Physical Scientists in K-14 Math and Science Education

K-14 数学和科学教育中的物理科学家

• 批准号: 1161005
• 负责人: Robert Eisenstein
• 金额: $ 9.12万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1161005&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Physical; Scientists; 14; Math; Science

This award provides NSF support to continue an experiment that utilizes the very large population of STEM professionals in New Mexico (third per capita among all states) to help improve K-14 math and science education in the Santa Fe area, and to raise the profile of math and science in the community. This experiment, a partnership between the Santa Fe Alliance for Science (SFAFS) and the Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS), began in May, 2005. In 2010, the partnership was extended to include Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), and in 2011 the University of New Mexico (Department of Physics and Astronomy) became the managing partner. The essential questions that this experiment seeks to answer are: (1) How can this resource of STEM professionals be utilized to make effective change happen? (2) How can this group of highly trained content experts in math and science be molded into an effective pedagogical entity? (3) How can existing educational modalities be modified, or reshaped, to take advantage of this talent pool? (4) How can these specially skilled individuals help create greater student and public interest in the beauty, power and value of math and science, and bring these ideas to all segments of our community? (5) How can the social and political issues that will certainly arise be dealt with most effectively? SFAFS's broad goal is to help K-14 students succeed in math and science so that they have the skills necessary to choose from a variety of careers. SFAFS has built an effort that brings greatly enriched math and science content to a large number of students, parents and teachers in Santa Fe. Thus the enormous math and science content knowledge accumulated by SFAFS volunteers during their careers has a rewarding "second life" as a knowledge base and inspiration for a widely diverse demographic of students.

该奖项提供NSF支持，继续利用新墨西哥州（所有州中人均第三）的大量STEM专业人员进行实验，以帮助改善圣达菲地区的K-14数学和科学教育，并提高数学和科学在社区中的形象。这项实验是圣达菲科学联盟（SFAFS）和圣达菲公立学校（SFPS）之间的伙伴关系，于2005年5月开始。2010年，合作伙伴关系扩大到包括圣达菲社区学院（SFCC），并在2011年，新墨西哥州大学（物理和天文学系）成为管理合作伙伴。 这个实验试图回答的基本问题是：（1）如何利用STEM专业人员的资源来实现有效的变革？(2)如何将这群训练有素的数学和科学内容专家塑造成一个有效的教学实体？(3)如何修改或重塑现有的教育模式，以利用这一人才库？(4)这些具有特殊技能的人如何帮助学生和公众对数学和科学的美丽、力量和价值产生更大的兴趣，并将这些想法带到我们社区的各个方面？(5)如何最有效地处理必然会出现的社会和政治问题？SFAFS的广泛目标是帮助K-14学生在数学和科学方面取得成功，使他们具备从各种职业中选择所需的技能。SFAFS努力为圣达菲的大量学生、家长和教师带来丰富的数学和科学内容。因此，SFAFS志愿者在其职业生涯中积累的大量数学和科学内容知识具有有益的“第二生命”，成为各种学生的知识基础和灵感来源。