Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 13:29:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Deborah Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu>
To: IFI listservs <advanced1@exploratorium.edu>, intro1@exploratorium.edu,
Subject: Re: Visualizing Growth (fwd)
See the message below about school/museum collaborations.
Thanks,
Deb
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Deborah Hunt
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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 14:32:47 -0400
From: "Jennings, Gretchen" <gmj.apa@EMAIL.APA.ORG>
Reply-To: "ISEN- Assoc. of Science-Technology Centers"
<ISEN-ASTC-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
To: ISEN-ASTC-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject: Re: Visualizing Growth
This series of programs looks very interesting for a couple of reasons.
As someone who does alot of work with teachers I would like to see a
museum/school collaboration at work. Will this series be on PBS around
the country, and how could we find out about it?
A second reason I'm interested is that the topic of museum school
partnerships for systemic reform came up at the recent Journal of Museum
Education Editorial Advisers meeting at AAM. As the new Editor in
Chief of the Journal I'm on the lookout for possible issue topics. Since
there appear to be quite a few museum/school collaborations going on all
over the country involving both science and art museums, it would seem to
be a natural for a future issue of the Journal..
So if folks reading this message know of museum school collaborations,
and/or think this would be a good topic for a Journal issue, I would like
to hear from you at the email address below. thanks,
Peter, I've been trying to email you at the address given in this message
with no success. Can you contact me at gmj.apa@email. apa.org? thanks,
Gretchen Jennings, Director, Psychology Exhibition, American
Psychological Assoc, Washington, DC.
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Follows********************************************
Attention Museum-School Fans. Sally Middlebrooks suggested that I might
want
to comment on Karen Leichtweis's announcement of the upcoming broadcast
distribution of our Annenberg/CPB funded series called "Visualizing
Growth:
Changing the Way We Teach Science" - a nine part video series that
documents
museum curators and teachers working together to improve the quality of
elementary science teaching in the Buffalo Public Schools. We did the
series
with Channel 17 here in an effort to capture what happens when elementary
teachers spend time in the field and in the laboratory with working
scientists. The experience was part of our NSF-funded "teacher
enhancement"
effort called Project TEAM - Teacher Education at the Museum. The work
with
curators was a smash hit with teachers, and the videos try to convey the
quality of that experience and the impact it had on their teaching and
their
feelings about science. The last show, called "Building a Better
Learning
Community," covers many of dimensions of "systemic reform" and would be a
good introduction for school people considering a collaboration with
their
local museum, nature center, zoo, etc. As for the other shows, they each
focus on one area of the museum's expertise: botany, invertebrates,
ornithology, rocks and fossils, archaeology, astronomy, and even some
physical science -- i.e. simple machines. There is also a show about a
school that developed a science garden with the help of the Museum. I
especially like the botany video -- Planting the Seeds for Teacher Growth
-- as it focuses on teacher mentoring. The insect show is especially good on the role of the curator, featuring entomologist Wayne Gall leading a night insect collecting expedition. The videos to not pretend to be models of exemplary practice, but they convey a nice feeling for a group of teachers working together to improve their science teaching using the resources of a local natural history museum. We also put together a "facillitators guide" that includes discussions questions and explanatory background material. I would love to here some frank reactions from others about the value of this series. Peter Dow (PDow27.aol.com).*********End of Original Message********************************************