CalTeach: Physical Sciences and Engineering

这个项目建立了CalTeach：物理科学与工程（CTPSE）。项目团队包括来自工程学院、化学与生物化学系、物理系和教育系的教师；来自圣巴巴拉联合学区两所STEM学院的高中教师和校长；以及来自加州大学圣巴巴拉分校数学、工程和科学成就项目、Dos Pueblos工程学院基金会和圣巴巴拉县PreK-20 STEM委员会的项目主管和社区领袖。该项目将培养24名高素质、多元化的物理和化学教师。这些教师正在高需求的中学实施国家研究委员会的K-12科学教育框架，特别是向缺乏服务的学生教授科学和工程核心思想和实践。项目团队正在跟踪教师学者的职业轨迹，以评估他们作为高需求学校的初级教师的有效性，并根据评估结果加强CTPSE项目的组成部分。该项目的更广泛影响包括将UCSB训练有素、积极性高的物理和化学教师的产量提高140%。在培养科学教师将工程与科学结合起来，并使学生积极参与解决工程问题和调查自然现象方面被发现的有效策略正在广泛传播。CTPSE项目正在改善加州缺乏教育的学生的化学和物理教学，为更多拉丁裔/美国人、低收入学生和英语学习者提供优质和公平的物理科学教育。

This project establishes CalTeach:Physical Sciences and Engineering (CTPSE). The project team includes faculty from the College of Engineering as well as the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics, and Education; high school teachers and principals from two STEM Academies in the high-needs Santa Barbara Unified School District; and program directors and community leaders from UCSB's Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement program, the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Foundation, and the Santa Barbara County PreK-20 STEM Council. The project is preparing 24 highly qualified and diverse physics and chemistry teachers. These teachers are implementing the National Research Council's Framework for K-12 Science Education in high-needs secondary schools, specifically, to teach science and engineering core ideas and practices to underserved students. The project team is tracking the professional trajectories of the Teacher Scholars to evaluate their effectiveness as beginning teachers in high-needs schools and to strengthen CTPSE program components in light of evaluation findings.The broader impacts of this project include increasing UCSB's production of thoroughly trained, highly motivated physics and chemistry teachers by 140%. Strategies found effective in preparing science teachers to integrate engineering and science, and to actively engage students in solving engineering problems and investigating natural phenomena are being widely disseminated. The CTPSE project is improving the teaching of chemistry and physics to underserved students in California, providing more Latinos/as, low-income students, and English learners with access to an excellent and equitable physical science education.