Partnership to Improve Student Achievement in Physical Sciences: Integrating STEM Approaches (PISA2)

该项目由史蒂文斯理工学院牵头，与圣彼得学院、哥伦比亚大学和整个新泽西12个地理、社会经济和学术多样化的学区合作，旨在提高3-8年级学生的物理科学成绩，并增加准备教授物理科学的教师的数量、质量和多样性。此外，该伙伴关系的重点是培养学生的21世纪技能，特别是解决问题，创新和创造力，通过嵌入基于问题的学习方法到教师认证计划的五个新课程。这些课程将工程设计与科学和数学概念的掌握相结合，重点关注AAAS科学素养基准确定的三个主要主题领域：物理环境，设计世界和技术的本质。这些课程与2009年新泽西科学核心课程内容标准相关，该标准具有跨学科STEM方法和基于问题的学习重点。五门课程中的每一门都将从当代问题的角度进行介绍，科学和工程在其中发挥着至关重要的作用，例如能源消耗和气候变化。科学探究和工程设计过程被嵌入到每门课程中，并被用作促进21世纪技能的工具，特别是解决问题，创新和创造力。在该项目的五年中，400名在职教师，50名STEM本科生（副教师）和120名学校和地区管理人员将受益于伙伴关系的主要项目：1）一个新的，五门课程的研究生证书课程，2）利用研究生课程内容的密集专业发展课程，3）学年研讨会和每月的课堂参观，4）科学和工程本科生的教学途径选择，5）为地区和高等教育合作伙伴提供领导力培训/战略规划/组织能力建设，以及6）科学范围和课程研讨会。此外，该伙伴关系在牵头机构建立了一个扩展的教师社区&，史蒂文斯理工学院，扩展了一个学习社区称为研究&创新工程教育，从而正式教师发展途径的指定大师和史蒂文斯的晋升和终身职位的过程中提供信贷参与相关活动。

This project, led by Stevens Institute of Technology, in partnership with St. Peter's College, Columbia University and 12 geographically, socio-economically and academically diverse school districts throughout New Jersey, aims to improve student achievement in physical sciences in grades 3-8 and increase the quantity, quality and diversity of teachers who are prepared to teach physical science. In addition, the partnership focuses on developing students' 21st century skills, in particular problem-solving, innovation and creativity, by embedding problem-based learning approaches into five new courses in the teacher certification programs. The courses blend engineering design with the mastery of science and mathematics concepts by focusing on three major topic areas as identified by the AAAS Benchmarks for science literacy: the physical setting, the designed world, and the nature of technology. The courses are correlated with the 2009 New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in science, which have an interdisciplinary STEM approach and a problem-based learning emphasis. Each of the five courses will be introduced through the perspective of a contemporary issue in which science and engineering play a paramount role, such as energy consumption and climate change. Scientific inquiry and the engineering design process are embedded within each course and are used as vehicles to promote 21st Century Skills, particularly problem-solving, innovation and creativity.Over the five years of the project, 400 in-service teachers, 50 STEM undergraduates (preservice teachers) and 120 school and district administrators will benefit from the partnership's primary programs: 1) a new, five-course graduate certificate program, 2) intensive professional development programs leveraging graduate course content, 3) school-year workshops and monthly classroom visits, 4) a Pathways to Teaching Option for science and engineering undergraduates, 5) leadership training/strategic planning/organizational capacity building for district and higher education partners, and 6) science scope & sequence and curriculum workshops.In addition, the partnership creates an extended faculty community at the lead institution, Stevens Institute of Technology, extending a learning community known as Research & Innovation in Engineering Education, thereby formalizing faculty development pathways to the designation of Master Teacher and providing credit in Stevens' promotion and tenure process for participation in related activities.