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方法（MSM）的乘法因子的策略，以提高K-12对科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）概念的理解。该研讨会将为参与者提供男男性接触者有效教学方法的协议，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。讲习班将使用螺旋课程，该课程已被用于几十年的概念，知识和技能的转让。在这种方法的培训可能是有益的，在多个层次的教育系统，目前正处于过渡，由于全球性的流行病。地球科学MSM的总体目标是增加地球科学内容的知识，并创造批判性思维者以及终身学习者。具体目标包括向教育利益攸关方，如HBCU的大学教师，教师（在职和职前）以及管理人员讲授男男性接触者的协议和男男性接触者倍增因子的好处。历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）地球科学微螺旋计划可以为教师和教育协调员的专业发展提供多方面的战略解决方案，以改善对地球科学的获取。讲习班的具体目标包括：1）增加地球科学的知识和理解，使概念可以转移到未来的学生，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）支持-通过增加他们在地球科学方面的知识来服务教师，以便他们能够帮助培训未来的地球科学专业人员。基金会的使命是履行其法定使命，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.