Science Club Summer Camp: Training Teachers and Youth in Authentic STEM Practice

 描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的目的是设计，实施和评估一个新的，以实践为基础的教师专业发展计划，小学教师，对齐最近发布的下一代科学标准（NGSS）。它旨在解决在小学教师的科学培训，威胁到NGSS的有效实施和中断早期青年科学技能的发展，众所周知的差距。鉴于芝加哥公立学校（CPS）小学课堂缺乏高质量的科学教学，我们提出，培养未来STEM和生物医学人才的最佳方法是帮助改善K-5水平的NGSS对齐教学。科学俱乐部夏令营（SC2）采用综合方法来培训CPS教师和青少年的科学性质。科学家，硕士科学教师，NGSS专家和青年发展工作人员组成的跨学科团队将合作，将NGSS学科核心思想（DCIs），横切概念以及科学和工程实践纳入校外时间学习夏令营和学年教学。计划参与者还将通过与实践科学家的互动，参观研究实验室和调查健康现象了解NGSS与健康和生物医学的联系拟议的计划借鉴了教师专业发展和青年指导的最佳实践，为CPS的三年级教师和青年提供夏季和学年支持。具体而言，我们的目标是：1）设计和实施一个密集的小学教师专业发展计划，包括夏季和学年的支持，2）建立一个夏季科学夏令营计划，称为SC2儿童，在芝加哥的男孩和女孩俱乐部，和3）评估和传播最佳做法，在三年级教室实施NGSS在该计划的过程中，我们将对64名教师和2000多名青年进行真正的科学和健康实践培训。一个多方面的评估计划将评估我们的计划对教师的信念，知识和NGSS的理解的影响，以及他们的培训结果在多大程度上改变了他们的教学实践。另外我们 将帮助教师设计关键的NGSS对齐的评估工具，作为学生学习的措施。这些工具将为NGSS对齐教学和更深入的学生学习之间的联系提供早期证据。除了解决对NGSS对齐教师专业发展战略和高质量的夏季学习机会的迫切需要为弱势青年，这是我们的期望，这种“两用”的方法将作为未来的教师专业发展计划，寻求桥梁学习在正式和非正式的环境，加强学术社区的伙伴关系的模式。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposal is to design, implement, and evaluate a novel, practicum-based teacher professional development program for elementary school teachers, aligned to the recently released Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). It seeks to address well-described gaps in the scientific training of elementary teachers that threaten the effective implementation of NGSS and interrupt development of early youth science skills. Given the lack of quality science instruction in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) elementary classrooms, we offer that the best way to prepare a future STEM and biomedical workforce is to help improve NGSS-aligned instruction at the K-5 level. Science Club Summer Camp (SC2) uses an integrated approach to train CPS teachers and youth in the nature of science. An interdisciplinary team of scientists, master science teachers, NGSS experts, and youth development staff will collaborate to incorporate the NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs), Crosscutting Concepts, and science and engineering practices into both out-of-school time learning at a summer camp and academic year instruction. Program participants will also learn about NGSS connections to health and biomedicine through interactions with practicing scientists, visits to research labs, and inquiry into health phenomena The proposed program draws on best practices for teacher professional development and youth mentoring to provide both summer and academic year support for third grade teachers and youth in CPS. Specifically, we aim to: 1) Design and implement an intensive elementary teacher professional development program, incorporating both summer and academic year support, 2) establish a summer science camp program, called SC2 Kids, at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago, and 3) evaluate and disseminate best practices for implementation of NGSS in third grade classrooms Over the course of the program, we will train 64 teachers and more than 2000 youth in authentic science and health practices. A multi-faceted evaluation plan will assess the impact of our program on teacher beliefs, knowledge, and understanding of the NGSS, and the degree to which their training results in changes to their instructional practice. Additionally, we will help teachers design critical NGSS-aligned assessment tools as measures of student learning. These instruments will provide early evidence on the connections between NGSS-aligned instruction and deeper student learning. In addition to addressing the acute need for NGSS-aligned teacher professional development strategies and high quality summer learning opportunities for disadvantages youth, it is our expectation that this "dual use" approach will serve as a model for future teacher professional development programs that seek to bridge learning in formal and informal environments and strengthen academic-community partnerships.