Project BEST: Better Education for Science Teachers

BSCS和北亚利桑那大学科学教与学中心正在提议一项为期五年的研究，以确定通过提高高中教师的教学内容知识（PCK）来提高教与学质量的潜力。提案团队将为科学教师设计并提供一个专业发展计划，该计划以教育课程材料的使用为基础，围绕变革性专业发展的要素设计，有目的地和明确地整合努力，提高中学科学教师的内容知识、教学知识和技能，并帮助他们将这些知识应用到自己的课堂环境中。该计划的结果将是关于专业发展计划对教师PCK的影响以及PCK对学生学习的相关影响的基于研究的信息。

BSCS and the Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Northern Arizona University are proposing a five-year research study that determines the potential for improving the quality of teaching and learning by improving high school teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The proposal team will design and deliver a professional development program for science teachers that is based on the use of educative curriculum materials, is designed around the elements of transformative professional development, and purposefully and explicitly integrates efforts to improve secondary science teachers' content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and skill, and helps them to apply this knowledge to the context of their own classroom. The outcome of this program will be research-based information about the influence of the professional development program on teachers' PCK and the related impact of PCK on student learning.