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University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Award Year:
1999
(last updated: 2002-11-14 16:12:38.0 )
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Program Director:
Ms. Katherine Nielsen
Academic Coordinator
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Science & Health Education Partnership, Biochemistry Department
Box 0905
San Francisco, CA 94143-0905
4155025137
kmn@sep.ucsf.edu
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The Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) of the University of California, San Francisco, in collaboration with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), proposes "Bridges." Through the Bridges initiative, SEP seeks to pioneer a teacher professional development program with supporting cross-cutting activities that will contribute to the strong scaffold of science reform efforts in SFUSD. The proposed 4-year project will include both an annual summer institue at UCSF and academic year components focused at school sites. The population to be served by the project includes roughly 125 elementary and middle school teachers and their more than 7000 students.
The programmatic goals of Bridges are as follows:
1) increase teachers' content knowledge of the life sciences;
2) increase teachers' understanding of processes and methods involved in scientific inquiry;
3) facilitate communication around content standards and curriculum between elementary and middle school science teachers;
4) provide teachers with support in standards-based teaching methods and theory;
5) enhance teachers capacity to implements standards-based instruction; and
6) establish school-based reflective learning communities.
The attainment of these goals will result in the development of a cadre of teachers who are skilled in the classroom implementation of science content and instruction standards; and in the development of a reflective learning community of teachers that bridges the elementary-middle school transition. One unique feature of Bridges will be the opportunity for teachers from different grade levels (grade 3-7) to communicate intensively about their curriculum and teaching methods and to biomedical science research environment as a context in which teachers will investigate the science content standards and the nature of scientific inquiry.
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