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posted by:
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Ben Sayler
on May 17, 2003
at 0:25AM
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subject:
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Teacher Prep
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Susan,
I agree that there could (and should) be more impact on teacher prep
programs. Nonetheless, I think there's great potential here. At my
university, for example, we introduce every pre-service teacher to
inquiry-based science units (like FOSS) through sessions taught by
staff from our LSC. Also, the ten districts closest to our university
(spanning over 10,000 square miles) are involved in our LSC, so when
preservice teachers have field experiences, they're virtually
guaranteed to be in project schools. Finally, the impact on our science
faculty (as opposed to science ed faculty) is beneficial to the
pre-service teachers (as well as other undergrads) in that it affects
the way they teach their content courses. These are slow changes, but
I'll reiterate, they don't really cost much to continue beyond the
funding of the LSC.
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