Design of a Hands-on Biology Course for Elementary School Teachers in Training

小行星9354488 一些科学教育研究和报告已经确定了小学动手科学的必要性。 然而，由于小学教师缺乏适当的科学培训，这类课程的实施往往受到限制。 小学教师接受的大部分正规科学教育来自传统的基于事实的大学讲座课程或非常结构化的实验室课程。由于教师倾向于以他们被教导的方式教学，我们认为，改善全国科学教育的关键是改变未来教师被教导科学的方式。对于小学教师来说，要有效地教授动手探究的课程，他们必须通过动手探究的方法学习科学。 这项建议旨在为受训教师开办职前实习科学课程。该课程将与教育学院的同事和从地区学校选出的小学教师合作开发。我们认为，这样的伙伴关系是必不可少的设计一门课程，未来的教师都可以成功，并得到兴奋。该课程将使用生物学的例子来教授生物学，化学和物理学的内容，但将通过启发式方法的“引导发现”来传达内容。 本课程希望能作为科学教学的模式，让学生在未来的课堂上应用。此外，该课程的一个组成部分旨在向学生介绍一系列用于小学科学教学的实践材料。

9354488 Hood A need for hands-on science in elementary schools has been identified by a number science education studies and reports. However, implementation of such curricula is often limited by the lack of appropriate science training of elementary school teachers. Most of the formal science education received by an elementary school teacher comes from traditional fact-based university lecture courses or very structured laboratory courses. As teachers tend to teach the way they were taught, we posit that the key to improving science education nationally is to change the way prospective teachers are taught science. For elementary school teachers to effectively teach a hands-on, inquiry-based curricula, they must learn science via a hands-on inquiry-based approach. This proposal seeks to develop a pre-service hands-on science course for teachers in training. The course will be developed in collaboration with colleagues in the college of education and master elementary teachers selected from area schools. We feel such a partnership is essential to design a course which prospective teachers can both succeed in and get excited about. The course will use biological examples to teach content from biology, chemistry and physics but will convey content via a "guided discovery" of heuristic approach. The course hopes to serve as model of science teaching which students in the course may apply in their future classrooms. In addition, a component of the course is designed to introduce students to a range of hands-on materials for use in teaching elementary school science.