A Center for Teacher Enhancement Coordinated with District-Wide Reform

9453935该项目旨在促进全区范围的变革，在至少14个学区的小学实行动手探究式科学教学。将得到支持的模式建立在加州理工学院学前科学倡议(CAPSI)的经验基础上，该倡议与加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳、夏威夷毛伊岛和加利福尼亚州科内霍山谷的学区合作。该模式的主要特点是初步创建了一所完全转型的试点学校，体现了教师的全面支持，包括科学材料、持续的专业发展以及与辅导资源教师的频繁大学互动。整个变革努力的关键是校区与来自大学、学院、行业或社区的执业科学家和工程师的合作伙伴关系。在这个项目中，CAPSI将与加利福尼亚州的14个城市学区合作，带来类似的变化。加州理工学院和帕萨迪纳大学的总费用分摊将是NSF奖励部分的10%。***

9453935 Pine This project is designed to promote district-wide change to hands- on inquiry science teaching in the elementary schools of at least fourteen school districts. The model to be supported builds on the experience of the Caltech Precollege Science Initiative (CAPSI), in collaboration with school districts in Pasadena, California, Maui, Hawaii, and Conejo Valley, California. The main features of the model are the initial creation of a fully transformed pilot school, that embodies total teacher support, including science materials, ongoing professional development, and frequent collegial interaction with a mentoring resource teacher. Critical to the entire change effort is the partnership of the school district with practicing scientists and engineers from a university, college, industry, or the community. During this project CAPSI would work with fourteen urban school districts in California to bring about similar change. The total cost sharing of just Caltech and Pasadena will be 10 percent of the NSF portion of the award. ***