Teacher Enhancement in Support of Higher Standards

9355659 Strassenburg这个为期三年的国家项目将：对中学教师进行国家需求评估，以确定他们在符合新兴国家科学标准的主题上的在职需求；提供与这些主题相一致的教师增强，并衡量该模式在产生当地地区支持和评估当地需求是否足够方面的有效性，以便名册能够可靠地填补以保持包含成本的当地参与。每年，三个地点各有50名教师参加为期四周的夏季讲习班，讲习班由获得总统奖的中学教师、该学科或密切相关学科的研究生和该学科领域的大学科学家组成的指导小组主持。6-9年级的教师将参加研讨会，在研讨会上，教学模式将反映研究表明有效的科学教学。内容和实践活动是从在NSF支持下开发的各种示范资源中绘制的。（大学物理项目，SS&amp；C和TRIAD项目）。如果该项目产生了预期的当地支持，如果当地需求足够大，因此名册的本地填充包含了成本，那么预计该项目将成为NSTA活动的永久特征。

9355659 Strassenburg This national 3-year project will: conduct a national needs assessment of middle school teachers to determine their inservice needs on topics which comply with the emerging national science standards; provide teacher enhancement congruent with those topics and measure this model's effectiveness in generating local district support and assessing whether local demand is sufficient so rosters will fill reliably to maintain local participation which contains the costs. Each year fifty teachers at each of three sites will participate in a four-week summer workshop led by an instructional team of a Presidential Awardee middle school teacher, a graduate student in the discipline or a closely allied discipline and a university scientist in the topic area. The teachers from grades 6-9 will participate in workshop where the pedagogy modeled will reflect what research shows is effective science instruction. Content and hands-on activities are drawn from a variety of exemplary sources which were developed with NSF support. (The University Physics Project, SS&C and from the TRIAD Projects). If the project generates the local support anticipated and if local demand is sufficiently so local filling of the rosters contains the cost, then it's expected that this program will become a permanent feature of NSTA activities.