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战略，培训他们的本科生和研究生如何使用微螺旋方法学(MSM)的乘法因素，以提高K-12对科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)概念的理解。研讨会将为学员提供K-12年级MSM有效教学方法的方案，以增加STEM领域未来教育工作者和学生的知识，重点是地球科学。讲习班将使用几十年来一直使用的螺旋课程来传授概念、知识和技能。在目前由于全球混乱而处于转型中的教育体系的多个层面上，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，培养批判性思想者和终身学习者。具体目标包括向教育利益攸关方，如HBCU的大学教师、教师(在职和任职前)以及管理人员传授有关MSM的协议和MSM倍增因素的好处。从历史上看，黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的地球科学微螺旋项目可以为教师和教育协调员提供专业发展的多维战略解决方案，以改善获得地球科学的机会。具体的研讨会目标包括：1)增加对地球科学的知识和理解，以便概念可以传递给未来的学生；2)通过丰富他们的知识和对地球科学内容的理解来支持职前教师教育计划；以及3)通过增加他们在地球科学方面的知识来支持在职教师，以便他们能够帮助未来的地球科学专业人员的培训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.