QUATTRO ALLIANCE FOR SCIENCE AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATION

描述(由申请人提供)： 加州大学旧金山分校的科学与健康教育伙伴关系(SEP)与旧金山联合学区(SFUS)密切合作，提出了国家卫生研究院(NIH)SEPA，即Quattro科学与语言整合联盟。通过Quattro联盟，SEP将制定科学和语言方面的专业发展计划，并开展全面的研究、文献和传播工作。Quattro将建立一个由四组参与者-小学教师、加州大学旧金山分校志愿者、小学英语学习(ELL)学生和评估人员组成的合作小组-组成的专业社区，以促进小学科学学习与语言发展的整合，并增加三藩市联合学区ELL学生接受严谨科学学习的机会。这一努力中的科学学习指的是让学生参与科学概念和调查技能的发展。这里的语言发展 指的是学生对科学语篇的形式、功能和词汇的理解。这项工作将通过四个具体目标实现：1)在科学与语言教学研究文献的基础上发展强有力的科学家-教师合作伙伴关系；2)为ELL学生提供进行严谨的科学学习和培养科学学术话语所需技能的机会；3)建立一个富有创造力的科学教育工作者社区，他们将制定一个可用于将科学学习与语言发展结合起来的目标框架和具体的课堂战略；4)根据Quattro框架的生成和在该项目期间收集的评估数据编写宣传材料，为全国学区和大学将科学与语言结合起来提供战略。这些具体目标将通过三个综合方案结构来实现：1)Quattro初级课程；2)Quattro科学俱乐部；3)Quattro专业社区。这些努力将在科学和语言学习的整合方面采用三项创新。首先，该项目将使大量教师、加州大学旧金山分校的科学家和临床医生结成伙伴关系，这是一种整合语言发展和科学学习的新方法。其次，这个科学教育工作者社区将开发一个以证据为基础的和可访问的框架，将科学和语言教学整合在小学课堂上。最后，拟议的努力将在一个大型的、多语言的城市学区进行。这些努力的记录、评估数据的分析以及在课堂上整合科学和语言学习的框架的生成将被汇编成传播材料，供美国各地的大学和学区使用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) of the UCSF, in strong collaboration with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), proposes a National Institutes of Health (NIH) SEPA, the Quattro Alliance for Science and Language Integration. Through the Quattro Alliance, SEP will both develop a professional development program in science and language and undertake a comprehensive research, documentation, and dissemination effort. Quattro will establish a professional community of four groups of participants - elementary school teachers, UCSF volunteers, elementary English language learning (ELL) students, and a collaborative of evaluators - to promote the integration of science learning and language development in elementary schools and to increase access to rigorous science learning for ELL students in SFUSD. Science learning in this effort refers to engaging students in the development of both scientific concepts and investigation skills. Language development here refers to student understanding of the forms, functions, and vocabulary of scientific discourse. This effort will be accomplished through four specific aims: 1) to develop strong scientist-teacher partnerships grounded in the research literature on science & language teaching and learning; 2) to provide ELL students with access to rigorous science learning and the development of the skills required for academic discourse in science; 3) to establish a generative community of science educators who will develop a Framework of goals and concrete classroom strategies that can be used to integrate science learning and language development; 4) to create dissemination materials based on the generation ofa Quattro Framework and evaluation data collected during the project to provide strategies for the integration of science and language to school districts and universities nationwide. These specific aims will be addressed through three integrated programmatic structures: 1) Quattro Beginning Coursework; 2) Quattro Science Clubs, and 3) the Quattro Professional Community. These efforts will employ three innovations in the integration of science and language learning. First, the project will engage significant numbers of both teachers and UCSF scientists and clinicians in partnership, a novel approach to the integration of language development and science learning. Second, this community of science educators will develop an evidence-based and accessible framework for integrating science and language teaching and learning in elementary school classrooms. Finally, the proposed effort will occur in a large, polylingual, urban school district. Documentation of the effort, analysis of evaluation data, and the generation of a framework for integrating science and language learning in the classroom will be assembled into dissemination materials designed for use by universities and school districts across the United States.