How to use $20,000 to improve math/science?
Jane Jackson (jane.jackson@asu.edu <jane.jackson@asu.edu>)
Tue, 5 Mar 1996 14:53:03 +0000
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TEECH "LEAVING A LEGACY: Sustaining a Project After the Funding Ends"
Sent by: jane.jackson@asu.edu <jane.jackson@asu.edu> (Jane Jackson)
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Colleagues,
A question for you.
First, a preface: a high school physics teacher from Nashville who is
participating in our 3-year Leadership Modeling Workshop series has been
invited to serve on a brainstorming task force for a local nonprofit
educational foundation that forges relationships between schools and
business.
The foundation has a new corporate sponsor that wants to fund a program to
improve science and math education, probably in grades 5 - 12. I just
talked with the foundation officer, who said that the new program will most
likely be to provide science materials, through competitive grant proposals
from teachers.
My response to her was that our experience shows that teacher training
would probably have much larger effects, that materials go unused or are
poorly used, particularly up through grade 8. I suggested that teacher
training would likely be a much better use of the money (which is about
$20,000, apparently). What do you think of this?
Her question, which I pose to you, was, "How do we get effective teacher
training in math and science with $20,000?"
I told her that I'll talk with her again on Thursday and give her any
suggestions. So, fire away, please, on either or both of these questions!
Cheers,
Jane
Jane Jackson (Prof. of Physics, Scottsdale Comm. College--on leave)
Dept.of Physics, Box 871504, Arizona State Univ.,Tempe AZ 85287-1504.
jane.jackson@asu.edu <jane.jackson@asu.edu> PHONE: (602)965-8438. FAX: (602)965-7331.