Joint South-Central and North-Central Sections, both conducting their 41st Annual Meeting (11–13 April 2007)
Paper No. 12-6
Presentation Time: 1:40 PM-5:00 PM

IMPROVING EARTH SCIENCE COMPETENCIES THROUGH TEACHER-SCIENTIST COLLABORATION

SPENCER, Charles G., Biology and Earth Science, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO 64093, spencer@ucmo.edu and ODOM, A. Louis, Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110

One approach to enhancing K12 teacher competency and student performance in science involves programs in which practicing scientists or university faculty model methods of inquiry for participants. Geologic aspects of evolution were addressed using this approach in a teacher professional development program for 6th–8th grade science teachers. Lessons developed during the workshop were implemented in classrooms. Assessments indicated increased comprehension for both participant teachers and their students.

Joint South-Central and North-Central Sections, both conducting their 41st Annual Meeting (11–13 April 2007)
General Information for this Meeting
Session No. 12
Issues in Geoscience Education (Posters)
Kansas Union, University of Kansas: Ballroom
1:40 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, 11 April 2007

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 3, p. 13
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