Teacher Helping Teachers Teach Science Inquiry: The "Just ASK" Project

“教师帮助教师教授科学探究：‘Just ASK’项目”开发和评估新一代适应性科学工具包（ASK）资源和远程交付策略。该项目的目标是在农村科学教师中建立实践社区，使用基于网络的资源，允许实时连接音频和视频，并开展研究，检查这些实践社区对学校计划、教学实践和学生成绩的影响。该项目开发和测试教师对自由/开源软件、见解和STS课程的改编，使其更适合农村学校的学生。该项目还开发和测试了基于网络的远程教育策略，使参与的教师之间以及与专业发展专家之间的视频、音频和印刷互动成为可能，教师与教师之间也可以通过网络交换教案和其他教学材料。目标受众是位于爱荷华州和密苏里州的九所农村学校的小学教师，小学六年级。该项目的产品将是一套经过审查的改编科学工具包课程，以及针对自由/开源软件、见解和STS工具包的课堂视频，这些课程将发布在网上，供教师轻松访问；形成一个基于网络的实践社区，该社区由“照亮现场”门户网站提供便利，在该门户网站上可以访问和发布ASK活动和课堂视频，教师可以与ASK专家教师互动，并最终与全国其他教师互动；以及在9个实地测试学区中，探讨ASK实践社区对学区计划、教师课堂实践和学生成绩的影响的实证证据。

"Teachers Helping Teachers Teach Science Inquiry: The 'Just ASK' Project" develops and evaluates a new generation of adapted science kit (ASK) resources and distance delivery strategies. The goals of the project are to form communities of practice among rural science teachers using web-based resources that allow audio and video connections in real time and to conduct research that examines the impact of these communities of practice on school programs, teaching practices, and student achievement. The project develops and tests teacher adaptations of FOSS, Insights, and STS lessons to make them more appropriate for students in rural schools. The project also develops and tests web-based distance education strategies that enable video, audio, and print interactions among participating teachers and with professional development specialists as well as teacher-to-teacher exchange of lesson plans and other instructional materials over the web. The target audience is elementary teachers, grades K6, in nine rural schools located in Iowa and Missouri. The products of the project will be a vetted set of Adapting Science Kits lessons and accompanying classroom videos specific to FOSS, Insights, and STS kits to be posted on the web and easily accessible by teachers; the formation of a web-based community of practice facilitated by an Elluminate Live portal where ASK activities and classroom videos can be accessed and posted and where teachers can interact with expert ASK teachers and, eventually, with other teachers nation wide; and empirical evidence addressing the impact of ASK communities of practice on school district programs, teachers' classroom practices and student achievement in nine field test school districts.