Graduate Student Outreach to the Newark Public Schools

该提案概述了一项计划，涉及罗格斯大学-纽瓦克研究生和高级本科生与纽瓦克公立学校，纽瓦克博物馆和儿童公司作为NSF教学研究员。拟议方案的概念重点福尔斯主要属于知识转移和课程开发的主题。大学生将接受培训，以提供教育活动，这是不整合的，以探究为中心，并以建构主义为基础。该计划的优势在于，所有参与者，大学生，教师和在校学生，都将从经验中受益。要实现的效益是以下方案目标所固有的：o提高大学参与者的教学技能，以激励和激发学生对科学、数学和技术的兴趣，使学生接触新的思想、资源和潜在的职业，并展示他们的学习经验与真实的生活情况的相关性，以促进学生对科学和数学的知识和理解，为教师提供与研究生和高年级本科生合作的机会，为学生设计学习经验，并融入新的思想、活动，和资源纳入他们的教学大纲，为教师提供学习机会，并成为舒适的应用，动手，探究为基础的教学方法。

This proposal outlines a plan to involve Rutgers University-Newark graduate students and advancedundergraduates with the Newark Public Schools, Newark Museum, and Kids Corporation as NSF TeachingFellows. The conceptual focus of the proposed program falls largely under the thematic heading of knowledge transfer and curriculum development. The university students will be trained to delivereducational activities that are curriculumintegrated, inquiry-centered, and constructivist-based. The strength of the proposed program is that all participants, university students, teachers, and school students,will benefit from the experience. The benefits to be realized are inherent in the following program goals:o to enhance the teaching skills of the university participantso to motivate and excite students about science, mathematics, and technologyo to expose students to new ideas, resources, and potential careers and to demonstrate the relevance of their learning experiences to real life situationso to contribute to student knowledge and understanding of science and mathematicso to provide teachers an opportunity to collaborate with graduate students and advanced undergraduates indesigning learning experiences for their students and incorporate new ideas, activities, and resources into their curriculao to provide teachers opportunities to learn, and become comfortable applying, hands-on, inquiry-based approaches to teaching.