Florida A&M GEOSCIENCE Education: Improving Undergraduate GEOSCIENCE Teacher Preparation using the Multiplication Factor of Micro Spiral Methodology Workshop

该项目将为职前和在职教育工作者提供培训本科生和研究生使用微螺旋乘法方法（MSM）的策略，以提高K-12对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）概念的理解。研讨会将为参加者提供K-12年级的MSM协议有效的教学方法，以增加未来教育工作者和学生在STEM领域的知识，重点是地球科学。讲习班将使用在概念、知识和技能转移方面已使用了数十年的螺旋课程。在目前由于全球大流行病而处于转型期的教育系统的多个层次上，这种方法的培训可能是有益的。地球科学MSM的首要目标是增加地球科学内容知识，培养批判性思考者和终身学习者。具体目标包括教育利益相关者，如hbcu的大学教师，教师（在职和职前），以及管理人员关于MSM的协议和MSM乘法系数的好处。历史悠久的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）地球科学微螺旋项目可以为教师和教育协调员的专业发展提供多维战略解决方案，以改善地球科学的获取。具体的研讨会目标包括：1)增加对地球科学的知识和理解，以便将概念传递给未来的学生；2)通过丰富他们对地球科学内容的知识和理解来支持职前教师教育计划；3)通过增加在职教师的地球科学知识来支持在职教师，以便他们能够协助培训未来的地球科学专业人员。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will provide pre-service and in-service educators with strategies toward training their undergraduate and graduate students on usage of the multiplication factors of Micro-Spiral Methodology (MSM) to improve K-12 understanding of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) concepts. The workshop will provide participants with the protocol of the MSM effective teaching method for grades K-12 to increase knowledge of future educators and students in the STEM areas with emphasis in geosciences. The workshop will use the Spiral Curriculum that has been used for decades in the transfer of concepts, knowledge and skills. Training in this methodology could be beneficial at multiple levels of an educational system that is currently in transition due to a global pandemic.The overarching goal of the Geoscience MSM is to increase Geoscience content knowledge and create Critical-thinkers as well as lifelong learners. Specific goals include teaching educational stakeholders like university faculty at HBCUs, teachers (in-service and pre-service), as well as administrators about the protocol of the MSM and the benefit of the Multiplication Factor of the MSM. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Geoscience Micro-Spiral programs can deliver a multidimensional strategic solution to professional development for teachers and educational coordinators to improve access to the geosciences. Specific workshop objectives include: 1) increasing the knowledge and understanding of the geosciences so concepts can transfer to future students, 2) supporting pre-service teacher education programs by enriching their knowledge and understanding of geoscience content and 3) supporting in-service teachers by increasing their knowledge in the geosciences so that they can assist in the training of future geoscience professionals.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.