OPERATION PHYSICS: Development and Support of State Operation Physics Workshop Leader Training Programs

在操作物理项目252的最后阶段， 领导教师，他们是国家培训的OP成员 持续进行至少72小时OP的团队 每年举办讲习班，将参加全国行动 物理改进会议：1）改进OP产品 （2）传播当地发展的典范 增强OP材料和3）磨练技能， 在各自的讲习班中增加一批讲习班负责人 states. 在实现（3）的过程中，OP项目将继续进行， 在今后三年中，培训和支持三名成员， 由合格的个人组成的团队， 为当地4 - 8年级教师提供的方案 使用专门为该项目开发的研讨会工具包。 这些在职方案将提供上小学和 中学理科教师具有较好的 了解物理学主题通常包括在 他们的科学课程，并提供他们的想法， 有效地教他们的学生关于这些主题。 领导力培训计划在每个州都有计划， 得克萨斯州、南卡罗来纳州和康涅狄格州除外 他们已经完成了这样的计划。 大多数将 在大学或学院的校园里举行， 长度为1-4周。 节目主持人 将包括国家业务处工作人员和杰出的 1988年或1989年参加了 国家OP计划;所有主持人都进行了多次 与4 - 8年级教师成功的OP研讨会。 支持OP领导力培训计划， 由国家科学基金会提供， 来自州和地方的资金来源， 物理研究所。 申请参与的个人必须是专业人士 具有物理学专业知识的活跃的科学教育工作者和/或 中学前科学教育。 每位参与者将 收到一套全面的讲习班材料， 计划和执行在职OP时使用的物理主题 程序. 旅费、生活津贴、津贴和其他支助 培训项目的资金。 程序 参与者将被要求进行最低数量的 为目标对象教师举办的在职讲习班， 培训计划，并参加计划的后续行动 活动 这些同行领导的研讨会将介绍一个大型的 业务方案在职活动的乘数效应。 费用分摊相当于NSF奖励的180%。

In this final phase of the Operation Physics project 252 leader teachers, who are members of nationally trained OP teams that have continued to conduct at least 72 hours of OP workshops each year, will attend The National Operation Physics Improvement Conferences to: 1) improve OP products and services, 2) disseminate exemplary locally developed enhancements to OP materials and 3) hone skills to train a cadre of additional workshop leaders in each of their own states. In accomplishing (3), the OP project will continue, during the next three years, to train and support three member teams of qualified individuals to lead physics inservice programs for 4th-8th grade teachers in their local areas using workshop kits especially developed for the project. These inservice program will provide upper elementary and middle school teachers of science with a better understanding of the physics topics typically included in their science curriculum, and supply them with ideas for effectively teaching their students about these topics. Leadership training programs are planned in each state, with the exception of Texas, South Carolina, and Connecticut which have already completed such programs. Most will be held during the summer on a college or university campus, and range from 1-4 weeks in lengths. Program presenters will include national OP staff and teams of outstanding science educators who participated in the 1988 or 1989 national OP program; all presenters have conducted numerous successful OP workshops with 4th-8th grade teachers. Support for OP leadership training programs is being provided from the National Science Foundation as well as from state and local funding sources and the American Institute of Physics. Individuals applying for participation must be professional active science educators with expertise in physics and/or pre-secondary science education. Each participant will receive a comprehensive set of workshop materials for each physics topic to use in planning and conducting inservice OP programs. Travel, subsistence, stipends and other support for the training programs very from state to state. Program participants will be required to conduct a minimum number of inservice workshops for target audience teachers after the training program, and to participate in planned follow-up activities. These peer-led workshops will introduce a large multiplier effect for OP inservice activities. Cost sharing equals 180% of the NSF award.