The Role of Scientists in the Professional Development of Science Teachers

Contents

• SUMMARY

• 1--INTRODUCTION
  • Charge
  • The Committee's Methods
  • Inservice and Professional Development
  • Issues in Professional Development
  • Professional Development and Science-Education Reform
  • Individual and Systemic Programs
  • Using Educational Research

• 2 -- CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

• 3 -- A GUIDE FOR SCIENTISTS
  • Getting Started
  • Contributing Most Effectively
  • Types of Professional-Development Programs
  • Recommendations

• 4 -- ADMINISTRATORS' AND OTHERS' RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ENCOURAGING SCIENTISTS' PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
  • Internal Rewards
  • External Rewards
  • Professional-Society Recognition
  • Recommendations

• 5 -- STRATEGIES FOR ATTRACTING TEACHERS TO AND INVOLVING THEM IN PROFESSIONAL-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
  • How to Attract Teachers
  • How to Involve Teachers in Planning and Developing Programs
  • Practical Considerations
  • Enlisting the Support of Administrators
  • Recommendations

• 6 -- SYSTEMIC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SCIENCE-EDUCATION REFORM
  • The Past as Prologue
  • Systemic Change
  • Professional Development as a Component of Systemic Reform
  • Focusing on Elementary Schools for Systemic Change
  • Recommendations

• 7 -- EVALUATION OF PROFESSIONAL-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
  • Forms of Program Evaluation
  • Evaluators
  • Evaluation Tools
  • Funding and Administrative Issues
  • Recommendations

• 8 -- A VISION OF THE FUTURE
  • A Future Teacher
  • A Future Classroom
  • A Future Scientist
  • Preparing Future Teachers

• REFERENCES

• APPENDIXES
  • A -- Professional-Development Programs that Responded to the Committee's Request for Information, Organized by Geographic Location
  • A-1 -- Professional-Development Programs, Organized by Grade
  • A-2 -- Professional-Development Programs, Organized by Subject Matter
  • B -- Committee's Methods
  • C -- Glossary
  • D -- Suggested Reading List
  • E -- University Statements of Policy Regarding Recognition of Faculty Contributions to Professional-Development Programs
  • F -- Organizations that Support Activities in Science and Mathematics Education
  • G -- An NSTA Position Statement on Science Teacher Professionalism
  • H-1 -- Example of an Inquiry-Based Laboratory Exercise
  • H-2 -- Example of a Traditional Laboratory Exercise
  • I -- Funding of Professional Development

• INDEX

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