Teaching Science Teachers about Masters of Disaster in Socioeconomically and Climatologically Vulnerable Counties of Georgia

在佐治亚州社会经济和气候脆弱县向科学教师教授灾难大师课程

基本信息

批准号：
1034853
负责人：
Alan Stewart
金额：
$ 14.96万
依托单位：
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2010-09-15 至 2014-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1034853&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Teaching Science Teachers about Masters

项目摘要

This project seeks to strengthen K-8 geoscience education in the state of Georgia through the use of an innovative but underutilized weather science and safety curriculum, the Red Cross Masters of Disaster (MoD) curriculum. The principal investigators are conducting a series of week-long professional development workshops in the summer of 2011 and 2012 for approximately thirty (30) science teachers in each of three selected county groups (Bibb, Brantley/Glynn, and Calhoun) of Georgia that are socio-economically and climatologically vulnerable to severe and extreme weather conditions. The workshops focus on teaching teachers about the Red Cross MoD weather science and safety curriculum for K-8 students. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the workshops will determine impact on teacher learning, and eventually on what students learn, how much they learn, and what knowledge they take home with them when teachers deliver the MoD curriculum after attending the workshop. Smaller scale versions of these workshops, offered for the past two years at the University of Georgia with support by a Teacher Quality grant, have indicated that these workshops have much promise in increasing science teacher's weather and climate literacy. It is expected that this project will provide useful data on the effectiveness of the MoD curriculum to increase students' knowledge of weather science and safety and to promote a culture of weather safety in students and their families.

该项目旨在通过使用创新但未充分利用的天气科学和安全课程，即红十字会灾难硕士 (MoD) 课程，加强佐治亚州的 K-8 地球科学教育。主要研究人员正在 2011 年和 2012 年夏季为佐治亚州三个选定县组（比伯县、布兰特利/格林县和卡尔霍恩县）各约三十 (30) 名科学教师举办一系列为期一周的专业发展讲习班，这三个县分别是：在社会经济和气候方面容易受到恶劣和极端天气条件的影响。讲习班的重点是向教师讲授红十字会国防部为 K-8 学生提供的天气科学和安全课程。对研讨会有效性的评估将决定对教师学习的影响，并最终决定学生学到什么、学到多少，以及当教师在参加研讨会后讲授 MoD 课程时他们带回家的知识。佐治亚大学过去两年在教师质量补助金的支持下举办了这些研讨会的小规模版本，表明这些研讨会在提高科学教师的天气和气候素养方面大有希望。预计该项目将提供关于国防部课程有效性的有用数据，以增加学生的天气科学和安全知识，并在学生及其家庭中促进天气安全文化。