Arkansas STRIVE: A Joint Venture For Math/Science Teacher Enhancement Through Involvement In Research

位于小石城的阿肯色大学正在寻求三年的支持，以建立一个自我维持的项目，将中学数学/科学教师安置在大学或工业实验室的研究岗位上。阿肯色州/斯特拉夫项目是由一个为期三年的试点项目发展而来的，该项目由美国国家科学基金会通过橡树岭联合大学（ORAU）和阿肯色州的六家企业和机构提供资金支持。该项目最终每年将为至少50名中学数学/科学教师提供研究经验。教师将进行为期7周的研究。之后，他们将花一周的时间在课程开发的中心站点，以制定教师个人教学活动的改进计划，并在各自的生命科学、物理科学或数学/计算机领域为课程改革建议报告的编写做出贡献。每学年至少安排五次以上的会议，每位与会者负责指导所在学校/学区的其他教师。该计划的一个成果将是注入研究研讨会，制作视频、电脑和其他材料，这些材料将提供给阿肯色州和全国的教师。费用分摊占所要求资金的94%。

The University of Arkansas, Little Rock is requesting three years of support to build a self sustaining program to place secondary math/science teachers in research positions in university or industrial laboratories. Arkansas/STRIVE has developed from a three year pilot program which was supported both by NSF funds through Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) and six Arkansas businesses and institutions. the program will ultimately provide research experiences for at least 50 secondary math/science teachers per year. The teachers will engage in research for 7 weeks. They will afterwards spend one week at a central site on curriculum development leading to a plan for improvement in the teacher's personal pedagogical activities and to contributions to the preparation of a Recommendation for Curriculum Change report in their respective area of Life Science, physical Science or Mathematics/Computer. A minimum of five more meetings are scheduled during the academic year with each participant being responsible for mentoring 5 other teachers in their school/school district. One result of the program will be to infuse the research workshops, to create video, computer and other materials which will be made available to teachers throughout Arkansas and nationally. Cost sharing is 94% of the funds requested.