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Project Vision
The vision of this Panhandle Area Educational Consortium project, Science Collaboration: Immersion, Inquiry and Innovation, Sc-iii, is to improve student academic achievement in science in grades 3-12 in participating school districts.
Project Goals
- Science teachers will experience research at the elbow of a scientist, becoming both scientist and science educator (Gilmer, 2005). This will allow teachers to bring relevant, inquiry science experiences into the classroom-those that afford students opportunities to become and think like scientists, deepen content knowledge, enable them to make meaning of their experiences and express their knowledge in a variety of ways.
- Teachers will be actively engaged in collaborative networks, including those occurring between teacher team and research scientist, teachers and scientists from universities, agencies and industry, and between and among teachers from different grade spans and schools to help students become increasingly literate in science and ultimately make a positive difference in student achievement in science.
- Teachers will effectively implement inquiry experiences in their classrooms so that students will experience the relations, richness, recursion and rigor that are natural and integral aspects of inquiry science.
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