Oakland Urban Teacher Residency

Oakland Urban Teacher Residency Program（OUTR）是米尔斯学院自然科学与数学系及其教育学院、奥克兰联合学区（OUSD）、劳伦斯科学馆和北方加州KQED公共媒体之间的合作项目。该项目正在招聘、准备、指导和维持一支由20名STEM教师组成的骨干队伍，这支队伍基于一种医疗住院医师模式，其中新的教学研究员由经验丰富的名师指导-这一模式补充了OUSD在其每所中学实施的教学轮模式。OUTR的一个关键组成部分是让教学研究员，研究员的导师和该计划的合作伙伴参与一个研究项目，研究这种教师驻留模式，以确定STEM职前教师的技能和知识如何随着时间的推移在相互联系，连贯的学习社区中发展。OUTR的合作伙伴和参与者进行研究，增加了关于高需求城市学区教师准备和保留的有效STEM驻留模式的知识基础。此外，该项目还支持新教师的干部在最初的准备年之后进入OUSD并至少停留四年，提供强大的内容知识，为奥克兰学生设计的有效教学方法，以及观察，监测和增加学生学习的知识。因此，该项目增加了OUSD中学STEM教师的数量，多样性和掌握程度，同时改善了学生的学习，以及教师对学习的学习，为其他类似的情况。

The Oakland Urban Teacher Residency program (OUTR) is a partnership among Mills College's Division of Natural Science and Mathematics and its School of Education, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), the Lawrence Hall of Science, and KQED Public Media for Northern California. The project is recruiting, preparing, mentoring and sustaining a cadre of 20 STEM teachers based on a medical residency model in which new Teaching Fellows are mentored by experienced master teachers---a model which complements the instructional rounds model that OUSD has implemented in each of their secondary schools. A key component of OUTR is engaging the Teaching Fellows, the Fellows' mentors, and the program's partners in a research project to study this teacher residency model in order to determine how the skills and knowledge of STEM pre-service teachers develop over time within connected, coherent learning communities. OUTR partners and participants produce research that adds to the knowledge base about effective STEM residency models of teacher preparation and retention in high-needs urban school districts. In addition, the project supports cadres of new teachers to enter and remain for at least four years in OUSD after their initial preparation year, providing strong content knowledge, effective pedagogies that are designed for teaching Oakland students, and knowledge of observing, monitoring and increasing student learning. Thus, the project increases the number, diversity, and mastery of secondary STEM teachers in OUSD, while improving student learning, and faculty learning about learning, for others similarly situated.