Preparing Urban Lakeshore Science Educators (PULSE)

准备城市湖滨科学教育者(PULSE)项目将威斯康星大学帕克赛德分校作为牵头机构，威斯康星大学奥什科什分校和拉辛联合学区作为核心合作伙伴。这些合作伙伴正在与基诺沙联合学区和其他学区以及威斯康星大学校园建立广泛的伙伴关系，以共同的愿景解决城市和郊区学生之间的科学成就差距和教师高流动率的挑战。该伙伴关系将大学科学和教育教员、学区科学教师以及大学和学区的管理人员聚集在一起，彻底审查科学专业发展的文献和资源，特别是3-8年级的文献和资源，并对地区教师进行全面的需求分析。需求分析包括收集和分析关于特色教师需求的调查和焦点小组数据，并审查学生成绩数据，具体目的是探索教师短缺、自然减员和留住、任职前准备、在职专业发展和学生在科学方面取得成就的障碍等问题。对需求的更多了解正在指导专业发展讲习班课程的制定。正在发展基础设施，以便在各种场所举办讲习班，包括当地教室、区域师范学院和互联网/视频会议。该项目的中心目标是制定一项基于经验和可复制的计划，帮助3-8年级的职前和在职科学教师进行专业发展，重点是教授科学的技能和知识，并特别强调发展对城市教育环境中面临的挑战和问题的理解。在建立跨多个高等教育和K-12机构的伙伴关系的过程中，项目组还在研究伙伴关系的建立过程，特别侧重于研究如何最好地支持不同类型的城市学区。合作伙伴打算创建一项以MSP为目标的提案，旨在与人口统计、地理和表现水平不同的几个K-12学区合作，对几所公立高等教育机构的不同需求、挑战、成功和机会进行实证调查。威斯康星大学帕克赛德分校是一所公立大学，以本科为主，拥有威斯康星大学系统中最多元化的校园，吸引了大部分学生来自威斯康星州东南部的一条城市走廊，这些学生的收入和教育水平低于该州其他地区。威斯康星大学奥什科什分校的规模几乎是帕克赛德校区的三倍，虽然主要是本科生，但也有硕士学位课程。拉辛联合学区为来自城市、郊区和农村社区的大约2.1万名学生提供服务，包括21所小学、7所中学和3所高中。总体而言，接受服务的学生中有近一半来自少数民族。该MSP-Start项目的结果包括协作建设活动、需求评估和计划模型。这些产品将通过会议和出版场所公开分享。

The Preparing Urban Lakeshore Science Educators (PULSE) project brings together the University of Wisconsin-Parkside as lead institution, and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the Racine Unified School District as core partners. These partners are working with the Kenosha Unified School District and other school districts and University of Wisconsin campuses to establish a broad partnership with a shared vision to address the science achievement gap between urban and suburban students and the challenge of high teacher turnover. The partnership brings together university science and education faculty, district science teachers, and administrators from the universities and school districts, to conduct a thorough review of the literature and resources for science professional development, particularly for grades 3-8, and a comprehensive needs analysis of area teachers. The needs analysis includes collecting and analyzing survey and focus group data on characteristic teacher needs and reviewing student achievement data, with specific intentions to explore questions about teacher shortages, attrition and retention, pre-service preparation, in-service professional development, and barriers to student achievement in science. A greater understanding of the needs is guiding the development of curricula for professional development workshops. Infrastructure is being developed to offer workshop sessions in a variety of venues, including local classrooms, regional teacher academies, and internet/videoconferences. The central goal of the project is to develop an empirically-based and replicable plan to reach pre-service and in-service science teachers of grades 3-8 with professional development focused on skills and knowledge to teach science, with particular emphasis on developing an understanding of the challenges and issues faced in urban educational settings. In the course of building the partnership across multiple higher education and K-12 institutions, the project team is also studying the process of partnership-building, with particular focus on studying how best to support different types of urban school districts. The partners intend to create an MSP-Targeted proposal designed to empirically investigate the different needs, challenges, successes, and opportunities of several public institutions of higher education in collaborative partnership with several K-12 school districts whose demographics, geography, and performance levels differ. The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is a public, primarily undergraduate university with the most diverse campus in the University of Wisconsin system, drawing the majority of its students from an urban corridor in southeastern Wisconsin with lower income and educational levels than the rest of the state. The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is nearly three times the size of the Parkside campus, and while primarily undergraduate, also has master's degree programs. The Racine Unified School District serves approximately 21,000 students from a mix of urban, suburban, and rural communities, and includes 21 elementary schools, 7 middle schools, and 3 high schools. Overall, nearly half of students served are from racial minorities. The results of this MSP-Start project include collaboration-building activities, the needs assessment, and the program model. These products are to be shared publicly through conference and publication venues.