An Interdisciplinary Urban Multicultural Teacher PreparationProgram in the Sciences: The Brooklyn Plan

纽约市立大学布鲁克林学院将开展一项提升小学教师科学准备的项目。该学院的所有学生，包括基础教育专业的学生，都被要求完成核心科学要求，包括四门两学分的科学课程，调查生物、化学、物理和地质领域。该项目将以这一核心为基础，开发五门额外的科学内容和教育学课程。这些课程将包括一门跨学科的自然科学课程和两对教育方法和科学实验室课程。跨学科课程将为职前教师提供更深入的“纯科学”学习经验，该课程涉及教师感兴趣的各种主题的科学学科。例如，一门跨学科课程可能会研究岩石和矿物的化学成分、地球的地质结构，以及涉及地震期间能量和波传播的物理学应用。教育方法/科学实验室配对课程将把选定的跨学科科学专题(如城市环境化学或生物能源)的实验室研究与各种科学探究过程以及学生的学习过程和态度联系起来。该项目还为教师提供研讨会和后续计划，这些教师将在该项目中担任学生的导师，该项目将注入城市多元文化的视角，并得到针对女性和少数民族学生的支持系统的支持。布鲁克林学院的费用分摊将占NSF捐款的33%。

Brooklyn College of the City University of New York will carry out a project to upgrade the science preparation of elementary teachers. All students at the College, including elementary education majors, are required to complete a core science requirement consisting of four 2- credit science courses surveying the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, and geology. The project will build upon this core to develop five additional courses in science content and pedagogy. The courses will consist of an Interdisciplinary Natural Science Course and two pairs of education methods and science laboratory courses. The Interdisciplinary Course will provide the preservice teacher with a more in-depth learning experience in "pure science" which cuts across the science disciplines involving a variety of topics of interest to the teacher. As an example, an Interdisciplinary Course might investigate the chemical composition of rocks and minerals, the geological structure of the earth, and applications from physics involving energy and wave propagation during earthquakes. The education methods/science laboratory pair courses will link laboratory study of selected interdisciplinary science topics, such as Urban Environmental Chemistry or Biological Energy, with an examination of the various scientific processes of inquiry and of the students' learning processes and attitudes. The project also provide workshops and follow-up programs for teachers who will serve as mentors for students in the program, and the program will be infused with an urban multicultural perspective and bolstered by a support system for women and minority students. Brooklyn College's cost- sharing will be 33% of NSF's contribution.