Program for Leadership in Earth Systems Education

地球系统教育领导力计划是国家、地区和地方地球科学教育领导者之间的合作努力。该项目的国家协调中心将设在俄亥俄州立大学。教师团队将从50个州中的每一个州中挑选出一个教师团队，每个团队包括一名高年级、一名初中或一名高中教师，并在两个地区中心(俄亥俄州立大学的东部中心和北科罗拉多大学的西部中心)中的一个进行为期三周的暑期研讨会。在该项目的四年时间里，教师将准备有关地球的最新活动和信息。团队将选择广泛涉及行星地球系统的示范性教学材料，使用由教师、科学教育工作者和科学家组成的国家规划委员会编制的K-12课程大纲作为指南，并由团队根据其所在地区的适用性进行修改。教学大纲将以1988年4月举行的教育工作者和地球科学家会议确定的目标和概念框架为基础，并辅之以对2061年项目第一阶段成果的分析所获得的对植物地球的理解。学员可以获得六个学期的毕业学分。参赛队将确定一名当地学校管理人员和一名当地大学联络人作为资源代理。两人都将被邀请参加在团队夏季研讨会的最后一周举行的关于该计划目标的会议。三名小组成员和两名联络员将共同作为一个相互支持小组，为改进有关地球系统的课程和教学提供刺激，并由于四年级以上的所有教学级别都有代表，因此将在其学校、地点和州提供一种明确的方法。暑期工作坊结束后，每个小组将使用其教学大纲和相关教材在各自所在的州和地区举办至少两次工作坊。还将在国家统计局的每一次区域和国家会议上举办关于地球教学大纲和教材的适当区域版本的讲习班。因此，大约4000名教师将在项目的整个生命周期中得到直接帮助。所有参与者和工作人员以及整个地球科学教育界之间的交流将通过由通讯和电子地球系统教育会议(使用PSI-Net)组成的网络来促进，这两个会议都将在项目结束后由俄亥俄州立大学维持。费用分摊金额为158,870美元，相当于NSF奖励的15%。

The Program for Leadership in Earth Systems Education is a cooperative effort among national, regional and local leaders in earth science education. The project's national coordinating center will be at Ohio State University. Teacher teams, each including an upper elementary, a middle or junior high school and a senior high school teacher will be selected from each of the 50 states and prepared at one of two regional centers (an Eastern Center at Ohio State University and a Western Center at Northern Colorado University) each conducting three-week long summer workshops. During the four-years of the project, 64 teachers will be prepared with updated activities and information regarding Planet Earth. Teams will select exemplary instructional materials dealing broadly with planet Earth systems using as a guide a K-12 syllabus prepared by a national planning committee of teachers, science educators, and scientists and modified by the teams for appropriateness for their own locality. The syllabus will have been based on a framework of goals and concepts identified at a Conference of Educators and Geoscientists held in April, 1988, supplemented by plant Earth understandings obtained from an analysis of Project 2061, Phase I results. Participants may earn six-semester hours of graduate credit. Teams will identify a local school administrator and a local college liaison as resource agents. Both will be invited to attend a conference on the objectives of the program held during the last week of the teams' summer workshop. Together the three team members and the two liaisons will act as a mutual support group to provide a stimulus for improving curriculum and instruction regarding planet Earth systems and, since all teaching levels above the fourth grade are represented, provide an articulated approach in their schools, locales and states. Subsequent to the completion of their summer workshop, each team will conduct a minimum of two workshops in their state and locality using their syllabus and correlated teaching materials. Workshops on appropriate regional versions of the planet Earth syllabi and teaching materials will also be offered at each of the regional and national meetings of the NSTA. As a result, some 4000 teachers will have been directly assisted by the project over its life-span. Communication between all participants and staff, and the earth science education community at large, will be facilitated through networking consisting of a newsletter and an electronic Earth Systems Education Conference (using PSI- NET) both of which will be maintained by Ohio State University beyond the end of the project. Cost sharing in an amount of $158,870 equals 15% of the NSF award.