Track 2, GK-12: SFSU/SFUSD Science Teachers and Research Scholars Program

项目名称：研究生教学研究员在K-12教育（GK-12）轨道2：SFSU/SFUSD科学教师和研究学者（星星）计划机构：旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学（SFSU），科学与工程学院（COSE）PI/共同PI。s：约翰斯塔布斯，PI;金伯利坦纳，凯瑟琳O.沙利文，格雷琴Rollwagen Bollens，共同PI。s每年的研究员人数：12学区合作伙伴：旧金山弗朗西斯科联合学区（SFUSD）项目的目标受众（K-12年级）：初中和高中，6- 12年级设置：城市NSF支持的学科涉及：生物，化学，物理，地球科学，数学 该星星计划的重点是SFSU科学研究生和SFUSD教师之间的个人伙伴关系，共同在初中和高中现场提供高质量的探究式科学教学。 这个轨道2项目使用三个阶段的计划，通过取代NSF GK-12研究生教学研究员（GTF）超过5年COSE研究生研究和教学合作伙伴（GRTP），使研究生与教师的伙伴关系制度化。 这些GRTP将是COSE的研究生，他们正在努力攻读科学内容学科（生物学，化学，物理学，地球科学，数学）的硕士学位，但他们的论文中增加了一个新的要求，即科学教育部分。 该GRTP将采取一系列的教学课程，并作为一个高潮的经验，将参加每周10小时的现场伙伴关系与初中或高中教师。 智力优势：该项目为科学教育伙伴关系这一新兴学科的知识库做出了贡献，并为将伙伴关系努力纳入大学科学系的使命和目标开拓了战略和结构。 研究员发展教学技能和K-12教育宣传作为他们的研究生培训的一部分。 教师提高基于探究的教学方法和指导技能，K-12学生体验增强的科学学习，并获得追求科学事业的各种榜样。 制度化计划是一个创造性的重点，将科学教育推广到整个SFSU COSE的传统研究学位中。更广泛的影响：星星计划的合作伙伴SFSU和SFUSD都是多元化的城市教育机构。 旧金山联合大学有60，000多名学生，其中55%来自经济困难的家庭，代表了50多个种族背景，没有一个群体占学生总数的30%。此外，星星计划吸引了SFSU多样化的研究生和本科生群体，其中约20%是拉丁裔/非洲裔美国学生。因此，该计划将直接影响传统上在科学领域代表性不足的K-16+学生，并向其他城市机构传播将伙伴关系计划制度化的模式。 该项目扩大了SFSU目前的科学教育合作伙伴关系，建立了课程和奖励结构，将在拨款期限之外继续努力，并在现有的COSE硕士学位课程中启动新的学术途径，让研究生参与科学教育合作伙伴关系，作为他们科学培训的一部分。 Track 1的结果：GTF（迄今为止有27名）提高了他们设计有效科学学习活动的技能，并致力于在职业生涯中继续推广。 合作伙伴的教师有一个新的教学科学的热情，在外部评估调查记录。 到目前为止，GTF教师合作伙伴已经对80多个基于探究的课程计划进行了针对具体年级的调整，直接影响了5所中学（4个内城）的1500名学生和6所高中（4个内城）的1000名学生。市中心的学校有60%的拉丁裔/非洲裔美国学生。所有的合作伙伴教师（14 MS，16 HS）报告说，学生有显着增加科学活动的兴趣作为GTF的存在的直接结果。从轨道1中获得的经验，程序已经发展，建立有效的GTF-教师的伙伴关系，学期开始之前。最后，第一轨道的经验使旧金山联合大学和旧金山州立大学之间建立了非常密切的伙伴关系，这将使第二轨道星星计划能够迅速顺利地实施。最后，COSE行政部门已成为GK-12模式作为科学研究生学位组成部分制度化的强烈倡导者，该项目部分得到生物科学理事会的支持。

Title of Project: Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) Track 2: SFSU/SFUSD Science Teachers and Research Scholars (STAR) Program Institution: San Francisco State University (SFSU) ,College of Science and Engineering(COSE)PI/Co-PI.s: John Stubbs, PI; Kimberly Tanner, Kathleen O.Sullivan, Gretchen Rollwagen Bollens, Co-PI.s Number of Fellows per year: 12 School District Partners: San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Target audience of the project (K-12 grade band): Middle and High schools ,Grades 6-12Setting: Urban NSF supported disciplines involved: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geosciences, Mathematics The STAR Program is focused on individual partnerships between SFSU science graduate students and SFUSD teachers, working together on-site in middle and high schools to deliver high quality inquiry-based science instruction. This Track 2 project uses a three phase plan to institutionalize graduate student-teacher partnerships by replacing the NSF GK-12 Graduate Teaching Fellows (GTF) over 5 years with COSE Graduate Research and Teaching Partners (GRTP). These GRTP will be graduate students in the COSE who are working toward their Master's degree in a science content discipline (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geosciences, Mathematics), but have a new requirement added to their thesis, a Science Education component. The GRTP will take a series of pedagogy courses and, as a culminating experience, will participate in a 10 hour per week on-site partnership with a middle or high school teacher. Intellectual Merit: The project contributes to the knowledge base of the emerging discipline of science education partnership, as well as pioneers strategies and structures for the integration of partnership efforts into the mission and goals of university science departments. The Fellows develop pedagogical skills and K-12 education advocacy as part of their graduate training. Teachers improve inquiry-based teaching methods and mentoring skills, and K-12 students experience enhanced science learning and gain access to diverse role models pursuing careers in science. The institutionalization plan is a creative focus that imbues science education outreach into traditional research degrees throughout the SFSU COSE. Broader Impacts: The STAR Program partners, SFSU and the SFUSD, are both diverse urban educational institutions. The 60,000+ students in the SFUSD, 55% of which are from economically disadvantage families, represent over 50 ethnic backgrounds, with no single group representing 30% of the total student body. Moreover, the STAR Program draws from a diverse graduate and undergraduate population at SFSU in which ~20% are Latina/ African American students.Thus, this program will directly influence K-16+ students traditionally underrepresented in science, as well as disseminate a model for institutionalizing partnership programs to other urban institutions. The project expands the current science education partnership efforts at SFSU, establishes courses and reward structures that will sustain the effort beyond the term of the grant, and initiates new academic pathways in existing COSE Master's degree programs to involve graduate students in science education partnership efforts as part of their scientific training. Results from Track 1: GTF (27 to date) have improved their skill in devising effective science learning activities and have committed to continued outreach in their careers. Partner teachers have a renewed sense of enthusiasm for teaching science, documented in external evaluation surveys. The GTF-teacher partners have made grade-specific adaptations of over 80 inquiry-based lesson plans to date, with direct impact on ~1500 students in 5 middle schools (4 inner city) and 1000 students in six high schools( 4 inner city). The inner city schools have 60% Latina/African American student populations. All partner teachers(14 MS, 16 HS) report that students have significantly increased interest in science activities as a direct result of GTF presence. From experience gained in Track 1, procedures have evolved which establish effective GTF-teacher partnerships prior to semester startup. Finally, the Track 1 experience has resulted in a very close partnership between the SFUSD and SFSU, which will allow for rapid and smooth implementation of the Track 2 STAR Program. Finally, the COSE administration has become a strong advocate of institutionalizing the GK-12 model as a component of science graduate degrees.This project is partially supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences.