A Summit for Improvement of Undergraduate Geoscience Teacher using the Micro Spiral Methodology Transgenerational, Transcultural, and Transformational Solutions

有证据表明，使用微螺旋教学法(MSM)的学生成绩呈指数级增长，有效地克服了旷课和教学时间的损失，这在过去十多年里帮助提高了州科学考试成绩(例如，佛罗里达州塔拉哈西的发展研究学校)。MSM使用递归重复模式，在之前的每次相遇的基础上，加深对概念、知识和技能的理解(Davis，2015)。随着MSM的应用，佛罗里达州的州科学成绩总体上有所提高，其中来自历史上被排除在外的社区的学生的成绩显著增加，这些群体的地球科学成绩甚至显著提高(佛罗里达州教育部(DOE)，2009-2020年全州科学评估)。有针对性地将MSM应用于地球科学可以为地球科学教育工作者和学生提供跨代、跨文化和变革性的解决方案。目前的项目旨在建立MSM地球科学“培训培训者计划”，这将有助于来自历史上被排除在外的社区的更多学生将地球科学作为一条可能的职业道路。拟议的峰会将聚集微螺旋方法实践社区规划中的关键利益攸关方，并将另一个重点放在扩大成功的MSM培训培训员研讨会上，该研讨会于2019年和2021年举行。利益攸关方群体将主要由地球科学家和STEM教育工作者组成。这一分阶段的计划将使少数族裔服务机构(MSI)的地球科学家和STEM教育工作者参与以下活动：1)第一阶段，提供高级MSM培训主要在美国东南部为MSI参与者队列提供培训者研讨会。MSM专家将培训不同的地球科学家和STEM教育工作者，重点是地球科学，包括超越传统地球科学学术轨迹的职业，重点是未来的科学教育工作者；2)第二阶段，第一阶段的受训人员将被部署到各自的当地地区，在每个地区启动男男性接触者培训者培训过程的扩展，并继续强调使用男男性接触者教授地球科学内容。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。

Evidence shows the exponential increase in student performance by using the Micro-Spiral Method (MSM) of instruction is effective in overcoming absenteeism and loss of instructional time which has helped increase state science test scores for well over a decade (e.g., Developmental Research School in Tallahassee, Florida). MSM uses a recursive repetition model that causes a deeper understanding of concepts, knowledge, and skills with each successive encounter building on the previous encounters (Davis, 2015). With the application of MSM, FL state science scores have increased overall with notable increases among students from historically excluded communities, and even significant gains among these groups in geoscience scores (Florida Department of Education (DOE), Statewide Science Assessment 2009-2020). Targeted application of MSM to the geosciences could provide transgenerational, transcultural, and transformational solutions for geoscience educators and students. The current project seeks to establish an MSM geosciences "train the trainer program" which will help interest more students from historically excluded communities into pursuing geosciences as a possible career pathway.The proposed Summit is to gather key stakeholders in the planning of the Micro-Spiral Method Community of Practice with an additional focus on scaling the successful MSM train the trainer workshops that occurred in 2019 and 2021. Stakeholder groups will mainly be comprised of geoscientists and STEM educators. This phased program will engage geoscientists and STEM educators from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in the following activities: 1) Phase One, provision of advanced MSM train the trainer workshops for MSI participant cohorts, primarily in the southeastern U.S. Diverse cohorts of geoscientists and STEM educators will be trained by MSM experts with an emphasis on geosciences, including careers beyond the traditional geoscience academic trajectories with focused instruction on future science educators; 2) Phase Two, trained individuals from the Phase One cohorts will be deployed to their respective local districts to initiate the expansion of the MSM train-the-trainer process in each respective district with a continued emphasis on using MSM for teaching geoscience content.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.