Geoscience Education Research to Enhance Effective Professional Development for In-Service Teachers: New Research Opportunities in the San Diego Region

加强在职教师有效专业发展的地球科学教育研究：圣地亚哥地区新的研究机会由于学校对地球科学的需求增加，对职前和在职教师的地球科学专业发展讲习班的需求激增。加州最大的专业发展计划之一是由K-12联盟，一个多机构合作组织运行。 PI和他的研究小组作为内容促进者和研究人员参与该计划，并评估该项目的部分内容，包括对课堂实践的直接影响。 该项目支持将执行其中一些评估活动的学生，使用暴露良好的始新世至更新世序列，研究新的基于实地、调查驱动的单元对沉积岩、沉积环境和随时间变化的影响和有效性。托里松树州立公园的岩石。所有参与者都要接受测试前和测试后的总结性评估，选定的参与者将在实地体验之前和之后接受采访，并跟踪测量实地练习对下一学年课堂实践的影响。

Geoscience Education Research to Enhance Effective Professional Development for In-Service Teachers: New Research Opportunities in the San Diego RegionDue to increased demand for Geosciences in schools, there is a surge in the demand for geoscience professional development workshops for both pre- service and in-service teachers. One of the largest professional development programs in California is run by the K-12 Alliance, a multi-agency collaborative organization. The PI and his research group are participating as content facilitators and researchers in this program and are assessing portions of the project including immediate impacts on classroom practice. This project supports students who will perform some of these assessment activities to conduct research on the impact and effectiveness of a new field-based, inquiry-driven unit on sedimentary rocks, depositional environments and change through time using a well exposed sequence of Eocene through Pleistocene rocks at Torrey Pines State Park. All participants undergo pre- and post-test summative evaluation, and selected participants will be interviewed before and after the field experience, and tracked to measure the impact of the field exercise on classroom practice over the coming school year.