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

项目名称：K-12教育研究生教学研究员（GK-12） Track 2: SFSU/SFUSD科学教师和研究学者（STAR）项目机构：旧金山州立大学（SFSU）科学与工程学院（COSE）PI/Co-PI约翰·斯塔布斯，私家侦探；金伯利·坦纳，凯瑟琳·o·沙利文，格雷琴·罗沃根·博伦斯，共同负责人。每年研究员人数：12个学区合作伙伴：旧金山联合学区（SFUSD）项目目标受众（K-12年级）：初中和高中，6-12年级设置：城市国家科学基金会支持的学科：STAR计划的重点是SFSU理科研究生和SFUSD教师之间的个人伙伴关系，在初中和高中现场合作，提供高质量的探究式科学教学。第二轨道项目采用三个阶段的计划，通过在5年内用COSE研究生研究和教学合作伙伴（GRTP）取代NSF GK-12研究生教学研究员（GTF），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，他们正在攻读科学内容学科（生物、化学、物理、地球科学、数学）的硕士学位，但在他们的论文中增加了一个新的要求，即科学教育部分。GRTP将参加一系列的教育学课程，作为最终体验，将与一名初中或高中教师每周进行10小时的现场合作。知识价值：该项目为科学教育伙伴关系这一新兴学科的知识基础做出了贡献，并开创了将伙伴关系努力整合到大学科学系的使命和目标中的战略和结构。作为研究生培训的一部分，研究员培养教学技能和K-12教育宣传。教师改进了基于探究的教学方法和指导技能，K-12学生体验了强化的科学学习，并有机会接触到追求科学事业的各种榜样。制度化计划是一个创造性的焦点，将科学教育扩展到整个SFSU COSE的传统研究学位中。更广泛的影响：STAR计划的合作伙伴，SFSU和SFUSD，都是不同的城市教育机构。SFUSD的6万多名学生中，55%来自经济困难的家庭，他们来自50多个种族背景，没有一个群体占学生总数的30%。此外，STAR计划从旧金山州立大学的不同研究生和本科生中招收学生，其中约20%是拉丁裔/非裔美国学生。因此，该项目将直接影响K-16+学生，传统上在科学领域的代表性不足，并将合作项目制度化的模式传播给其他城市机构。该项目扩大了旧金山州立大学目前的科学教育伙伴关系的努力，建立了课程和奖励结构，将在资助期限后继续努力，并在现有的COSE硕士学位课程中开辟了新的学术途径，使研究生参与科学教育伙伴关系的努力，作为他们科学训练的一部分。Track 1: GTF（迄今为止有27个）的结果提高了他们设计有效的科学学习活动的技能，并致力于在他们的职业生涯中继续推广。外部评价调查显示，合作教师对科学教学有了新的热情。迄今为止，gtf教师合作伙伴已经对80多个基于探究性的课程计划进行了年级调整，直接影响了5所初中（4所内城）的1500名学生和6所高中（4所内城）的1000名学生。市中心的学校有60%的学生是拉丁裔/非裔美国人。所有合作教师（14名MS， 16名HS）报告说，由于GTF的存在，学生对科学活动的兴趣显著增加。根据第一阶段的经验，在学期开始前建立有效的gtf -教师伙伴关系的程序已经有所发展。最后，轨道1的经验导致SFUSD和SFSU之间非常密切的伙伴关系，这将允许快速和顺利地实施轨道2 STAR计划。最后，COSE管理部门已经成为将GK-12模式制度化作为科学研究生学位组成部分的强烈倡导者。该项目得到了生物科学理事会的部分支持。

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.