Portland State Unversity-Beaverton School District Partnership for Science Teacher Preparation

波特兰州立大学（PSU）正在与比弗顿学区（BSD）合作，准备30名教师，在高需求的中小学提供基于项目的科学探究。PSU的Robert Noyce奖学金计划汇集了来自文理学院（CLAS），教育研究生院（GSE）和BSD硕士教师的专业知识。比弗顿是俄勒冈州第二大、增长最快的公立学区，拉美裔学生和英语学习者的入学人数不断增加。项目招聘目标是来自科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科的本科和本科以上水平的高素质候选人，他们精通西班牙语或当地高需求学校中除英语以外的其他主要语言之一。该项目面向15名未来的小学教师，包括一门本科高级课程，涉及比弗顿小学双语学生及其家庭的科学项目，随后是PSU研究生教师教育项目（GTEP）的教育硕士学位。15名未来的中学教师将在PSU CLAS中攻读科学教学硕士学位，然后参加GTEP课程，要求在俄勒冈州获得执照。两组学生都要在BSD暑期科学夏令营担任一到两周的辅导员，并在当地探针软件制造商游标软件技术公司（Vernier Software & Technology）主办的关于技术增强科学探究的暑期研讨会上度过一周。该项目的智力优势包括30名在职教师和12名STEM专业人员作为持续的研究导师。Noyce学者完成一篇论文，包括对学习和教学科学的原创性研究，如读写能力或技术整合或文化适当评估，适合发表和展示。年度评估报告和夏季研究会议有助于维持参与者之间建立的专业学习社区，并传播由此产生的奖学金和产品，如课堂课程计划、工作样本和科学探究评估工具。

Portland State University (PSU) is collaborating with the Beaverton School District (BSD) to prepare 30 teachers to provide project-based science inquiry in high-need elementary and secondary schools. PSU's Robert Noyce Scholarship Program brings together the expertise of faculty from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), the Graduate School of Education (GSE), and master teachers from the BSD. Beaverton is Oregon's second-largest and fastest-growing public school district, with an increasing enrollment of Hispanic students and English language learners. Project recruitment targets highly qualified candidates at the undergraduate and post-baccalaureate levels from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, who have proficiency in Spanish or one of the other major languages other than English represented in local high-need schools. The program for a cohort of 15 future elementary teachers includes an undergraduate senior capstone course involving science projects with bilingual students and their families in Beaverton elementary schools, followed by work toward a Master of Education in the PSU Graduate Teacher Education Program (GTEP). The cohort of 15 future secondary teachers work toward a Master of Science Teaching degree within the PSU CLAS, followed by the GTEP coursework required to be recommended for licensure in Oregon. Both cohorts spend one to two weeks as counselors at BSD summer science camps and one week at a summer workshop on Technology-Enhanced Science Inquiry hosted by Vernier Software & Technology, a local probe-ware manufacturer. The project's intellectual merit includes its involvement of 30 in-service teachers and 12 STEM professionals as ongoing research mentors. Noyce Scholars complete a thesis incorporating original research on learning and teaching science, such as literacy or technology integration or culturally appropriate assessment, which is appropriate for publication and presentation. Annual evaluation reports and summer research conferences help sustain the professional learning communities created among participants and disseminate resulting scholarship and products, such as classroom lesson plans, work samples, and science inquiry assessment tools.