP课程。作为这些工作坊的结果，这些教师所教授的课程应该具有足够的相关性、吸引力和挑战性，以鼓励更多的学生享受科学和在大专水平上学习化学。在这四年中，每年将挑选48名教师参加两个平行讲习班中的一个。其中一组将由具有足够的一年级化学课程教学内容背景，但在使用技术和现有科学教学方法(如合作学习和微型实验室)方面缺乏任何专业知识的教师组成。这个为期三周的研讨会将强调内容、技术和方法的融合。第二个为期三周的讲习班的参加者将从准备充分、内容丰富、熟悉使用技术的教师中挑选出来，但他们需要了解现代和/或更高级的主题，因为他们将被分配到教授第二级化学课程。瑙鲁大学过去曾非常成功地试行了这第二个讲习班。根据在NSTA区域会议上进行的几次调查的结果，当地教师表示，不仅需要继续和扩大这些高级化学讲习班，而且需要如上所述增加普通化学讲习班。大多数教师将从为大量少数族裔和代表不足的群体提供服务的地区挑选，包括西班牙裔和美洲原住民。一半至三分之二的项目参与者将来自这些人口群体。北亚利桑那大学凭借其专业知识和地理位置，证明了它有能力吸引该地区的教师参加高级化学教师研讨会。相当于NSF申请的大约30%的金额由NAU、学区和亚利桑那州艾森豪威尔数学和科学教育基金的补助金分担。

Northern Arizona University (NAU) will establish a Program for Excellence in Precollege Chemical Education to provide comprehensive summer training experiences for l92 teachers of general and advanced high school chemistry courses during the summers and academic years of l990-1993. These workshops will be conducted by experienced, master high school teachers and University faculty. The goals of the project are (1) to encourage changes in the methods of high school chemistry instruction to show more strongly the application of modern technology to the teaching of chemistry and (2) to provide a cadre of enthusiastic, well-qualified teachers to teach both general chemistry and advanced high school chemistry courses, honors, enrichment and/or AP courses. As a result of these workshops, the courses taught by these teachers should have sufficient relevance, appeal and challenge to encourage more students to enjoy science and to pursue chemistry at the postsecondary level. Forty eight teachers per year for each of the four years will be selected to attend one of two parallel workshops. One group will be comprised of those teachers who have an adequate content background for the teaching of a first-year chemistry course, but who lack any expertise in the use of technology and current science teaching methods, such as cooperative learning and microscale laboratory. This three-week workshop will stress the blend of content, technology, and methodology. The participants of the second three-week workshop will be selected from among teachers who are very well-prepared, content-wise and are comfortable with use of technology, but who need an update on modern and/or more advanced topics, since they are being assigned to teach a second-level chemistry course. NAU has piloted this second workshop very successfully in the past. As a result of several surveys taken at NSTA regional meetings, local teachers have expressed the need not only for the continuation and expansion of these Advanced Chemistry Workshops, but the addition of the General Chemistry Workshop as described above. The schools from which the majority of the teachers will be selected are in regions serving large numbers of minorities and underrepresented groups, both Hispanic and native American. One half to two thirds of project participants will come from those population groups. Northern Arizona University has demonstrated its ability to attract teachers from this region to workshops for advanced chemistry teachers on the basis of its expertise and geographical location. An amount equivalent to approximately 30% of the NSF request is being cost shared by the NAU, school districts and grants from the Eisenhower Math and Science Education funds of the State of Arizona.