UT SPICA - University of Toledo Support Program for Instructional Competency in Astronomy

本项目将加强和扩大对科学教育的支持，为中小学科学教师提供一系列暑期天文学研修班。该研究所将在托莱多大学（UT）进行，并将使用托莱多大学校园里特天文台和里特天文馆的设施。讲习班/研究所将于1991年、1992年和1993年夏季举行，为期三周（第一次讲习班定于1991年7月22日至8月9日举行）。每期工作坊将选出25名教师。这些教师将根据他们的背景和他们的系主任或校长的推荐来选择。这些教师将成为“领导者”，他们将学习UT的经验，并依次在地方和区域一级为其他有兴趣在其课程中使用天文学的教师领导天文学讲习班。托莱多大学的研讨会项目将以哈佛大学天体物理学中心非常成功的天文学教学能力支持计划（SPICA）为蓝本。UT-SPICA计划的主要目标是使用原始（通过其天文学根源进行科学教学）STAR-SPICA计划开发的材料和教学技术，并将其传播到教学界。费用分摊相当于国家科学基金会奖金的34%。

This project will strengthen and extend support of science education by offering a series of Summer Institutes in Astronomy for science teachers at secondary and elementary levels. This Institute will take place at the University of Toledo (UT), and will use facilities of the Ritter Observatory and Ritter Planetarium on the University of Toledo Campus. The workshops/institutes will take place during the summers of 1991, 1992 and 1993, and will last for three weeks (the first workshop is scheduled for July 22- August 9, 1991). Twenty-five teachers will be selected for each workshop. The teachers will be selected on the basis of their backgrounds and recommendations by their department head or principal. These teachers will be "leaders" who will learn from the UT experience and in turn lead astronomy workshops at local and regional levels for other teachers interested in using astronomy in their courses. The University of Toledo workshop programs will be modeled on the very successful Support Program for Instructional Competency in Astronomy (SPICA) conducted by the Center for astrophysics at Harvard University. It is a prime goal of the UT-SPICA program to use materials and instructional techniques developed by the original (Science Teaching through its Astronomical Roots) STAR-SPICA programs and disseminate them to the teaching community. Cost sharing equals 34% of the NSF award.