Program
Components
Professional
Development Fellowship
Local
Outreach
Teams
Local
Site Teams
Curriculum
Development Fellowship
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Frontiers in Physiology
is a program of the American Physiological Society (APS), and is sponsored by
APS, the National Center for
Research Resources (NCRR),
Science Education Partnership Awards
(SEPA Grant #RR15251),
and the
National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK Grant #DK 39306)
at the National
Institutes of Health. The
American Association for the
Advancement of Science and
Wiley Publishers also generously donate
materials for teachers in the program each year.
Frontiers in Physiology
has four
main goals and objectives:
- Develop, evaluate, refine, and disseminate a model and materials for
integrating inquiry, equity, and technology into the middle/high
school science classroom and into professional development programs;
- Build ongoing working relationships between research scientist and
middle/high school teachers through research and in-service experiences
and online communications;
- Promote the adoption of national standards for K-12 content and
pedagogy --especially inquiry, equity, and technology use -- by middle
and high school science teachers through ongoing in-service activities
developed collaboratively by teachers and researchers; and
- Increase teachers' skills in developing, assessing, and utilizing
web-based curricular materials and resources, especially in
integrating online resources into inquiry-based teaching.
Fulfillment of these goals is accomplished through
three program
components:
In each component, teachers and physiologists work collaboratively to
improve science education at middle and high school levels.
Information
for the 2007 Research Teachers
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