Institute for Science and Technology

这个为期48个月的项目为290名K-12年级在职教师和40名职前教师提供为期5周的培训。该项目的目标是为改善科学教育提供教学和哲学基础，制定提高学生科学学习的策略，并开发一个显著改进的交付系统，以鼓励创造力，解决问题的能力，批判性思维和沟通。该项目有四个活动。第一个是科学技术研究所。通过这些暑期学院，教师们需要两年的时间来接受全面培训，并将技术融入课程。第二个是印第安纳波利斯动物园和礼来研究公司等地提供的实习和指导项目。第三个组成部分是“驻校教师”，他每年都会被选中参与这个项目。最后，普渡大学还有一个由当地资助的补充职前工作。50名教师在第一年从INSITE项目中选出。他们在两个夏天接受为期5周的培训。这包括科学方面的正式培训、工作经验、研究经验、互联网和电信方面的培训等。其中几名教师将被挑选出来，作为后续小组的培训师，每个小组有80名教师。参与者最初来自印第安纳州。成本分担为30%。

9454331 Rush Eagle-Union Community School Corporation Institute for Science and Technology This 48 month project provides five-week institutes for 290 inservice and 40 preservice teachers of grades K-12. The goals of the project are to provide pedagogical and philosophical foundations for improving science education, develop strategies for increasing student learning of science, and develop a significantly improved delivery system to encourage creativity, problem solving, critical thinking, and communications. The project has four activities. The first is the Institute for Science and Technology. Through these summer institutes, teachers take two years to get fully trained and integrate technology into the curriculum. The second is the internships and mentorship program offered at places like the Indianapolis Zoo and Lilly Research. A third component is the "Teacher in Residence" who is selected each year to work with the project. Finally, there is a complementary preservice component with Purdue University that is funded locally. Fifty teachers are selected in the first year form Project INSITE. They receive 5 weeks of training over the two summers. This includes formal training in science, work experience, research experience, training on the Internet and telecommunications, etc. Several of these teachers will be selected to help as trainers for subsequent groups each of eighty teachers. Participants are initially from Indiana. Cost sharing is 30%.