Graduate Teaching Fellows (GK-12) for South Mississippi

该奖项为南密西西比大学（USM）开发GK-12项目提供资金。该项目每年将为12名研究生提供奖学金，让他们与密西西比州南部6个学区的K-12教师一起工作。研究员将从生物学、化学、地质学、数学、物理学和高分子科学的研究生项目中选出。每位研究员将与一名K-12教师和一名大学导师合作，开发和实施基于标准的活动和课程，这些活动和课程将整合到数学和科学课程中。南加州大学的科学与数学教育中心（CSMEd）将作为该项目的协调单位。从整体上看，所涉及的学区包括代表该州的学生群体，大约51%的非裔美国人，48%的白人和1%的其他人种。GK-12项目的计划包括夏季研讨会，将教师和研究员聚集在一起进行规划，学年期间每周为研究员举办研讨会，所有参与者（大学教职员工，研究员和教师）每学期至少举行一次联席会议，教师的专业发展机会，教师和研究员前往科学推广中心（科学博物馆，动物园，水族馆），以及地方，区域和国家会议。

This award provides funding for the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) to develop a GK-12 program. This program will provide fellowships for twelve graduate students per year to work with K-12 teachers in six south Mississippi school districts. Fellows will be selected from the graduate programs in biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics and polymer science. Each Fellow will pair with a K-12 teacher and a university mentor to develop and implement standards-based activities and lessons that will be integrated into the mathematics and science curriculum. The USM's Center for Science and Mathematics Education (CSMEd) will serve as the coordinating unit for the project. When taken as a whole, the school districts involved include a population of students that is representative of the state, approximately 51% African American, 48% White, and 1% Other. The plan for the GK-12 program includes a summer workshop to bring teachers and Fellows together for planning, weekly seminars for Fellows during the school year, joint meetings for all participants (university faculty, Fellows and teachers) at least once during each semester, professional development opportunities for the teachers, and travel for teachers and Fellows to science outreach centers (science museums, zoos, aquaria), and local, regional, and national conferences.