The Schools Around the World project: an attempt to enhance the quality of science teaching

Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 1, Issue 2, Article 3 (Dec., 2000)
CHENG May Hung, May; SO Wing Mui, Winnie; CHEUNG Wing Ming, Francis
The Schools Around the World project: an attempt to enhance the quality of science teaching

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Inducting Teachers to the project
Teachers are first introduced to the project through a teacher development workshop. The workshop includes areas and alternative forms of assessment in science, setting criteria and expectations for student work, and introduction about the protocol for the analysis and collection of student work in the project.

Apart from a face-to-face workshop, the teachers may also participate in an on-line course over a period of 5 weeks. The course is structured to introduce teachers to the workshop through the reading of papers about science assessment, the analysis of student work samples, and the exchange of ideas in the discussion forum with other participants and the facilitators. At present, the on-line course has just completed its pilot run in the United States and is expected to be introduced to teachers in other partner countries/regions.

(http://www.edc.org/CCT/saw2000/course.htm)