The Exploratorium Digital Teaching Box Project: A Professional Development Tool S

Exploratorium数字教学盒项目：专业开发工具S

• 批准号: 8496436
• 负责人: Kristina R Yu
• 金额: $ 25.95万
• 依托单位: EXPLORATORIUM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8496436
• 关键词: Address; Apple; Biological Sciences; Biology; Biomedical Research; Books; Boxing; California; Case Study; Collaborations; Collection; Communities; Development; Economically Deprived Population; Education and Outreach; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Electronics; Enrollment; Ensure; Funding; Health; Image; Institutes; Interview; K-12 Education; Knowledge; Learning; Link; Measurable; Mentors; Microscope; Museums; N.I.H. Research Support; Outcome; Process; Production; Readiness; Recruitment Activity; Research; Resources; Sampling; Science; Scientist; Students; Tablets; Teacher Professional Development; Testing; Text; Textbooks; Time; Translating; Work; base; career; design; digital; experience; high school; improved; innovation; interest; junior high school; meetings; next generation; programs; public health relevance; research and development; skills; social organization; teacher; tool; tool development; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The emerging Next Generation Science Standards will challenge teachers to approach their practice in a new way--engaging students in core concepts, but also the processes of science, and embracing crosscutting themes. To prepare teachers for this transition, the Exploratorium Teacher Institute, assisted by NIH- supported research scientists, will offer innovative professional development to 455 biology teachers of grades 6-12 that will enable them to create Digital Teaching Boxes--topic-specific, tablet-based, digital activity collections--customized for their classrooms. Scientists will work directly with teachers in constructing the teaching boxes, providing images from their labs and information about their research, thus linking classroom biology to ongoing biomedical research. At the same time, the scientists will learn how to translate their research for the new, standards-based classroom. Using Apple's iBooks Author, the teachers will be able to assemble their own collection of microscope images and time-lapse videos, science activities, interviews of scientists, text, hands-on classroom activities, and other resources to teach a complete science unit. The Exploratorium will offer teachers its exceptional collection of high-quality images (from its SEPA-funded Microscope Imaging Station), science activities, teaching tips, and other material from more than 25 years of work with teachers. In addition, the Exploratorium and the research scientists will collaborate with teachers to create new digital assets (microscope images, activities, interviews, classroom activities) that teachers decide will best help them address the new standards. In the final year of the project, the Teacher Institute will offer free webinars about the project-ne version designed for teachers and one for professional developers. They will publicize the webinars nationally through teacher organizations and social media. All digital assets and sample toolboxes created by teachers will be available to educators free on a project website. Six to eight case studies of collaborations between teachers and scientists will highlight how to best work together to address the standards, and what produces the most effective digital teaching boxes for use by teachers in the classroom. Teachers will be recruited from the large pool of Teacher Institute alumni in Northern California, and at least 60 percent will be teachers of underserved students. Classroom experience in life science, informed by the new science standards, is most likely to inspire and prepare underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students to pursue biomedical careers, but teachers need support to make this transition.

描述（由申请人提供）：新兴的下一代科学标准将挑战教师以新的方式进行实践——让学生参与核心概念和科学过程，并拥抱交叉主题。为了让教师为这一转变做好准备，Exploratorium 教师学院在 NIH 支持的研究科学家的协助下，将为 455 名 6-12 年级的生物教师提供创新的专业发展，使他们能够创建数字教学盒——特定主题的平板电脑基于的数字活动集合——为他们的课堂定制。科学家将直接与教师合作构建教学盒，提供实验室图像和研究信息，从而将课堂生物学与正在进行的生物医学研究联系起来。与此同时，科学家们将学习如何将他们的研究成果转化为基于标准的新课堂。 使用 Apple 的 iBooks Author，教师将能够收集自己的显微镜图像和延时视频、科学活动、科学家访谈、文本、课堂实践活动以及其他资源，以教授完整的科学单元。 Exploratorium 将为教师提供优质图像（来自 SEPA 资助的显微镜成像站）、科学活动、教学技巧以及来自超过 25 年与教师合作的其他材料的特殊收藏。此外，探索馆和研究科学家将与教师合作创建新的数字资产（显微镜图像、活动、访谈、课堂活动），教师认为这些资产最能帮助他们满足新标准。 在该项目的最后一年，教师协会将提供有关专为教师和专业开发人员设计的项目版本的免费网络研讨会。他们将通过教师组织和社交媒体在全国范围内宣传网络研讨会。教师创建的所有数字资产和示例工具箱将在项目网站上免费提供给教育工作者。教师和科学家之间合作的六到八个案例研究将重点介绍如何最好地合作来满足标准，以及如何生产出供教师在课堂上使用的最有效的数字教学盒。 教师将从北加州大量师范学院校友中招募，其中至少 60% 是服务不足的学生的教师。在新的科学标准的指导下，生命科学的课堂体验最有可能激发和准备代表性不足和经济弱势的学生追求生物医学职业，但教师需要支持来实现这一转变。