Teaching Science to English Language Learners: A New Approach to Teacher Preparation

美国自然历史博物馆（AMNH）与国家非营利组织Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages，Inc.合作。（TESOL，Inc.），正在开发一个新的教师准备计划的TESOL组件。为了响应纽约董事会最近决定授权非传统实体，如非正式的科学教育机构（ISE）开发教师准备计划，AMNH正在发展提供一个计划的能力，该计划将允许教师候选人获得纽约州董事会授予的教学艺术硕士（MAT）学位，并为7-12年级提供地球科学教学专业化。AMNH为MAT项目带来的独特资源包括：（1）200多名科学工作人员，（2）博士级教育和教育学专业人员，（3）为教师提供内容丰富的专业发展机会的历史，（4）与主办公立学校合作以提高学生成绩的记录，（5）通过先前的NSF投资，利用导师帮助学生和教师的经验，以及（6）其庞大的收藏，研究设施/实验室和展览霍尔斯。为期15个月，36学分的学术课程，由完全认可的AMNH Richard Gilder研究生院和AMNH教育部的教师联合提供，包括科学内容和教育学课程，AMNH的暑期教学和科学实习实习，以及纽约地区六所高需求寄宿学校的校本实习。 AMNH正在与TESOL，Inc.将以下TESOL成分注入其MAT计划：（1）准备博物馆和学校导师，以支持教师候选人满足英语学习者（ELL）的需求，（2）对ELL人口统计数据，资源和东道学校的需求进行基线分析，以及（3）通过专业发展和创建TESOL资源库，支持AMNH科学和教育教师的ELL教学。 MAT项目为TESOL公司等非营利组织提供了一个模型。可以与伊势和高等教育研究所合作，以提高全国的ELL成就。该项目利用科学博物馆的独特资源为教师做准备，还通过加强科学文化机构在改进科学教学方面的正式作用，为更广泛的教育改革做出贡献。

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), in partnership with the national nonprofit Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL, Inc.), is developing the TESOL components of a new teacher preparation program. In response to the New York State Board of Regents' recent decision to authorize non-traditional entities such as informal science education institutions (ISEs) to develop teacher preparation programs, AMNH is developing the capacity to offer a program that would allow teacher candidates to earn a NYS Board of Regents-awarded Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree with a Specialization in Earth Science teaching for grades 7-12. The unique resources AMNH bring to bear on the MAT program include (1) a scientific staff of more than 200, (2) a staff of doctoral-level education and pedagogy professionals, (3) a history of providing content-rich professional development opportunities to teachers, (4) a track record of partnering with host public schools to improve student achievement, (5) experience using mentors to aid students and teachers through prior NSF investments, and (6) its vast collections, research facilities/laboratories, and exhibition halls. The 15-month, 36-credit academic program, offered jointly by faculty in the fully accredited AMNH Richard Gilder Graduate School and the AMNH Education Department, includes coursework in science content and pedagogy, summer teaching and science practicum residencies at AMNH, and mentored school-based residencies in six high-needs host schools in the NYC region. AMNH is working with TESOL, Inc. to infuse the following TESOL components into its MAT program: (1) preparation of Museum and school mentors to support teacher candidates in meeting English Language Learner (ELL) needs, (2) baseline analysis of ELL demographics, resources, and needs in host schools, and (3) support in ELL instruction for AMNH science and education faculty through professional development and the creation of a TESOL resource collection. The MAT program presents a model for how a nonprofit such as TESOL, Inc. can work with a combined ISE and Institute of Higher Education to improve ELL achievement across the nation. Leveraging the unique resources of a science museum for teacher preparation, the project also contributes to education reform more broadly by strengthening the formal role of science-based cultural institutions in improving the teaching and learning of science.