Teacher Networked Teams (TNT)

北亚利桑那大学已经与七所小学建立了合作关系，每一所小学都以少数民族学生为主，这将通过在每所学校发展和支持教师团队，即资源专家团队来实施良好的科学课程，从而提高这些学校的科学教学质量。该项目是一个模式，为资源专家团队提供以下培训机会：(1)增强多元文化意识，使团队能够将基于文化的科学纳入其教学中的主要概念和主题；(2)丰富跨学科的内容，使教师能够在教学中利用各学科的主题发展科学的组织概念；(3)加强将教师的内容知识转化为建构主义学习观的发展，以指导课程开发和教学策略。项目工作人员正在提供下列支助系统，以执行培训的目标和目的：(1)发展资源专家小组，作为利用少数民族学校作为改进科学教育的有效单位的典范；(2)协助资源专家小组实施课程、获取资源和信息；(3)在全区建立有效的教师网络团队交付系统。

Northern Arizona University has formed an articulation with seven elementary schools, each with a predominantly minority student enrollment, that will improve the quality of science teaching in those schools by developing and supporting teams of teachers, Resource Specialist Teams, in each school to implement good science programs. The program is a model that is providing the following training opportunities for the Resource Specialist Teams: (1) enhancement of multicultural awareness so that teams can incorporate culture-based science into major concepts and themes in their teaching; (2) interdisciplinary content enrichment so that teachers can develop organizing concepts in science using topics from all disciplines in their teaching; (3) enhanced translation of teachers' content knowledge into the development of a constructivist perspective of learning that guides curriculum development and teaching strategies. The project staff are providing the following support systems to implement the goals and objectives of the training: (1) development of Resource Specialist Teams as a model for the utilization of the minority school as the effective unit for improvement of science education; (2) assistance for the Resource Specialists Teams with implementation of curriculum, access to resources and information; and (3) establishment of an effective delivery system of Teacher Networked Teams throughout the region.