Enhancing the Capacity of Math and Science Teachers -- A Conference to be Held in Washington, DC, Spring 2004

这笔赠款支持由来自史蒂文斯理工学院的8至10所小型学院和大学的选定教职员工和管理人员参加的计划会议。会议的重点将是更有效地利用互联网对K-12科学教师进行职前培训。独立学院理事会(CIC)寻求加强K-12教师将技术解决方案融入他们的数学和科学课堂的能力。这一倡议将增强独立学院和大学的大学教师教育项目的能力，以塑造未来数学和科学教师的教育。CIC和史蒂文斯理工学院将利用各自在培养未来和现有教师方面的优势来开发这一项目。CIC的成员学院和大学在美国培养了大量的职业科学家和科学教师。史蒂文斯理工学院将社区大学作为其合作伙伴，为在职K-12教师组织培训课程及其科学前活动。他们发现，规模较小的四年制大学的教职员工在教师培训活动中尤其有效。在这种成功关系的基础上，史蒂文斯和CIC希望创建一个全国性的项目，从大约10所在培养K-12科学教师方面有良好记录的小型学院和大学开始。

The grant supports a planning conference with selected faculty and administrators from eight to ten small colleges and universities with staff from Stevens Institute of Technology. The conference would focus on more effective use of the Internet in pre-service training of K-12 science teachers. The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) seeks to strengthen the abilities of K-12 teachers to incorporate technological solutions in their math and science classrooms. This initiative would enhance the capacity of collegiate teacher education programs in independent colleges and universities to shape the education of prospective math and science teachers. The CIC and Stevens Institute of Technology will draw on their respective strengths in educating prospective and current teachers in developing this program. The CIC's member colleges and universities train a significant number of career scientists and science teachers in the United States. Stevens Institute of Technology turned to community colleges as its partners in organizing their own training sessions for in-service K-12 teachers and its pre-science activities. They found faculty members at small, four-year colleges were especially effective in their teacher-training activities. Based on this successful relationship, Stevens and the CIC want to create a national program beginning with approximately ten small colleges and universities with strong records in the preparation of K-12 science teachers.