Science Fellows Supporting Teachers in the Classroom

这个NSF GK-12研究员项目涉及17名4-6年级教师，17名NSF研究生和本科生内容和技术资源研究员，以及俄亥俄州州立大学（OSU）科学，工程，药学和数学教授的合作。这项合作是适应和实施科学和数学调查，在4-6年级的教室64,000名学生的城市学区在哥伦布，俄亥俄州。探究调查支持学校的课程和国家标准中的探究策略，俄亥俄州基于能力的科学计划模型，以及科学素养的基准。该项目包括几个关键组成部分：a）四人教师-同伴小组，每个小组改编12小时的探究调查，用于当地课程的特殊部分。B）在对学生使用之前，其他教师和研究员作为学生参加每周3小时的教师-研究员课程。教师和研究员提供反馈，用于修改调查。 c）修订后，所有教师在研究员的协助下在4-6年级的课堂上使用探究调查。 每年的重点是一个特定的年级，并对前几年所涉班级进行后续访问。此外，教师同事团队生产的工具包，可供教师在整个俄亥俄州的课堂上使用。通过为其他哥伦布4-6年级教师和为整个俄亥俄州教师提供讲习班的俄勒冈州立大学推广代理人领导的教师小组夏季讲习班，促进了这些工具包的传播。

This NSF GK-12 Fellow Project involves a collaboration of 17 grade 4-6 teachers, 17 NSF graduate and undergraduate content and technology resource fellows, and Ohio State University (OSU) science, engineering, pharmacy and math professors. The collaboration is adapting and implementing scientific and math investigations in grade 4-6 classrooms of the 64,000 student urban school district in Columbus, OH. The inquiry investigations support the curriculum of the schools and the inquiry strategies in the National Standards, the Ohio Model Competency-Based Science Program, and the Benchmarks in Science Literacy.The project involves several key components: a) Four-person teacher-fellow teams each adapt 12 hours of inquiry investigations for use in special parts of the local curriculum. b) Before their use with students, other teachers and fellows participate as students in using the investigations during weekly 3-hour teacher-fellow classes. The teachers and fellows provide feedback that is used to modify the investigations. c) After revision, all of the teachers assisted by fellows use the inquiry investigations in their grade 4-6 classrooms. Each year, the focus is on one particular grade level, with follow-up visits to classes involved during previous years. In addition, the teacher-fellow teams produce kits that can be used by teachers in classes throughout Ohio. The dissemination of these kits is facilitated through summer workshops led by fellow-teacher teams for other Columbus grade 4-6 teachers and for OSU Extension Agents who offer workshops for teachers throughout Ohio.