Puerto Rico Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education

波多黎各大学（里约热内卢Piedras校区和Mayaguez校区）与波多黎各教育部（PRDE）合作，提供45名K-12研究员，作为K-12科学和数学教师的专业发展资源，采用建构主义和跨学科的方法，以符合国家标准的关键概念。该项目与波多黎各的全州系统性倡议一致。该计划招募、训练和聘请K-12研究员作为专业发展资源，促进波多黎各科学和数学教师对内容知识的概念性理解。K-12研究员具有以下几种能力：1)作为专业发展资源，在扩大减贫战略指标改革第二阶段的努力中发挥作用，作为大学教员和领导教师团队的一部分，将在2000-2002年期间将另外400所学校（占岛上公共系统1,538所学校的25%）纳入基于标准的改革；2)对200所PR-SSI学校的教师进行跟踪，这些学校在1998年的第二阶段启动了全校为本战略，目前正在完成专业发展计划，需要帮助有效实施标准课程；3)为参与波多黎各卓越教师准备合作项目（PR-CETP）的未来和新教师提供支持和指导，这些教师正在PR-SSI学校进行实习和入职体验；4)与K-12教师合作，为K-12学生树立未来科学家、数学家和工程师的榜样。K-12研究员通过为期一年的计划为这项活动做好准备，该计划包括：(1)为期四天的静修（夏季），(2)全年两次研讨会，(3)每月会议和(4)实地体验。绩效评估与现有的SSI和CETP项目并行。基于研究的评估的主要目的是将来自多个来源的数据转化为有意义的信息，用于推动波多黎各的系统性改革。

The University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras campus and Mayaguez campus) in collaboration with Puerto Rico's Department of Education (PRDE) provides 45 K-12 Fellows as professional development resources for K-12 science and mathematics teachers in a constructivist and interdisciplinary approach to key concepts in alignment with national standards. This project is aligned with Puerto Rico's statewide systemic initiative. This project recruits, trains, and engages K-12 Fellows as professional development resources in the promotion of conceptual understanding of content knowledge for science and mathematics teachers in Puerto Rico. The K-12 Fellows serve in several capacities: 1) as professional development resources in the scaling-up effort of the PRSSI reform-Phase II, as part of the team of university faculty and lead teachers reaching 400 additional schools (25% of the Island's 1,538 schools in the public system) to be inducted into the standards-based reform during 2000-2002; 2) as follow-up to teachers from among the 200 PR-SSI schools that initiated the whole school based strategy during Phase II in 1998, which are currently completing the professional development program and require assistance in the effective implementation of the standards based curriculum; 3) as support to cooperating and mentor teachers in the preparation of future and novice teachers participating in the Puerto Rico Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (PR-CETP) who are carrying out their practicum and induction experience in PR-SSI schools; 4) as co-teachers with K-12 teachers and serving as role models of future scientists, mathematicians and engineers for K-12 students. The K-12 Fellows are prepared for this activity by means of a year-long program consisting of: (1) four-day retreat (summer), (2) two workshops during the year, (3) monthly meetings and (4) Field Experiences. Performance assessment parallels the SSI and CETP programs that are in place. The main purpose of the research-based evaluation is to translate data from multiple sources into meaningful information that is used to drive the systemic reform in Puerto Rico.