Transforming Minds in a Transitioning Community

在转型社区的GK-12计划在北卡罗来纳州格林斯伯勒大学合作伙伴研究员从几个部门的研究生课程与教师和学生在三个吉尔福德县学校（一个小学，初中和高中在同一个社区）形成发现团队，科学地调查生物，健康相关的，和社会经济影响改变土地利用模式在该地区。研究员的研究问题与当地邻里问题和土地利用模式的更大历史变化有关。虽然研究问题的重点是邻里和区域环境问题，由程序参与者获得的科学素养技能将使他们能够批判性地和定量地解决任何科学问题或环境相关的问题，从本地到全球范围。研究员和教师将在三个主要任务的校本团队工作：基于探究的课程计划的开发和交付，差异化教学的质量和数量更高，以及创建K-12学生团队来教授他人科学概念和方法。研究员将学习与各种各样的受众交流研究，制定课程计划，培养领导技能，提高教学能力，并与学生一起参与研究活动。教师将把新的研究融入他们的教学和学习，并参加以探究为基础的科学教学和与不同学生群体合作的专业发展。K-12学生将参与新形式的科学学习和研究，并将接触到各种STEM职业。

Transforming Minds in a Transitioning CommunityThe GK-12 program at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro partners Fellows from several departmental graduate programs with teachers and students at three Guilford County Schools (one elementary, middle and high school in the same neighborhood) to form discovery teams to scientifically investigate the biological, health-related, and socioeconomic effects of changing land use patterns in the region. The research questions of the Fellows are linked to local neighborhood issues and larger historical changes in land use patterns. Although the research questions are focused on neighborhood and regional environmental issues, the scientific literacy skills acquired by program participants will enable them to critically and quantitatively address any scientific question or environmentally-related problem, ranging from local to global scales. Fellows and teachers will work in school-based teams on three primary tasks: the development and delivery of inquiry-based lesson plans, greater quality and quantity of differentiated instruction, and the creation of K-12 student teams to teach others science concepts and methods. Fellows will learn to communicate research to a wide variety of audiences, develop lesson plans, develop leadership skills, enhance their teaching capability, and engage in research activities with students. Teachers will integrate new research into their teaching and learning and take part in professional development on inquiry-based science instruction and working with diverse student groups. K-12 students will become engaged in new forms of science learning and research and will be exposed to a variety of STEM careers.