NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education

这个GK-12项目的主要目标是加强中学生、教师和GK-12学生在数学、科学和工程（MSE）方面的学习；提高MSE员工的多样性；培养一批科学家和工程师，他们将准备好、愿意并能够在下个世纪不断提高K-12教育的质量。PRIME是西雅图地区五个学区的合作项目；三个NSF本地系统倡议；以及15个数学、科学和工程院系、教育学院的教员和西雅图华盛顿大学的4个多元化项目。PRIME的概念重点是在具有不同学生和教师群体的中学环境中进行基于探究的MSE教育。在22,585名可能受到PRIME影响的中学生中，近五分之一（19%）是非裔美国人、美洲原住民或西班牙裔。一个暑期学习科学研究所准备PRIME研究员与MSE的中学教师和学生建立伙伴关系。该研究所专注于中学的学习和教学，评估实践，课堂教学和多样性。该研究所准备研究员从事与课堂教师持续的伙伴关系。研究员提供他们的专业知识，以增加课堂学习的机会，同时也发展了对教学法和多样性的更多理解。这些伙伴关系的重点是改编和本地化示范教材。PRIME研究这些持续的伙伴关系，并通过每年的教师区域展示会传播其努力的成果。

The major goals of this GK-12 project, Partnership for Research in Inquiry-based MSE Education (PRIME), are to enhance learning among middle school students, teachers, and GK-12 Fellows in math, science, and engineering (MSE); enhance the diversity of the MSE workforce; and develop a cadre of scientists and engineers who will enter the workforce ready, willing, and able to continuously improve the quality of K-12 education in the next century. PRIME is a partnership among five Seattle-area school districts; three NSF Local Systemic Initiatives; and fifteen academic departments in mathematics, science, and engineering, faculty in the College of Education and four diversity programs at the University of Washington in Seattle. PRIME's conceptual focus is inquiry-based MSE education in middle school settings with diverse student and teacher populations. Of 22,585 middle school students potentially affected by PRIME, nearly one-fifth (19%) are African American, Native American, or Hispanic. A summer learning sciences institute prepares PRIME Fellows to engage in partnerships with middle school teachers and students in MSE. This institute focuses on middle school learning and teaching, assessment practices, classroom instruction, and diversity. The institute prepares the Fellows to engage in sustained partnerships with classroom teachers. Fellows provide their disciplinary expertise to enhance classroom learning opportunities while also developing an increased understanding of pedagogy and diversity. The partnerships focus their efforts on the adaptation and localization of exemplary curricular materials. PRIME studies these sustained partnerships and disseminates the products of their efforts through annual regional showcases for teachers.