Goals of the FIRST Project

The specific goals of the FIRST project are to:

a. Use field stations as the foci to build and maintain coalitions of faculty who will implement and sustain reform in undergraduate biology education at the field station and in their colleges and universities.

b. Prepare teams at field stations to become regional professional developers of biology faculty, including new faculty and post-doctoral students.

c. Enable the field station teams and associated faculty to gain experience in inquiry-based science teaching and learning through workshops that model this kind of science teaching.

d. Enhance faculty's ability to provide all students opportunities to gain scientific understanding through direct experience with methods, and proceses of inquiry, in the field and in undergraduate science courses.

e. Facilitate collaboration and communication among faculty about their reforms in biology teaching using electronic media. Web resources for undergraduate biology education

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