CNAS GOALS 2000 PROGRAM

November 19, 1998--Goals 2000 meeting with Central Methodist College

   The first part of the meeting involved a videoconference with Central Methodist College to discuss possible collaborative activities. Scott Christianson, Larry Perry and Tiger Gordon joined us from there.
    The videoconference started with introductions on both ends. Central Methodist College then described the activities they have been involved in through the state Eisenhower program run by the Coordinating Board for Higher Education (CBHE).
   The project dealt with ways to improve science instruction in physical science for the elementary grades and has been going on for the last few years. They have reached about 400 teachers during that time. Their program consists of two summer workshops – an introductory course (the 1^st summer), which is hands-on activities covering topics in physics, chemistry, astronomy, and meteorology and the 2^nd (during the 2^nd summer), a problem solving workshop where participants are presented with problems and challenged to come up with solutions.
    Copies of the 1^st workshop lab manual are available. Each workshop can have three hours of graduate credit associated with it. During the academic year, a Documentation Project goes on. This allows the teachers to document their use of what they have learned during the summer plus establishing outreach activities through the community. Our activities with inservice teachers were described as well. It looked like there would be areas we could work together on.

Discussion continued as to what kind of collaboration might occur between our groups. Topics included:

	Exchange teaching,
	Gender issues,
	Building confidence,
	Outcome expectancy,
	Team teaching over the I-TV network,
	Interactions between participants,
	Administration & their understanding of science curriculum issues,
	Portfolio assessment, assessment issues in general,
	Parent Science night,
	Awareness of materials, resources, etc.,
	What we can do together over the I-TV network,


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