The Kansas Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (KCETP)

在全国范围内，研究型大学准备本科生作为K-12科学和数学教师来短缺。教育专业的学生通过不协调的课程，往往无法连接他们的数学和科学课程和他们的教师准备课程。通常，教师准备计划并没有确定谁可以成为强大的科学和数学教师的学生。最后，许多职业生涯早期的数学和科学教师没有得到他们需要的支持，留在他们的职业生涯和成长。堪萨斯卓越教师准备合作组织（KCETP）试图扭转这种模式，并提出了一项计划，在数学和科学领域创建一个连贯的教师准备计划，该计划不与该州任何其他计划或机构重复。在NSF的支持下，这个为期三年的第一轨道CETP项目将1）创建KCETP学院，通过大学，两年制学院和学区之间的支持合作，提供改革后的教师准备计划; 2）制定和实施少数民族学生的招聘和保留计划; 3）修改科学，数学，工程和技术（SMET）内容课程，以模拟教学法的最佳做法; 4）让教育学生参与SMET研究; 5）指导早期职业K-12教师。KCETP由堪萨斯大学（KU）和堪萨斯州立大学（KSU）领导，包括四个两年制学院和十个主要学区，沿着70号州际公路120英里的走廊。其拟议的计划符合国家数学和科学教育标准。它将促进一项全州范围的战略，该战略可以作为数学和科学教师准备改革的全国模式。KCETP计划将与KU和KSU的NSF和教育部项目协调，以支持专业发展和K-12课程创新。

Nationwide, research universities that prepare undergraduates as K-12 science and mathematics teachers come up short. Education majors are routed through uncoordinated courses that often fail to link their mathematics and science courses and their teacher preparation courses. Frequently, teacher preparation programs do not identify students who could become strong science and mathematics teachers. Finally, many early-career mathematics and science teachers don't get the support they need to stay with and grow in their careers. The Kansas Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (KCETP) seeks to reverse this pattern and proposes a plan to create a coherent teacher preparation program in mathematics and science that is not duplicated with any other program or agency in the state. With NSF support, this three-year Track 1 CETP project will 1) create the KCETP Academy to deliver a reformed teacher preparation program by supportive collaborations between Universities, Two-year Colleges, and School Districts; 2) develop and implement a plan for the recruitment and retention of minority students; 3) modify Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) content courses to model best practices in pedagogy; 4) involve education students in SMET research; and 5) mentor early-career K-12 teachers. KCETP is led by the University of Kansas (KU) and Kansas State University (KSU) and includes four Two-year Colleges and ten major School Districts along a 120-mile corridor of Interstate 70. Its proposed program is aligned with the national mathematics and science education standards. It will promote a statewide strategy that can be used as a national model for the reform of mathematics and science teacher preparation. KCETP programs will be coordinated with NSF and Department of Education projects at KU and KSU that support professional development and K-12 curriculum innovation.