Science Experts Teaching Students

密苏里州立大学（Missouri State University）正在协调制定一项科学教师培训计划，以增加为在高需求的中学和高中教授科学做好充分准备的科学教师数量。科学专家教学生（SETS）能力建设项目是一个为期两年的初中和高中科学教师合作项目，大学科学家和教师教育部门正在通过两个密集的夏季研讨会设计一个教师培训计划，该计划通过双本科学位课程或为期一年的学士学位后课程，为拥有STEM学位的个人提供初中和高中科学教学资格。set项目基于一种科学教师培养模式，该模式是通过初中和高中科学教师、大学科学教师教育者和大学科学家的真正合作来设计和教学的。它的设计是根据经过研究验证的最佳实践和国家科学教师协会的教师准备标准，并以其他Noyce项目的工作为基础，特别是那些向农村地区教师提供入门课程的项目。该项目正在扩大密苏里州立大学的能力，以解决初中和高中科学教学中教师短缺的问题。所有的set参与者都在探索教师学院的专家顾问的指导下学习有效的指导实践和入门课程。由于许多新教师在小型农村学校孤立工作，因此，set项目正在制定一项全区域的入职方案，将新教师与整个地区的同行和科学教学教练联系起来。

Missouri State University is coordinating the development of a program for science teacher preparation to increase the number of science teachers who are well prepared to teach science in high-needs middle schools and high schools. The Science Experts Teaching Students (SETS) capacity-building project is a two-year collaboration between middle school and high school science teachers, university scientists and teacher education faculty who are working through two intensive summer workshops to design a teacher preparation program that prepares individuals who have a STEM degree to become certified to teach middle school and high school science through a dual-undergraduate degree program or through a one-year post-baccalaureate program. The SETS project is based on a model of science teacher preparation that is designed and taught through true collaboration of master middle and high school science teachers, university science teacher educators and university scientists. It is being designed in accordance with research-validated best practices and the teacher preparation standards of the National Science Teachers Association and builds on the work of other Noyce projects, especially those with induction programs delivered to teachers in rural areas. The project is expanding the capacity of Missouri State University to address defined teacher shortages in middle and high school science teaching. All SETS participants are learning about effective mentoring practices and induction programs through training led by an expert consultant from the Exploratorium Teacher Institute. Since many novice teachers work in isolation in small rural schools, the SETS project is developing a region-wide induction program that connects the novice teachers to peers and to science instructional coaches located throughout the region.