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Illinois Chickscope

Illinois Chickscope. A Professional Development Program for K-12 Teachers Project Director: Chip Bruce. What is Chickscope?.

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Illinois Chickscope

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  1. Illinois Chickscope A Professional Development Program for K-12 Teachers Project Director: Chip Bruce

  2. What is Chickscope? • Study chicken embryo development using a variety of educational resources, such as interactive modules on egg mathematics, image processing, and remotely-controlled magnetic resonance imaging • Developed by educators and researchers from several UIUC departments in collaboration with inservice and preservice teachers • Inquiry-based units created by collaborating teachers are at http://inquiry.uiuc.edu • Overview for parents and teachers at http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/about/overview/

  3. Participants A community of K-12 students, university students, teachers, parents, scientists – • 1996 Project Mayday: 10 classrooms from K through 12 • 1997 Science Education: 57 preservice teachers • 1998 Illinois Chickscope: 32 K-12 teachers from 15 schools • 1999 Illinois Chickscope: 24 K-12 teachers from 10 schools; EIU faculty; graduate students; preservice teachers

  4. ILCS objectives Illinois Chickscope project objectives include: • To demonstrate what is required to scale up a successful local project to a larger community. • To build collaborations between teachers, preservice teachers, and scientists in order to promote and facilitate scientific investigations using the Internet. • To test the information infrastructure by providing a diverse range of classrooms with access to the interactive MRI database. • To assess the effectiveness of Illinois Chickscope in motivating and preparing teachers for incorporating inquiry-based learning and teaching in science and mathematics classrooms.

  5. ILCS inservice schedule ILCS teachers attend 11 inservice days, each including interactive discussions, hands-on, and computer- based activities related to chick embryology and MR imaging. • Spring: learn about Chickscope • Summer: focus on developing instructional materials for use in their classrooms • Fall: introduce the project to new preservice teachers

  6. Summer Inservice Schedule Illinois Chickscope schedule for the summer inservice: • 8:00 AM : (Collaborators Arrive) • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM : (Theme Discussions) • 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM : (Work Time) • Lunch • 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM : (Work Time)

  7. Themes How do we build a community for inquiry learning? • How do we get students to engage in inquiry? • How do we ensure that all students are involved in inquiry activities? • How do teachers link to other teachers and student teachers to facilitate inquiry learning and teaching? • What are the roles for scientists in supporting inquiry in the classroom? • How can teachers study their own inquiry practice and share what they learn with others?

  8. Evidence for Learning in the Inquiry Classroom • Generation of questions • Transfer to other situations • Vocabulary in use • Carrying out scholarly projects • Physical artifacts; drawings; writing • Enjoyment; self-direction; initiation • Video of activities; engagement • Parental involvement • Taking responsibility • Discipline • Multiple realizations of Chickscope

  9. Why Illinois Chickscope? • The first Chickscope project was successful in immersing students and teachers in a small scientific community • Students and teachers learned much about how to collect and analyze data, how to ask questions, and how to communicate their findings with others (Bruce, et al., 1997) • Followup: A professional development program for K-12 teachers during 1998, 1999 (Bruce and Thakkar, 1997; Potter, 1997)

  10. Illinois Chickscope(http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/facstaff/chip/Projects/Chickscope/ccc.html) • A community of teachers and scientists promoting an integrated understanding in science and mathematics, and teaching in new ways using the Internet • ILCS participants include elementary school, middle-school, and high school teachers from 15 schools in counties around Champaign-Urbana • Introduce Chickscope to preservice teachers in the fall of 1997

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