Creating and Sustaining Diversity in the Geo-Sciences Among Students and Teachers in the Urban and Coastal Environment of New York City

在纽约市城市和沿海环境中的学生和教师中创造和维持地球科学的多样性

• 批准号: 1108281
• 负责人: Reginald Blake
• 金额: $ 18.62万
• 依托单位: CUNY New York City College of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1108281&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Sustaining; Diversity; Geo; Sciences

This project is addressing the shortage of undergraduate and graduate degrees being earned in the geosciences, particularly by members of racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in STEM fields. The New York City College of Technology (City Tech) is simultaneously attacking this problem from two fronts - the undergraduate level and the grade 6-12 level. For City Tech's undergraduates, this project is introducing geoscience knowledge and opportunities to its diverse undergraduate student population through creation of two new courses in the geosciences, which is not currently taught at City Tech, and research experiences. Creation of geoscience articulation agreements with the City College of New York is also creating pathways for students at City Tech to pursue Bachelor's and advanced degrees in the geosciences. For students in grades 6-12, this project is: 1) providing inquiry-oriented geoscience experiences (pedagogical and research) for students; 2) providing standards-based professional development (pedagogical and research) in Earth science for teachers from three separate middle and high schools of the New York City public school system; 3) developing teachers' inquiry-oriented and place-based instructional techniques; 4) assisting teachers with improving their existing curricula to meet the specific needs of their school district; 5) increasing teacher content knowledge and confidence in working with Earth science scholars; 6) improving teacher skills in synthesizing and transforming their knowledge to be used in the classroom; 7) engaging students in the application of geoscience activities through a virtual environment; 8) providing peer-assisted math foundations that will underpin and elucidate geoscience concepts; and, 9) creating community-based geoscience outreach activities. These objectives are being accomplished through geoscience partnerships and activities between City Tech, City College, MS 394 in Brooklyn, City Polytechnic High school, the Urban Assembly Institute of Math & Science for Young Women, NOAA-CREST, the New York City Research Institute program at NASA/GISS Columbia University, and the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The proposed activities combine geoscience research experiences with focused, multidimensional/layered mentoring, and a robust learning community that produce holistic and engaging stimuli for the scientific and academic growth and development of undergraduates and the grades 6-12 student and teacher participants. The diverse students participating in this program and the educational pathways catalyzed through this award will become the future geocientists of our nation. Even those students who choose other careers will greatly benefit both themselves and our society by having a deeper understanding and a broader awareness of the critical nature of the geosciences. The proposed activities are also providing the grade secondary school teachers with new perspectives and skills that can be used to inspire the next generation of geoscience scholars.

该项目正在解决地球科学领域本科和研究生学位短缺的问题，特别是在 STEM 领域代表性不足的种族和族裔群体成员。 纽约城市理工学院 (City Tech) 同时从两个方面解决这个问题 - 本科生水平和 6-12 年级水平。对于城市科技学院的本科生来说，该项目通过开设两门新的地球科学课程（目前城市科技学院尚未教授）和研究经验，向多元化的本科生群体介绍地球科学知识和机会。 与纽约城市学院签订的地球科学衔接协议也为城市理工学院的学生攻读地球科学学士学位和高级学位创造了途径。对于 6-12 年级的学生，该项目是： 1）为学生提供探究型地球科学体验（教学和研究）； 2) 为纽约市公立学校系统三所独立初中和高中的教师提供基于标准的地球科学专业发展（教学和研究）； 3) 发展教师探究导向和因地制宜的教学技巧； 4）协助教师改进现有课程，以满足学区的具体需求； 5）增加教师的内容知识和与地球科学学者合作的信心； 6）提高教师综合和转化知识以在课堂上使用的技能； 7）让学生通过虚拟环境参与地球科学活动的应用； 8）提供同行协助的数学基础，以支持和阐明地球科学概念； 9) 创建基于社区的地球科学推广活动。这些目标正在通过城市科技、城市学院、布鲁克林 MS 394、城市理工高中、城市议会青年女性数学与科学研究所、NOAA-CREST、纽约市研究所计划之间的地球科学合作伙伴关系和活动来实现NASA/GISS 哥伦比亚大学和布鲁克海文国家实验室。拟议的活动将地球科学研究经验与重点突出、多维/分层的指导以及强大的学习社区相结合，为本科生以及 6-12 年级学生和教师参与者的科学和学术成长和发展提供全面且引人入胜的刺激。参与该计划的多元化学生以及通过该奖项推动的教育途径将成为我们国家未来的地球科学家。即使那些选择其他职业的学生也会通过对地球科学的关键性质有更深入的理解和更广泛的认识而使自己和我们的社会受益匪浅。拟议的活动还为中学教师提供了新的视角和技能，可用来激励下一代地球科学学者。