Missouri Science Teaching and Education Partnerships (MO-STEP)

项目名称：密苏里州科学教学与教育伙伴关系（MO-STEP） （Track1）。就读院校：密苏里大学圣路易斯市路易。PI和副PI：帕特里夏·帕克（PI），查尔斯·格兰杰，贝蒂·卢瓦塞尔，帕特里克·奥斯本。每年奖学金人数：10名研究生，5名本科生。学区合作伙伴：弗洛里森-弗格森，诺曼底，枫树伍德-里士满高地，巴顿维尔，韦尔斯顿。项目对象：9-12年级。设置:城市。密苏里州科学教学与教育合作伙伴关系（MO-STEP）结合了生物系的学术优势，国际热带生态中心和UM-St科学教育计划的教学背景。圣路易斯与大学附近的五所城市高中以及圣路易斯的环保组织进行了紧密的合作。知识价值：MO-STEP的知识价值在于提供当前的信息和实用的、前沿的应用，将生态学、保护生物学和分子遗传学联系起来。通过与密苏里植物园、圣路易斯动物园、永久森林公园和圣路易斯水产养殖中心的密切联系，MO-STEP为实地考察和暑期实习提供了机会，提供了系统学、生态学和生物多样性保护方面的实践经验。MO-STEP基于两个概念：(1)良好的教学需要良好的学科知识基础；(2)良好的教学策略对教与学至关重要。更广泛的影响：MO-STEP促进了一个由大学和高中教师组成的合作团队的专业发展，致力于改善9至16年级的科学教育。校企合作的三个历史障碍是：(1)高中教师不愿向大学教师寻求信息；(2)高校教师对高中科学教师需求的认识不足；(3)科学教育作为研究生职业选择的声望较低。MO-STEP以鼓励长期合作关系的密切专业协会取代了这种文化。高中科学教学的大力支持鼓励高中教师在扩大毕业生就业机会的同时继续合作关系。密苏里大学圣路易斯市分校生物学研究生项目。路易斯成功地招收了来自不同文化背景的学生，该项目在增加代表性不足群体的参与方面处于有利地位。目标参与学校的学生中有很大一部分来自目前在STEM领域代表性不足的群体。该项目得到了生物科学理事会的部分支持。

Title of Project: Missouri Science Teaching and Education Partnerships (MO-STEP) (Track1). Institution: University of Missouri-St. Louis. PI and Co-PIs: Patricia Parker (PI), Charles Granger, Bette Loiselle, Patrick Osborne. Number of fellows per year: Ten graduate fellows, five undergraduate fellows. School District Partners: Florissant-Ferguson, Normandy, Maplewood-Richmond Heights, Pattonville, Wellston. Target audience of the project: Grades 9-12. Setting: Urban. NSF supported disciplines involved: Biology, Science EducationBackground: The Missouri Science Teaching and Education Partnerships (MO-STEP) combines the academic strengths of the Department of Biology, the International Center for Tropical Ecology and the pedagogical background of the Science Education Program at UM-St. Louis in a tightly-coupled collaboration with five urban high schools located near the University and with conservation-focused organizations within St. Louis.Intellectual merit: The intellectual merit of MO-STEP lies in provision of current information and practical, cutting-edge applications that link ecology, conservation biology and molecular genetics. Through close ties with the Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis Zoo, Forest Park Forever and the St. Louis Aquacenter, MO-STEP facilitates opportunities for field trips and summer internships that provide hands-on experience in systematics, ecology and biodiversity conservation. MO-STEP is grounded in two concepts: (1) good teaching requires a sound discipline knowledge base and (2) good teaching strategies are critical to teaching and learning.Broader impacts: MO-STEP facilitates the professional development of a collaborative team of university and high school faculty working to improve science education at grades 9 though 16. Three historic barriers to school-university partnerships are (1) unwillingness of high school faculty to seek information from university faculty; (2) university faculty's lack of understanding of the needs of high school science teachers; and (3) low prestige of science education as career choice in science graduate programs. MO-STEP replaces this culture with close professional associations that encourage long-term partnerships. Strong support of high school science instruction encourages high school faculty to continue the collaborative relationship while expanding graduate career opportunities. The Biology Graduate Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis has successfully recruited students from diverse cultural backgrounds and the program is well positioned to increase participation of under-represented groups. The schools targeted for participation include a high percentage of students from groups currently underrepresented in STEM fields This project is receiving partial support from the Directorate for Biological Sciences.