Collaborative Research: Strengthening Pathways to Diversity through Professional Development for Minority-Serving K-12 Science Educators-Expanding GeoFORCE Texas

合作研究：通过为少数族裔服务的 K-12 科学教育工作者的专业发展加强多元化之路 - 扩大 GeoFORCE Texas

• 批准号: 1105737
• 负责人: Eleanour Snow
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1105737&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Strengthening; Pathways; Diversity

The project will expand The Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin (JSG) efforts in educational outreach to the K-12 community by providing high quality geoscience professional development to 8th to 12th grade minority and minority-serving science teachers and teacher mentors throughout Texas. The overarching project goals are to (1) develop a rigorous geoscience professional development program for minority and minority-serving teachers for a new Texas high-school level capstone Earth and Space Science course that can serve as model for other states; (2) ensure that all teacher participants attain the basic foundation for the new capstone course, helping this course to remain a viable option for core credit to satisfy the fourth science; and (3) support teachers from the JSG GeoFORCE program's network of educators in southwest Texas who receive this professional development to implement improved Earth science instruction in their own classrooms. Professional development will be provided through several activities, including:1) Professional Development Academies (PDA's), with The Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science Teaching (TRC), to train 70 teacher mentors each semester, who will in turn bring the training to 25 teachers at each of the 35 Regional Collaboratives. Eight different PDA's of 70 teachers each.2) Summer Institutes for 25 highly motivated TRC teacher mentors. These institutes will comprise two 2-week sessions. They will train the teacher mentors to train other teachers to implement the new Earth and Space Science course in Texas high schools. Two 2-year institutes of 25 students each.3) GeoFORCE Education Academies. Similar to the summer institute, these academies are designed to help teachers from SW Texas who are part of the GeoFORCE network to implement the new Texas Earth and Space Science course. Rather than bring these teachers to Austin, training will be brought to them in the form of 8 professional development workshops. Two 8-unit academies will serve 25 participants each.4) On-Line Learning Communities, designed to keep the teachers in contact with facilitators and fellow teachers between and after training, and to share best practices, and new information.The project will directly impact 140 TRC teacher mentors (2 cohorts of 35 TRC teacher teams representing each of the 35 Regional Collaboratives, or 70 teacher mentors, over 4 years = 140 teacher mentors) and 50 GeoFORCE southwest Texas teachers (2 cohorts of 25 teachers over 4 years = 50 teachers). Each two-person TRC teacher-mentor team is expected to reach 25 additional teachers each year, for a total of 3,500 additional TRC teachers directly impacted by the project.

该项目将在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（JSG）的杰克逊地球科学院（Jackson Geosciences）向K-12社区的教育宣传努力扩展，通过将高质量的地球科学专业发展提供至8至12年级的少数民族和少数族裔科学教师和德克萨斯州的教师导师。总体项目目标是（1）为少数族裔和少数民族服务教师制定严格的地球科学专业发展计划，为新的德克萨斯州高中高中地球地球和太空科学课程，该课程可以作为其他州的典范； （2）确保所有教师参与者都获得了新的Capstone课程的基本基础，从而帮助本课程保持了可行的核心信用选择，以满足第四科学； （3）支持JSG Geoforce计划的教师在得克萨斯州西南部的教育工作者网络，他们接受了这一专业发展，以在自己的教室中实施改进的地球科学教学。 将通过多项活动提供专业发展，包括：1）专业发展学院（PDA）以及德克萨斯州科学教学卓越的区域合作组织（TRC），每学期培训70名教师导师，反过来又将在35个区域合作伙伴中为25位教师带来培训。八个不同的PDA每个70名教师。2）25位具有积极进取的TRC教师导师的夏季学院。这些机构将包括两个2周的课程。他们将训练教师导师培训其他教师，以在德克萨斯州高中实施新的地球和太空科学课程。每个25名学生的2年研究机构。3）地理教育学院。与夏季学院类似，这些学院旨在帮助来自德克萨斯州西南部的教师，这些教师是Geoforce Network的一部分，以实施新的德克萨斯地球和太空科学课程。与其将这些老师带到奥斯丁，不如将培训以8个专业发展研讨会的形式进行。 Two 8-unit academies will serve 25 participants each.4) On-Line Learning Communities, designed to keep the teachers in contact with facilitators and fellow teachers between and after training, and to share best practices, and new information.The project will directly impact 140 TRC teacher mentors (2 cohorts of 35 TRC teacher teams representing each of the 35 Regional Collaboratives, or 70 teacher mentors, over 4 years = 140 teacher mentors) and 50 GeoFORCE西南德克萨斯州的教师（4年中有25名教师组成的25名教师= 50名教师）。预计每个两人的TRC教师团队每年将获得另外25名教师，总共有3500名TRC教师直接受到该项目的影响。