TRACK 2, GK-12: EdGrid Graduate Teaching Fellows Program

职务名称：GK-12：EdGrid研究生教学研究员计划（轨道2）机构：伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校首席研究员/联合首席研究员：迪安娜Raineri（PI）/Bertram布鲁斯，EricJakobsson，Richard Braatz，弗农伯顿（联合PI）每年研究员人数：8至10名研究生; 6名本科生学区合作伙伴：尚潘百年高中;丹维尔高中;欣斯代尔，区86;杜佩奇技术中心;上海市第一中学（所有女生）高中，奥考谷高中，杰斐逊，布朗斯敦和塞罗戈多小学目标受众：初中和高中环境：农村，城市和郊区NSF支持的学科涉及：动物科学，人类学，大气科学，生物学，化学，计算机科学，地理，数学，物理学，社会科学叙述：研究员与校园教师和参与K-12教师合作，将基于计算机的建模，科学可视化和信息学融入K-12科学和数学教育。开发了建模和可视化工具，帮助学生“学习如何做科学，学习科学的本质和学习科学内容”。GK-12 EdGrid项目为K-12科学和数学教师提供专业发展机会，以改善K-12科学教学和学习。GK-12 EdGrid计划利用STEM学科中重要的高等教育机构资源（人力和技术相关），为可持续的K-12教育推广创造一个框架。这些努力有助于提高对以下方面作用的认识和理解：a）高等教育STEM学科教师和学生在K-12教师专业发展中的作用; B）STEM学科教师和学生通过参与促进研究和教育融合的创新技术来改善K-12学生的学习; c）K-12环境中的教育合作机构; d）促进K-12学生对高等教育STEM学科的兴趣（作为榜样）;（e）大学与学校建立伙伴关系，通过吸收具有丰富知识的高等教育教师和研究生参与，改进大学教育的教学实践，12名教师。更广泛的影响。GK-12项目利用EdGrid的门户网站、查询网页（http：www.inquiry.uiuc.edu）、国家会议和各种出版物来传播GK-12的经验、建模和可视化工具以及课程材料，以支持全国的教师。通过与其他服务于主要代表性不足的学生群体的校园计划合作，GK-12 EdGrid计划积极寻求和招聘来自代表性不足的人群的毕业生和高级本科生。GK-12 EdGrid计划还通过积极招募社会科学研究生来扩大其已经跨学科的重点。社会科学学科的增加允许更多的K-12课程，并增加了另一个不同的愿景，有助于丰富的UIUC GK-12计划。 GK-12 EdGrid项目负责人正在与机构和学校管理人员合作，使GK-12活动成为UIUC研究生培训体验的不可分割和可持续的一部分。 该项目得到了生物科学局的部分支持。

Title: GK-12: EdGrid Graduate Teaching Fellows Program (Track 2)Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPrincipal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigators: Deanna Raineri (PI)/Bertram Bruce, EricJakobsson, Richard Braatz, Vernon Burton (Co-PIs)Number of Fellows per Year: 8 to 10 Graduate; 6 UndergraduateSchool District Partners: Champaign Centennial High School; Danville High School;Hinsdale, District 86; Technology Center of DuPage; Urbana High School, Home Hi (all girls)High School, Okaw Valley High School, Jefferson, Brownstown and Cerro Gordo ElementaryTarget Audience: Middle and High SchoolSetting: Rural, Urban and SuburbanNSF-Supported Disciplines Involved: Animal Science, Anthropology, Atmospheric Sciences,Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, Social SciencesNarrative: The Fellows collaborate with campus faculty and participating K-12 teachers tointegrate computer-based modeling, scientific visualization and informatics in K-12 scienceand mathematics education. Modeling and visualization tools are developed that engagestudents and help them to "learn how to do science, learn the nature of science and learnscience content". The GK-12 EdGrid project provides professional development opportunitiesfor K-12 science and mathematics teachers to improve K-12 science teaching and learning.Intellectual Merit. The GK-12 EdGrid Program draws on significant higher educationinstitutional resources (both human and technology-related) in the STEM disciplines to create aframework for sustainable K-12 education outreach. These efforts contribute to advancingknowledge and understanding of the role of: a) higher education STEM discipline faculty and students in the professional development of K-12 teachers; b) STEM discipline faculty and students in improving learning of K-12 students through the engagement of innovative technologies that foster integration of research and education; c) educational collaboratories in K-12 settings; c) graduate students in building sustainable university-school partnerships; d) graduate students in promoting K-12 student interest in higher education STEM disciplines (by acting as role models); e) university-school partnerships in improving pedagogical practices in university education through the engagement of higher education faculty and graduate students with experienced K-12 teachers.Broader Impacts. The GK-12 project utilizes EdGrid's web portal, the Inquiry Page(http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu), national conferences and various publications to disseminatethe GK-12 experiences, modeling and visualization tools and curriculum materials to supportteachers nation-wide. By partnering with other on-campus programs serving primarilyunderrepresented student groups, the GK-12 EdGrid program actively seeks and recruitsgraduates and advanced undergraduates from underrepresented populations. The GK-12 EdGrid program also broadens its already interdisciplinary focus by actively recruiting graduate studentsfrom the social sciences. The addition of social science disciplines allows for morecoverage of the K-12 curriculum and adds yet another varied vision that contributes to therichness of the UIUC GK-12 program. The GK-12 EdGrid program leaders are working with institutional and school administrators to make GK-12 activities an integral and sustainable part of the UIUC graduate training experience.Outcomes from Track 1. This project is receiving partial support from the Directorate for Biological Sciences.