Center For Ocean Science Education Excellence - the Colorado Collaborative (CCC)

海洋科学教育卓越中心-科罗拉多合作中心(CCC)建议在科罗拉多大学博尔德分校(CU)和COSEE-West(南加州大学和加州大学洛杉矶分校)之间建立协同伙伴关系，将海洋科学教育带给内陆受众，使其与他们的生活密切相关，并提高海洋素养。通过结合每个组织的智力优势，CCC将使沿海地区的教师和学生接触到高质量的海洋科学教育。该中心的标志将是海洋科学家系列讲座与暑期教师学院相结合，该学院将使区域海洋科学家参与海洋科学教育，以促进海洋科学研究和教育的整合。每年将把不同的重点放在前沿海洋科学研究上，如海-气相互作用和区域气候；极地冰和海平面；以及海洋、气候和公共政策。CCC的运行主题将包括海洋管理和对地球科学的系统方法。使用视频会议向科罗拉多州和洛杉矶联合学区的教师进行演示，以及暑期教师交流计划，将允许来自不同地理和文化背景的教师互动并发展一种同志情谊，将把学生的课堂体验带到他们的学生身上。通过接触种族、社会经济和地理多样性的教师和学校，我们希望增加未被充分代表的人口参与海洋科学教育并考虑海洋科学职业的机会。该项目的总体智力价值在于沿海和内陆研究科学家、课堂教师和外展教育工作者之间的合作价值，以培养懂海洋的学生，这些学生反过来将影响他们的社区并成为知情的选民。拟议的伙伴关系的智力优势和预期成果包括：增强研究科学家和研究生的教学和交流技能；对海洋科学充满动力和兴奋的K-12学生，他们接触到新的想法、资源和潜在的职业；教师与科学家的互动将使教师能够将尖端研究纳入他们的教学；科罗拉多州和加利福尼亚州的教师之间的互动将促进全球对不同地区不断变化的水圈的影响的认识，以及教师和科学家之间的思想交流和未来的合作。对该项目的评估将有助于阐明内陆观众的海洋科学教育需求，并将与COSEE网络共享。拟议中的计划的更广泛影响有三个方面。首先，我们将向科罗拉多州学区的一部分--传统上服务不足的农村学校--提供高质量的教师专业发展计划。这个项目将为那些很少有机会与科学家互动或获得海洋第一手知识的学生开辟新的途径--在一些人看来，这个领域似乎远离他们的家几光年。其次，我们计划将科学家讲座/暑期教师学院计划发展成一个可持续的模式，CU的科学家可以在提出他们的研究建议的教育推广部分时插入。最后，COSEE-West和CCC之间的合作将产生一个更丰富的项目，结合了两个组织的智力优势，并将产生超出当地学区的影响。

The Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence -- the Colorado Collaborative (CCC) proposes to develop a synergistic partnership between the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU) and COSEE-West (University of Southern California and University of CA at Los Angeles) to bring ocean sciences education to inland audiences, make it personally relevant to their lives and increase ocean literacy. By combining the intellectual strengths of each organization, CCC will expose non-coastal teachers and students to high quality ocean sciences education. The hallmark of CCC will be an ocean scientist lecture series combined with a Summer Teacher Institute that will engage regional ocean scientists in ocean sciences education to facilitate the integration of ocean sciences research and education. Each year will have a different focus on cutting edge ocean science research, such as air-sea interactions and regional climates; polar ice and sea level; and oceans, climate and public policy. Running themes of the CCC will include stewardship of the oceans and a systems approach to earth science. The use of videoconferencing to deliver presentations to teachers across Colorado and in the Los Angeles Unified School District, along with a summer teacher exchange program, will allow teachers from diverse geographic and cultural backgrounds to interact and develop a camaraderie that will carry to their students' classroom experiences. By reaching out to teachers and schools with ethnic, socioeconomic and geographic diversity, we hope to increase opportunities for under-represented populations to participate in ocean sciences education and consider careers ocean science. The overall intellectual merit of this project is in the value of collaboration between coastal and inland research scientists, classroom teachers and outreach educators to develop ocean literate students, who will in turn impact their community and become informed voters. The intellectual merits and anticipated outcomes of the proposed partnership include: enhanced teaching and communication skills of the research scientists and graduate students; K-12 students who are motivated and excited about ocean sciences and are exposed to new ideas, resources and potential careers; interaction of teachers with scientists will allow teachers to incorporate cutting edge research into their teaching; and interactions between teachers in Colorado and California will promote a global awareness of the impacts of a changing hydrosphere in different regions, as well as cross-fertilization of ideas and future collaborations among teachers and scientists. Evaluation of the program will help elucidate the ocean science education needs of inland audiences, which will be shared with the COSEE Network. The broader impacts of the proposed program are three-fold. First, we will deliver a high quality teacher professional development program to a segment of Colorado school districts, the rural schools, which are traditionally under-served. This program will open new pathways for students who rarely get a chance to interact with scientists or get first-hand knowledge of the ocean-- a realm that that to some may seem light-years away from their home. Second, we plan to develop the scientist lecture/Summer Teacher Institute program into a sustainable model CU scientists can plug into when proposing their education outreach portion of their research proposals. Finally, the partnership between COSEE-WEST and CCC will yield a richer program that combines the intellectual strengths of each organization and will have impact beyond their local school districts.