The Maury Project is a graduate-level, teacher professional development program designed to promote the scientific literacy of young people by improving the background of in-service precollege teachers on the physical foundations of oceanography. This is accomplished through a process of training the trainers at a two-week workshop held at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) and subsequently via singletopic modules that Maury peer trainers present in sessions throughout the United States. By increasing the scientific knowledge of teachers, the Maury Project is ultimately directed toward attracting precollege students, including underrepresented minorities, to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) studies. This is in close alignment with the ONR STEM2Stern commitment to "nurture a world-class [STEM] workforce able to contribute to, and support, a culture of innovation." OBJECTIVES This project was designed to meet the following objectives: (a) Train master teachers to be peer trainers and resource persons on the physical foundations of selected oceanographic topics and/or issues. (b) Develop self-contained, single-topic, teacher-enhancement instructional modules on selected oceanographic topics. (c) Develop and maintain a national network of Maury peer trainers and resource persons. (d) Supply Maury peer trainers with instructional resource materials to use in the 1-to 2-hour training sessions they conduct. (e) Promote the adaptation of instructional resource materials on the physical foundations of oceanography for classroom use by the Maury teachers and those teachers they peer-train. (f) Provide leadership training for Maury alumni who serve as DataStreme Ocean and Earth's Climate System course Local Implementation Team (LIT) leaders.
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