Vermont Rivers Teacher Enhancement Project

9353347海斯勒这个项目将为佛蒙特州的中级和九年级和十年级教师提供一个为期3周的强化在职住宿暑期学院。内容重点是以活动为基础的水生生态为载体，为教师和学生开发和教授综合数学、科学和技术模型。从1994年开始的三个夏天里，每年夏天都会有30名不同的教师来到圣米迦勒校园。90名教师中的每一位都将致力于调整其学校的课程，以支持他们在暑期学院结束后至少三年向学生教授综合水生生态学内容，并学习学校内部的发展。学校将通过调制解调器和佛蒙特州教育网络远程计算相互连接，并连接到校园，以实现数据共享。重点将放在对从每条河流沿线各点收集的数据以及随后的分析所产生的数据的解释上。河流项目学校收集的数据将与地方、州和联邦机构共享。这项建议适合于教师提升，因为它是为了培养带头教师团队，他们将与同事合作，通过一个综合的当地河流科学项目，向中学生提供跨学科的科学。它还与国家科学基金会授予的佛蒙特州全州系统倡议基金的倡议相吻合，该基金旨在教授综合科学、数学和技术。非NSF费用分摊约为NSF要求的金额的22%。

9353347 Hessler This project will provide an intensive 3-week inservice, residential summer institute for Vermont middle level and ninth and tenth grade teachers. The content focus is on activity-based aquatic ecology as a vehicle for developing and teaching a model of integrative mathematics, science and technology to teachers and students. Thirty different teachers will come to the Saint Michael's campus each summer for three summers beginning in 1994. Each of the 90 teaches will commit to restructuring curricula in their schools to support their teaching of integrated aquatic ecology content to their students for at least three years following their Summer Institute and to learn development within their schools. Schools will be linked by modem and Vermont Ed-Net telecomputing to one another and to the campus, for data-sharing. Emphasis will be on the interpretation of data generated by collecting from points along each river and subsequent analyses. Data collected by Rivers Project schools will be shared with local, state and federal agencies. This proposal is appropriate for teacher enhancement because it is designed to prepare teams of Leader Teachers who will work with colleagues to being interdisciplinary science to middle school students through an integrative local rivers science project. It also meshes will with the initiatives of the Vermont Statewide Systemic Initiatives grant from NSF which is designed to teach integrative science, math, and technology. Non-NSF cost-sharing is approximately 22% of the amount requested from NSF.