GK-12 Engineering Fellowships to Enhance Science Education in South Carolina Schools

南卡罗来纳州的K-12学校正在实施新的州科学标准。因此，许多教师在开发新的课程和教案时，必须获得显著的新的教学知识。该项目支持机械、化学、电气、计算机、土木工程和环境工程专业的10名研究生与3-9年级的理科教师和他们的学生一起工作。涉及学区人员的项目规划确定了这些工科学生的内容知识与这些年级的新科学标准之间的一些联系。研究生研究员将帮助教师采用、调整和开发使用工程实例、实验、探究和设计问题的课程和教材。每个研究员将成为标准的一个或多个领域的专家，并将在他们的整个任期内与几个教师和学校合作。这一计划有效地将研究员的教学活动与他们的研究生教育和研究经验结合在一起。除了拟议的服务学习活动外，研究员还将通过教育学院开发的实地课程接受关于教学原则、认知过程和学习风格的正式指导。还提议举办一系列有研究员和参与教师参加的暑期讲习班。

K-12 schools in South Carolina are implementing new state science standards. As a result, many teachers must obtain significantly new content knowledge while developing new curricula and lesson plans. This project supports ten graduate students majoring in mechanical, chemical, electrical, computer, civil and environmental engineering to work with grades 3-9 science teachers and their students. Project planning involving school district personnel has identified a number of connections between the content knowledge of these engineering students and the new science standards for these grades. The graduate fellows will help teachers adopt, adapt and develop curriculum and instructional materials that use engineering examples, experiments and inquiry and design problems. Each fellow will become an expert in one or more area of the standards, and will work with several teachers and schools throughout their tenure. This plan effectively integrates the fellows' teaching activities with their graduate education and research experiences. In addition to the service learning activities proposed, the fellows will receive formal instruction on teaching principles, cognitive processes and learning styles through a field-based course developed by the College of Education. A series of summer workshops involving the fellows and participating teachers is also proposed.