Teacher Retention and Renewal through Visualization and Immersive Technologies in Rural Education

该项目的目标是通过专业发展机构为两批农村教师提供为期42个月的留住和更新教师的支持。第一批骨干教师将由56名教师组成，其中28名来自北卡罗来纳州，28名来自伊利诺伊州，在每个州组成7个小组。第二支队伍将由来自北卡罗来纳州和伊利诺伊州的104名初中和高中数学和科学教师组成，这两个州各有52名教师。因此，每个干部中有13支来自北卡罗来纳州的球队和13支来自伊利诺伊州的球队。举办以下工作坊及研习会：2002-2005年暑期研习会；秋季研讨会，2004-2005；2003-2006年春季工作坊。该项目涉及振兴农村社区的四个相互关联的要素：1)建立和维持一个通过指导计划支持新手教师的大师教师社区；2)提供资源和培训，培养教师对可视化技术和内容专业知识的使用，为学生的学习创造教学上合理的概念模型；3)通过使用可视化技术来加强基于标准的课程，以鼓励学生参与；4)发展一个可持续的、可扩展的模式，继续帮助教师成为有效的领导者和变革的推动者。

The goal of this project is to support teacher retention and renewal through professional development institutes for two cohorts of rural teachers over 42 months. The first cadre will consist of 56 teachers, 28 from North Carolina and 28 from Illinois, constituting 7 teams in each state. The second cadre will consist of 104 middle and high school mathematics and science teachers from North Carolina and Illinois, 52 from each of the two states. Thus there are 13 teams from North Carolina and 13 teams from Illinois in each cadre. The following workshops and institutes will be conducted: Summer Institutes 2002-2005; Fall Workshops, 2004-2005; and Spring Workshops, 2003-2006.The project addresses four interrelated elements for the revitalization of rural communities: 1) building and sustaining a community of master teachers who support novice teachers through mentoring programs; 2) providing resources and training to develop teachers' use of visualization technologies and content expertise to create pedagogically sound conceptual models for student learning; 3) enhancing standards-based curricula through the use of visualization technologies to encourage student engagement; and 4) developing a sustainable and scalable model that continues to assist teachers to become effective leaders and agents of change.