Strengthening High School Chemistry Education Through Teacher Outreach Programs A Workshop Summary to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable (2009) / Chapter Skim
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4 Initiatives by Federal Agencies
4 Initiatives by Federal Agencies
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Though assessing the effectiveness of educational activities remains challenging, programs can make progress by relying on standardized instruments and by teaming with evaluation experts. Many federal agencies have programs directed toward K- THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: 12 education that affect chemistry education either directly PARTNERSHIPS FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION or indirectly.
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Also, SEPA projects generally have city schools, and because the projects are for K-12 students, to target state and local standards that are in place, so they the teachers reached by the program include elementary not only augment the curriculum but in some cases can and middle school as well as high school teachers. "Most of replace it.
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The largest five broad goals: increasing content knowledge, improving such program is the Math and Science Partnership program, pedagogical skills, enabling teachers to engage all students, which fosters collaborations between STEM faculty in colenhancing their conceptual understanding, and helping them leges and universities and K-12 school districts. Teacher retain understanding.
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A recent inventory of these grants 0 showed that their educational components fall into a number Mentor/Tutor/Train Activities/Camps Experiences for Lab work for Student Workshop Visits/Demos Development Workshop Teacher Curri./Mod. Students of discrete categories: teacher workshops, research experi Research Teachers Class Special ences for teachers, student workshops, laboratory experiences for students, providing help for science fair projects, judging science fairs, classroom visits or demonstrations, mentoring and training teachers and students, tours of labs, FIGURE 4.1 An estimated comparison of NSF outreach activities working with science museums, science camps, and cur- conducted in July 2006, shows that the Division of Chemistry New 4-1 riculum and module development.
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It requires a three-year commitment from the teacher and is Dilks also stated that DOE is seeking to develop an evaluhoused at a DOE laboratory. It is a residential program where ation that would measure changes in student understanding the teacher lives at a laboratory for four to eight weeks, with that result from its programs.
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The program promotes durable Prival of NSF stated that some of the foundation's evalurelationships, facilitates transfer of activities to classrooms, ations are done that way, with a common set of data being teaches environmental research skills, pairs teachers with collected from major programs. Individual projects also can properties, and engages students in authentic research.
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