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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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Bridges, a collaboration of the Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), is an intensive professional development program for elementary and middle school teachers designed to deepen their understanding of science content, investigation skills, standards, and pedagogy; support them in translating these deepened understandings and skills into their own classroom practice; and foster critical reflection around their own teaching practice within a community of peers. Bridges is named to reflect its focus on making connections between scientific investigations and concept development, between professional development and classroom teaching, and between elementary and middle school teachers, standards, and curriculum. Goals, objectives and design elements are: Objectives & Program Design Elements
1. To increase teachers' science content knowledge, science investigation skills, and understanding of standards-based teaching methods and curricula, through the development of the Chemistry of Life, a graduate-level summer content course; the refinement of the existing Architecture of Life, a course on basic biological structures and functions; and, the development of Special Topics in Science, a series of investigative science enrichment seminars for alumni of the Architecture of Life and Chemistry of Life courses.
2. To enhance the impact of professional development experiences on the classroom practice of teachers and the science learning experiences of students via the evolution of the Scientist-Teacher Action Team (STAT) program, a classroom-based teacher-scientist partnership, and the enhancement of the Daly Ralston Resource Center, a lending library of curricular materials.
3. To expand the professional community and increase communication and collaboration among teachers within and across school sites and grade levels through the creation of cross-grade level and cross-school Reflective Teaching Groups, and the continuation of the piloted UCSF SEP Annual Partnership Conference, a forum for elementary, middle, and high school teachers to share their work in science education.
It is anticipated that, over the course of the four-year effort, 200 teachers will participate both in Bridges courses, and in a combination of STAT, Special Topics in Science, a Reflective Teaching Group, and/or the UCSF SEP Partnership Conference. It is anticipated that approximately 75% of participants will be elementary school teachers and 25% will be middle school teachers who will collectively reach approximately 8,750 students. In addition, through the STAT program, approximately 2,400 elementary and middle school students will have direct contact with 80 scientists.
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