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Program Description

The REVITALISE Program targets teams of middle and high school teachers in rural schools in Illinois and North Carolina to facilitate teachers' use of visual learning in the classroom.

Achievement of the project goals will result in the following measurable outcomes:

  • Participating teachers will deepen their (and their students') conceptual understandings of mathematics and science by becoming proficient in the use of visualization technologies
  • A teacher-generated central repository of contextually relevant visualization modules will be developed
  • Master teachers will learn mentoring strategies using communication and pedagogical technologies
  • Participating teachers will gain leadership skills to share their knowledge with others
  • A community of professional educators will be supported through mentoring, the integration of visualization technologies, and a national communication network
The Program creates a new learning paradigm specific to visualization, inquiry-based learning, and learning experiences relevant to students' lives. Participants learn effective and creative collaboration skills and are given the opportunity to collaborate with other participants in North Carolina and Illinois.

Professional Development Institutes and Workshops

Instructors from North Carolina and Illinois team-teach participants via advanced communication technologies using visualization and immersive tools to create classroom modules with face-to-face and virtual teams.

The Program investigates scalability and the use of future technology to reduce teacher isolation, and enhance retention and renewal. Standards-based curricula are strengthened by incorporating visual learning. Teachers serve as role models for change by integrating this new technology into their curriculum.

During the course of the program, teachers have extensive hands-on opportunities to learn how to develop basic and advanced visualization modules to instruct students on fundamental principles. Modules are created for classroom instruction and shared nationally via the REVITALISE website (see Modules).

Team Formation

Selected applications from teacher teams of middle and/or high school teachers are chosen from rural schools in both states. Team members may be from the same school or from the same school district, as needed to make up the team of at least four members .  If this is not possible, then interested teachers should contact the Project Managers from either state (see Contacts).

Each team should include at least one mathematics teacher, one science teacher, one technology coordinator, and one administrator, placing emphasis on including both novice and veteran teachers.

An administrator may be a school district superintendent, principal, assistant principal, curriculum director, department head, etc.  The technology coordinator/director is not considered an administrator for this project.

Expectations

Team members will work together over the span of two years to develop skills and create curriculum modules for use in their classrooms.  Virtual teams will also form to develop modules or units utilizing computational science methods. The virtual team will consist of two team members from Illinois and two team members from North Carolina working via communications technology.

Each team will develop a plan for dissemination of lessons learned within its school and provide professional development/mentoring to other teachers in its school/region to improve visualization skills among other educators.

Modules that teams develop and use in the classrooms will become a permanent part of the national repository managed by this project.
    Revitalise is made possible in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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