Training Leadership Teachers to Enhance Science Education through Experiments and Demonstrations (SEED)

SEED项目是为中学教师举办的为期四周的暑期研讨会，重点是使用廉价材料教授物理科学的基本概念和原理。该计划的核心是一本包含150多个实验的手册和一个支持演示的工具包。除了研讨会，还包括参观当地的研究和工业设施，以及东北大学研究人员的演讲。参加SEED讲习班的教师随后将接受为期两年的领导力培训(PRO-SEED)，为他们在自己的学区开展在职活动讲习班做好准备。这个课外计划的“老师教老师”将被命名为“前种子”。该项目的另一个组成部分是培训退休科学家在46个月的资助48名带头人教师的过程中担任学校(RE-SEED)的科学资源代理(SRA)。将教授16名同行教师和70名退休技术专业人员。该计划的其他特点包括使用：*在每个前种子研讨会之前，由马萨诸塞州教育电信公司(MCET)卫星网络向前种子领导人和参与者分发的现场互动电视广播。*博物馆风格的走廊展品将在学校内为学生分发。费用分摊比例估计为85%。

Project SEED is a four week summer workshop for middle school teachers that focuses on the use of inexpensive materials to teach the basic concepts and principles of physical science. The core of the program is a manual of over 150 experiments and a kit of supporting demonstrations. In addition to workshop sessions visits to local research and industrial facilities and talks by Northeastern University research faculty are included. Teachers who have participated in SEED workshop will then receive two years of leadership training(PRO-SEED) to prepare them to conduct in-service activity based workshops in their own school districts. This after school program of "teachers teaching teachers" will be named EX-SEED. An additional component of the project is to train retired scientists to act as Science Resource Agents(SRA'S) within the schools(RE-SEED) Over the 46 months of funding 48 leader teachers, 16 peer teachers and 70 retired technical professionals will be taught. Additional features of the program involve the use of: * Live interactive telecasts distributed by Massachusett's Corporation for Educational Telecommunications(MCET) satellite network to EX-SEED leaders and participants prior to each EX-SEED workshop. * Museum-style corridor exhibits to be distributed within the schools for students. Cost sharing is estimated at 85%.