GK-12 Formal Proposal

莱斯大学和休斯顿大学的两个校区将加入休斯顿独立学区，创建一个创新项目，将硕士和新手中学教师与被指定为GK-12研究员的SMET本科生和研究生组成团队。七个四人团队在15个月的研究金期间一起工作，交流教学内容、知识和教学。该计划包括以下主要特点：*通过参与参与大学的教师培训计划，向研究员介绍K-12教育。在与他们的教师队友一起工作了整整一学年后，GK-12研究员在他们团契的最后三个月里担任这些教师提升计划的导师。*团队设计了一个为期两个学期的项目，让参与教师的中学生参与。项目侧重于三个主题之一：课程开发、学习过程或将教育技术整合到K-12科学和数学课程中。*除了在K-12校园的时间外，研究员还参加每周一次的关于大学预科科学和数学教育改革的研讨会。*研究员是中学生的榜样，他们为他们的教师队友提供教学帮助。我们的大学与当地学区密切合作以满足确定的需求的历史悠久。这一计划加强和扩大了参与机构之间业已建立的关系，为K-12教师提供了一个特殊的专业发展机会，为他们的学生提供了丰富的科学和数学指导，同时为研究生和本科生在未来的职业生涯中支持K-12教育做好了准备。

Rice University and two University of Houston campuses are joining the Houston Independent School District to create an innovative program that teams master and novice middle school teachers with SMET undergraduate and graduate students, designated as GK-12 Fellows. Seven four-member teams are working together over a fifteen month fellowship period in an exchange of content knowledge and pedagogy.The program includes the following major features:* Fellows are introduced to K-12 education by participating in teacher enhancement programs at the participating universities. After spending an entire academic year working with their teacher team-mates, GK-12 Fellows serve as instructors in these same teacher enhancement programs during the last three months of their fellowship.* Teams design a two-semester project that involves the middle school students of the participating teachers. Projects focus on one of three themes: curriculum development, learning processes, or integration of instructional technology into the K-12 science and mathematics curriculum.* In addition to their time on K-12 campuses, Fellows participate in a weekly seminar on precollege science and mathematics educational reform.* Fellows serve as role models for middle school students as they provide instructional assistance to their teacher teammates.Our universities have a long history of working closely with the local school district to meet identified needs. This program strengthens and expands the already established relationships among the participating institutions, provides K-12 teachers with an exceptional professional development opportunity and their students with enriched instruction in science and mathematics, at the same time preparing graduate and undergraduate students to support K-12 education in their future careers.