教师教育
Join the 麦考尔户外科学学校 for engaging professional development experiences designed to build your scientific literacy, connect you to colleagues and expose you to leading edge research.
This summer we are offering a Professional Development Workshop for High School Science Teachers addressing the science of climate change at the 麦考尔户外科学学校. This workshop will be co-instructed by Dr. 塔拉Hudiburg, professor at the University of Idaho in Forest, 牧场, 火科学和科里·理查兹, graduate student in the 自然资源学院 and Society.
The focus of this workshop is to help practicing science teachers build a deeper understanding of climate change in relation to terrestrial 生态系统, specifically forest-climate interactions. We will relate the curriculum directly to issues prevalent in the Northwest forests, 比如干旱, 火, 杀死甲虫, all of which impact the ability of forests to sequester carbon.
好处: This course can be taken for one PD credit or for hours in the state of Washington. The NSF is sponsoring the cost of the credit, room and board, and a 500美元的津贴 来车间的钱付了一半, and half paid after implementing the Citizen Science program at your school.)
要求: Teachers are expected to bring data collection activities back to their classrooms and
provide data to strengthen climate prediction models.
日期: 2017年6月20 - 22日全天. Arrival on the evening of June 19 by 5 PM. Departure on the evening of June 23 by 5 PM.
地点: 麦考尔户外科学学校, University of Idaho Field Campus, McCall, Idaho.
应用: 请给Kori Richards发邮件 rich0169@vandals.ycdwkj666.com. She can answer any questions and then send you registration information.
培养未来的科学家
教师 and graduate students talk about the teaching experience at MOSS.
教师教育项目
职前的程序
The 麦考尔户外科学学校 partners with the University of Idaho's College of Education, 健康 and Human Sciences (EHHS) to offer a unique experience for pre-service teachers and MOSS graduate students. Undergraduates in the College of Education, 健康 and Human Sciences pursuing their Education and Teaching Certificate come to MOSS for a one week immersion in outdoor teaching. EHHS students come to MOSS toward the end of their teacher training curriculum at the beginning of either the fall or spring semester. They participate in the MOSS program both as a learner and a teacher, creating a rich and unique experience that will diversify and add to their teacher training.
在白天, education students head out into the field with MOSS graduate student instructors to learn about the geology, 生态系统, 水生态, 能源系统, and local plant and animal adaptations of Ponderosa State Park. They learn about the outdoor science topics and team building games that are used with the MOSS curriculum. As EHHS students are learning about teaching outdoor science to their future students, they are also participating in a conversation about teaching with the MOSS graduate students. This learning experience is mutually beneficial as they share ideas, content, and brainstorm new methods for teaching students.
这些引文来自教育学院, 健康 and Human Sciences students demonstrate the positive impact this partnership provides:
"MOSS is what every educational experience should be, but isn’t. At MOSS you are immersed in the ultimate science lab, our natural world. I found I learned while on the way to learning, simply because when in such an environment one can’t help but wonder."
"My experience at MOSS showed me how place based education can really inspire students and get them thinking and questioning on their own. Growing up I never really looked forward to my STEM based classes but after going to MOSS and seeing how easy it is for me to integrate STEM into my classroom and get students excited and engaged, I feel much more confident that I will be able to break the stereotype of boring science and math classes and get my students outside and into the community and really seeing how STEM affects our daily lives and how fun it can be exploring new places, 提出问题, 用技术做实验, 成为真正的科学家. I think that my new passion for place based and inquiry based education will benefit my students greatly!"