Agriculture's Role in K-12 Education Proceedings of a Forum on the National Science Education Standards (1998) / Chapter Skim
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3 Scientist and Teacher Partnerships
3 Scientist and Teacher Partnerships
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PIONEERS IN SCIENTIST-TEACHER PARTNERSHIPS Michael Klentschy Superintendent, El Centro School District, El Centro, California Michael Klentschy described his partnering experiences in his former district of Pasadena, California an urban area where 85 percent of about 22,000 schoolchildren come from the two lowest census-track income categories. "Though at the beginning it wasn't one of my highest priorities for action, science education reform became one when two faculty members from California Institute of Technology came and visited me in my office.
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For some reason we had some trouble placing Dean in a life sciences laboratory so we placed him in an unlikely spot, with a physicist, Tony Hansen, in the atmospheric aerosol research group. Tony was the inventor of an instrument capable of measuring graphitic carbon aerosol (soot)
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The report generated considerable interest from scientists in other Eastern European countries. As a result of the conference, the nation of Estonia, formerly a part of the Soviet Union, created a national network in 12 high schools using the Slovenia model, with financial support from the Soros Foundation.
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The National Science Education Standards describe, inquiry as "a step beyond science as a process, in which students develop skills, such as observation, inference, and experimentation. The new vision presented by the National Science Education Standards includes the processes of science and requires that students combine processes and scientific knowledge as they use scientific reasoning and critical thinking to develop their understanding of science." An inquiry-based process enables the student to learn how to design and interpret an investigation and communicate scientific ideas.
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Judith Williams, a teacher in Central City, Nebraska, indicated that she depends on electronic access to bulletin boards such as Genentech's Access Excellence for her high-school biology program. Society representatives suggested that societies could create WorldWideWeb home pages as a mechanism to communicate their K-12 educational activities.
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For example, Michael Klentschy expects that the irrigated agricultural lands in his new school district of E1 Centro, California will provide a backdrop for numerous inquiry-based activities. Forum participants identified potential educational resources for teachers in rural areas: · Land grant universities and colleges; · U.S.
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Department of Defense bases; and · Agricultural input suppliers. DEVELOPING CURRICULUM MATERIALS The National Science Education Standards provides criteria about the science content that should be used to guide the curriculum-development process.
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"We can put out the most wonderful curriculum materials in the world, but when the classroom door closes, teachers do pretty much what they feel most comfortable doing," admitted Michael Klentschy. Judith Williams stated, "When it comes down to who makes the decision about what will be taught in my school it's me.
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"These are collaborative efforts between classroom teachers who are using them and the content scientists who help provide perspective on the larger ideas. Teacher involvement becomes even more important as we link these units together all the way through to the end of eighth grade." Participants suggested that societies should seek new collaborative arrangements with teachers, scientists outside of their discipline, and other professional societies.
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