GK-12 NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education

该基金每年为10名研究生和10名高级本科理科生提供奖学金和培训，为期三年。这些学生通过一个教学学徒计划为K-12科学教育提供资源，该计划利用了UAB/公立学校合作基础设施、新麦克文科学中心的设施和七个非常成功的K-12科学推广计划。研究员从生物、化学、物理和基础健康科学系的新生和现有研究生（200多名学生）中招募，重点是来自代表性不足的群体的学生。研究员将接受《国家科学教育标准》所倡导的学习理论和教学法方面的培训，以及研究员作为学徒参加的具体外展项目。其中包括四个正在进行的外展项目，向K-12学生提供科学设备和课程，以及三个面向K-12科学教师的专业发展项目。一门新的动手分子生物学课程正在公立学校开发和实施。研究生提供科学内容方面的专业知识，参与教学、课程开发、实践科学指导，并与K-12教师和学生一起指导活动。

This grant provides fellowships and training for 10 graduate and 10 advanced undergraduate science students per year for three years. These students are serving as resources in K-12 science education through a teaching apprenticeship program that utilizes the UAB/public school partnership infrastructure, the facilities of the new McWane Science Center, and seven highly successful K-12 science outreach programs. Fellows are recruited from the entering and current graduate student pool (200+ students) in the biology, chemistry, physics, and basic health sciences departments, with an emphasis on students from underrepresented populations. Fellows are receiving training in learning theory and pedagogy, as advocated by the National Science Education Standards, and the specific outreach programs in which the fellows serve as apprentices. These include four ongoing outreach programs that deliver science equipment and curricula to K-12 students and three professional development programs for K-12 science teachers. A new hands-on molecular biology course is being developed and implemented in the public schools. Graduate fellows are providing expertise in science content and participating in the teaching, curriculum development, hands-on science instruction, and mentoring activities with K-12 teachers and students.