Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) II

地球系统科学教育联盟(ESSEA)正在支持高校为职前、初中和高中教师进行教师准备和专业发展。该计划建立并扩展了成功的ESSEA计划，该计划最初由NASA资助，并由全球环境战略研究所(IGES)在2000-2005年间实施。政府间地球科学研究小组正在加强这一基础，并在此基础上再接再厉：1)以ESSEA在线课程为范本，介绍新升级的地球系统科学本科生和研究生课程；2)广泛使用数据、模型和现有的地球系统教育材料来支持教师课程；3)通过年度会议、持续支持以及在地球科学和教育会议上的发言，传播示范教学做法和方案的成功；以及4)将参与机构的数目从17个扩大到40个。IGES团队通过以下方式为参与的学院和大学提供持续的支持：建设它们的能力，为全国受众提供卓越的教师准备和专业发展；为它们提供评估工具，以确保经过培训的教师对地球系统科学内容以及如何有效地教授这些内容有深刻的理解；并协助它们创建能够支持这一特殊计划的基础设施。ESSEA计划的一个显著特点是向大学教师以及职前、初中和高中教师介绍一种积极的、以学生为中心的教学模式。ESSEA课程解决了教师在地球科学内容、技术、教育资源和新教学方法方面的需求。这是通过让教师沉浸在一个知识构建社区中来实现的，在这个社区中，他们进行研究，学习新内容，让他们的思维接触批判性分析，并发展新的活动。将利用对项目活动的评估来证明ESSEA模式在教师培训和专业发展方面的有效性及其在更多机构成功推广、制度化和持续的潜力。

The Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) is supporting colleges and universities in teacher preparation and professional development for pre-service, middle and high school teachers. This program builds and expands on the successful ESSEA program that was originally funded by NASA and implemented by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) from 2000-2005. The IGES team is enhancing and building on this foundation by: 1) Using the ESSEA online courses as a model to introduce newly upgraded Earth system science undergraduate and graduate courses; 2) Introducing extensive use of data, models and existing Earth system educational materials to support the teacher courses; 3) Disseminating model teaching practices and program success through annual conferences, continuing support, and presentations at geoscience and education conferences; and 4) Expanding the number of participating institutions from 17 to 40. The IGES team provides ongoing support to participating colleges and universities through: building their capacity to deliver exceptional teacher preparation and professional development to a national audience; providing them with evaluation tools to ensure that trained teachers have a strong understanding of Earth system science content and how to effectively teach it; and assisting them in creating an infrastructure capable of sustaining this exceptional program. A salient feature of the ESSEA program is to introduce an active, student-centered teaching model to both university faculty and to pre-service, middle, and high school teachers. The ESSEA courses address teachers' needs in the areas of geoscience content, technology, educational resources, and new teaching methods. This is accomplished by immersing teachers in a knowledge-building community in which they conduct research, learn new content, expose their thinking to critical analysis, and develop new activities. Evaluation of project activities will be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ESSEA model for teacher training and professional development and its potential to be successfully scaled up, institutionalized, and sustained at a larger number of institutions.