Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Rooms A & B
Start Date
27-4-1995 2:00 PM
End Date
27-4-1995 4:00 PM
Description
The Summer Teacher Enhancement Program (STEP) was developed to bring up to 40 local area teachers to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to inform them of activities at KSC and encourage the use of this information in the school curricula. During the second week of the four week STEP, a workshop on NASA-KSC Life Sciences was implemented. The purpose of this effort was to: develop a workshop curriculum and; evaluate the effectiveness of the STEP workshop in informing and educating the participants about NASA Space Life Sciences research and concerns.
Teacher workshops have been used with varying degrees of success. Results of both positive and no effects have been found by various investigators. A bibliography of select research articles on the effectiveness of teacher workshops is included as Appendix I.
Paper Session III-C - Implementation of a NASA Life Science Teachers Workshop as Part of the Summer Teacher Enhancement Program
Holiday Inn, Manatee Rooms A & B
The Summer Teacher Enhancement Program (STEP) was developed to bring up to 40 local area teachers to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to inform them of activities at KSC and encourage the use of this information in the school curricula. During the second week of the four week STEP, a workshop on NASA-KSC Life Sciences was implemented. The purpose of this effort was to: develop a workshop curriculum and; evaluate the effectiveness of the STEP workshop in informing and educating the participants about NASA Space Life Sciences research and concerns.
Teacher workshops have been used with varying degrees of success. Results of both positive and no effects have been found by various investigators. A bibliography of select research articles on the effectiveness of teacher workshops is included as Appendix I.
Comments
Education, Space for Tomorrow
Session Chairman: William E. Lavinghousez, Associate Director of Education and Technology at the Center for Space Education
Session Organizer: Vickie Neal