The Role of Scientists in the Professional Development of Science Teachers by Committee on Biology Teacher Inservice Programs

Author:Committee on Biology Teacher Inservice Programs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education: Math and Science Education
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 1996-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

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20. Adventures in Science

Adams District Twelve-Five Star Schools

Contact: Nancy Kellogg, Northglenn, (303) 894-2144, FAX: n/a,

Internet: n/a

Adventures in Science was an inservice program that offered a menu of professional-development opportunities for teachers from September to May. Through presentations by exemplary scientists and teachers, workshops on content and pedagogy, and networking, teachers learned about cutting-edge scientific research and broadened their repertoire of hands-on activities for the classroom. The program, which reached hundreds of K-12 teachers in a 4-year period, was funded by Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education State Grant funds and a small registration fee paid by the teachers. The program is no longer active.

**21. Colorado College-Integrated Sciences Teacher Enhancement Program

Colorado College

Contact: Paul Kuerbis, Colorado Springs, (719) 389-6726, FAX: (719) 634-4180,

Internet: [email protected]

The purpose of the Colorado College-Integrated Sciences Teacher Enhancement Program (CC-ISTEP) is to initiate and establish long-term collaboration among Colorado College scientists, mathematicians, science and mathematics educators and local and regional science and mathematics educators. CC-ISTEP will result in theme- or issue-based summer institutes through which teacher-participants (middle level) will improve their science-content understanding and instructional skills and will result in long-term changes in participants’ teaching behavior through sound implementation efforts. CC-ISTEP builds on, refines, expands, and institutionalizes CO-STEP, the Colorado Science Teacher Enhancement Program, by putting into practice a graduate-degree program, the Master of Arts in Teaching Integrated Natural Sciences (MAT-INS).

22. Keystone Science School Teacher Institutes

Keystone Science School

Contact: Chris Minor, Keystone, (970) 468-5824, FAX: (970) 468-7769,

Internet: [email protected]

The Keystone Science School (KSS) provides residential field science programs for teachers and their students throughout the school year, using the Central Rocky Mountain ecosystems as an outdoor classroom. Specializing in field programs that augment and enhance the National and Colorado State Science

Standards, these programs are a one-of-a-kind hands-on experience for students and teachers. Additionally, KSS offers nationally renowned summer teacher-training programs for middle- and high-school teachers. Key Issues, a 1-week program, provides a framework for investigating an environmental issue with students at the middle-school level. Keys to Science is a 2-week program for high-school biology teachers in cellular and molecular biology. Both teacher programs provide resource liaisons and on-line followup, connecting teachers—locally, regionally, and nationally—to one another, other educators, and the world.

23. Project Learn

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Contact: Carol McLaren, Boulder, (303) 497-1172, FAX: (303) 497-8610,

Internet: [email protected]

Project Learn provides 55 middle- and junior-high-school science teachers with experiential training at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Through three consecutive summers, workshops at NCAR are on atmospheric dynamics, ozone, and cycles of the earth and atmosphere and their impact on climate change. The program aims to improve the participants’ understanding of atmospheric sciences, related mathematics- and science-teaching methods, and laboratory work. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the workshops bring in teachers from eight school districts in California, Colorado, North Carolina, and Texas. The project targets teachers of students from ethnic and minority groups who have been traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.

24. Hughes/NIH Research for Teachers

College of Natural Sciences, Colorado State University

Contact: C.W. Miller, Fort Collins, (970) 491-7842, FAX: (970) 491-7569,

Internet: cmiller@vines.

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