Sharing Science: Summer Institutes for High School Physics Teachers

穆尔黑德州立大学的物理和天文学系正在为准备不足的高中物理和物理科学教师提供一系列为期三周、四周的专业发展机会。这些研究所将从1990年开始连续三个夏天举行。学院的总体目标是提高教学内容的广度和教学技能。内容领域包括力学、波、电磁学、光学和现代物理学的精选领域。这些学院每年将为明尼苏达州、北达科他州和南达科他州三州地区的20-24名高中教师提供机会。预计大多数教师将就读于这三所学院。选定的参与者将代表私立和公立学校教师的良好组合，以及公平的性别组合。参与者每年暑假可以获得(8-10)个研究生学分。由于这些学院的设计重点是提高准备不足的教师的内容和教学技能，计划中的活动将包括基本数学技能教育法和教学方法以及物理内容的讲座、活动和读物。重点将放在实践活动上，如项目、制作讲座演示、使用计算机作为教/学辅助工具以及对主题内容进行批判性分析。将有机会提供帮助课程/教程，以提高学员解决问题的技能，并开发简单、廉价但具有良好教学效果的物理演示和实验室材料。嘉宾演讲者，包括有经验的高中教师，将被邀请与与会者就教学方法、教学和研究以及产业创新的各个方面进行互动。后续活动包括在穆尔黑德州立大学举行为期一天的会议和实地参观教师教室。表示长期致力于改善科学教育的两名高中教师(总统奖获得者或PTRAS)将参与各研究所活动的规划和实施，并参与制定综合评估程序，以确定该项目的效果。89,000美元的费用分摊相当于NSF奖励的40%。

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Moorhead State University is offering a series of three, four week, institutes providing professional development opportunities for underprepared high school physics and physical science teachers. The institutes will be held over three successive summers beginning in 1990. The overall objective of the institutes is the upgrading of breadth of content and teaching skills. The content areas are mechanics, waves, electromagnetism, optics and selected areas of modern physics. These institutes will provide opportunities for 20- 24 high school teachers, per year, from the tri-state region of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. It is expected that the majority of the teachers will attend all three institutes. Selected participants will represent a good mix of private and public school teachers, as well as an equitable gender mix. Participants can earn (8-10) graduate credits per summer. Since the institutes are designed to focus on the upgrading of the content and teaching skills of underprepared teachers, planned activities will involve lectures, activities and readings on basic mathematical skills pedagogy and teaching methods, as well as the physics content. A major emphasis will be on hands-on activities, such as projects, development of lecture demonstrations, the use of computers as teaching/learning aids, and the critical analysis of subject matter content. Opportunities will be available for help sessions/tutorials which will enhance the participant's problem solving skills and for the development of simple, inexpensive, but pedagogically sound, physics demonstration and laboratory materials. Guest speakers, including accomplished high school teachers, will be invited to interact with the participants on various aspects of teaching methods, pedagogy and research, and industrial innovations. Follow-up activities include one-day sessions at Moorhead State University and site visits to teachers classrooms. Two high school teachers, (Presidential Awardees or PTRAS) who have expressed a long term commitment for improved science education will be involved in the planning and delivery of the institutes' activities and in developing comprehensive evaluation procedures to determine the effectiveness of the project. Cost sharing in an amount of $89,000 equals 40% of the NSF award.