Implementation Grant for the NIE MOST (Missouri Supporting Teachers) Electronic Support System to Promote Problem-BasedLearning Using a Computational Science Model

拉菲95-54313 项目MOST（密苏里州支持教师）代表了一个财团，已经接受了一个愿景和工作计划，以改善科学和数学的教学和学习。我们建议建立，实施和维持一个基于互联网的支持系统，为教师和学生，因为他们进行基于项目的学习和计算科学。沿着密苏里州已经在进行的改革努力，社会变革管理项目的以下目标使学校能够采用新的工作和学习方式： (1)一个网络基础设施，创建一个教育工作者社区，并利用整个社区的知识和经验，（2）围绕教学实践和挑战设计的电子教师支持系统，采用基于项目的方法和计算科学方法，（3）一个变革推动者联盟，具有统一的愿景和一套共同的工具，以支持教师专业化和学校重组，以及（4）新知识，既能理解新工具和方法所带来的学、教和社区的性质，又能改进和判断工具和方法的价值。 一个支持系统使用现有的技术和基于两位教师在李峰会的创新工作将协助教师，因为他们促进和监测学生的项目，使用新的工具和方法，解决问题，评估学生的成果，并专业发展。支持系统将帮助学生，因为他们通过帮助进行有意义的项目：找到资源和导师，与他人合作，使用新的工具和方法，解决问题，并建立和共享他们的项目组合。该支持系统还促进了兼职教师获得实地经验，来自学校内外的导师谁支持学生的工作，那些谁评估学生的过程和成就，以及研究人员的作用。 随着时间的推移，支持系统将增加丰富的资源，并通过更好的设计过程和更紧密的集成和强大的技术来改善教学和学习的功能。在赠款的第二年，四所新学校将加入MOST项目，并将实施和测试一个区域联盟模式。 社会变革管理计划和由此产生的研究有可能导致教育改革、教师专业发展和学校变革领域的根本性进步。随着项目的发展，将有助于了解如何利用现有技术打破教师和学校的隔离，并为课堂上的从业者提供即时的持续专业支持。这提供了一个基础，从一个专注于计算科学和基于项目的学习在中学一级，在各级其他适当的教育改革计划增长这个模型。它有可能影响目前被孤立在教室里的学生和教师，并将他们转变为不断增长的知识社区的积极成员。

Laffey 95-54313 Project MOST (Missouri Supporting Teachers) represents a consortium that has embraced a vision and plan of work to improve science and math teaching and learning. We propose to build, implement, and sustain an Internet-based support system for teachers and students as they undertake project-based learning and computational science. Along with reform efforts already underway in Missouri, the following objectives of Project MOST enable new ways of working and learning in schools: (1) a network infrastructure that creates a community of educators and leverages knowledge and experience across the community, (2) an electronic teacher support system designed around the practices and challenges of teaching and learning with project-based and computational science approaches, (3) a consortium of change agents with a cohesive vision and a common set of tools for supporting teacher professionalization and school restructuring, and (4) new knowledge both to understand the nature of the learning, teaching and community enabled by new tools and approaches, and to improve, as well as judge the worth, of the tools and approaches. A support system using available technologies and based on the innovative work of two teachers in Lee's Summit will assist teachers as they facilitate and monitor student projects, use new tools and methods, solve problems, assess student outcomes, and develop professionally. The support system will assist students as they undertake meaningful projects by helping: locate resources and mentors, collaborate with others, use new tools and methods, solve problems, and build and share a portfolio of their project. The support system also facilitates the roles of preservice teachers gaining field experience, mentors from in and out of school who support student work, those who assess student processes and achievements, and researchers. Over time the support system will grow in richness of resources and have improved functioning for teaching and learning throu gh better designed processes and more tightly integrated and powerful technologies. In the second year of the grant four new schools will join Project MOST and a model of regional consortia will be implemented and tested. Project MOST and the research that comes out of this undertaking has the potential to lead to fundamental advances in the area of educational reform, professional development of teachers, and school change. As the project develops, contributions will be made to understanding how to utilize existing technology to break down teacher and school isolation and provide immediate ongoing professional support for the practitioner in the classroom. This provides a foundation for growing this model from a focus on computational science and project-based learning at the secondary level to other appropriate educational reform programs at all levels. The potential is there to impact students and teachers who are currently isolated in classrooms, and transform them into active members of a growing intellectual community.