Development of Regional Model for Bringing Hands-on Science to Underserved Populations

该提案为旧金山湾区四个目标城市社区的200名中学教师提供了专业发展计划和结构化的科学机会。教师将几乎完全来自人口服务不足和多种族的地区。在为期三年的时间里，教师将通过暑期学院和学年期间的特别会议接受以探究为基础的物理科学培训。培训将包括一个为期80小时的强化暑期讲习班和特别返校课程，以探索学院师范学院开发的现有成功模式为基础。该项目的目标是在四个目标社区中的每个社区培养一个核心教师群体，他们对实践科学的参与程度逐渐提高，而且在师范学院偶尔给予后续关注的情况下，他们将能够独立开展专业合作。费用分摊相当于NSF奖励的43%。

This proposal provides a plan for professional development and structured opportunities in science to 200 middle school teachers in four targeted urban communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The teachers will be almost exclusively from districts whose populations are underserved and multi- ethnic. Over a period of three years, teachers will receive training in inquiry-based physical science through summer institutes and special sessions during the academic year. Training will include an intensive 80-hour summer workshop and special return sessions, based on successful existing models developed at the Exploratorium Teacher Institute. The goal of the project is to develop a core group of teachers in each of the four target communities, who have had progressively more responsible levels of involvement with hands-on science, and who, with occasional follow-up attention from the Teacher Institute, will be capable of carrying on a professional collaboration on their own. Cost sharing is equivalent to $43% of the NSF award.