CCD: Linking Undergraduate Geoscience Research Programs and Teacher Education Programs

在研究型大学，宣布主修地球科学的学生通常没有资格参加国家认证所需的教育课程。 为了报名参加教育课程，以满足国家教育部对教学证书的课程要求，这些学生必须放弃他们的地球科学专业，并宣布教育专业。参加教育课程的学生经常面临类似的课程，因为他们无法获得高级科学专业课程。 因此，大学往往培养出教育学背景较弱的理科专业学生，或地球科学背景较弱的教育专业学生。 此外，很少有集体大学教师的关注支付大学预科教师的准备。 在国家科学标准的推动下，我们学校对地球科学教师的需求远远超过了现有的巨大数量。 在这个项目中，美国地球物理联盟汇集了来自四所高等教育机构的地球科学和教育教师以及适当的管理人员，旨在寻找和开发可行的本科课程，从而为地球科学学生提供教师认证。 这四个机构及其制定和实施的方案将成为其他机构的典范。 这一举措将提出一个四年制，以科学为基础的主要可以有效地整合专业教育组成部分的方式。 这一举措，一个随附的报告，和特殊的教师准备会议（S），在美国地球物理联盟的年会上举行，将作为一个重要的实施模式，为其他机构的工作开发类似的程序。

In research universities students who have declared a major in one of the geosciences are often ineligible to take the education courses necessary for state certification. In order to enroll in education courses to meet the state's Department of Education course requirements for a teaching credential, these students must drop their geoscience major and declare an education major. Students enrolled in education programs often face a similar program in that advanced science major course work is not available to them. As a result, universities too often produce science majors with a weak pedagogical background, or education majors with a weak geoscience background. Moreover, there is little collective university faculty attention paid to pre-college teacher preparation. Spurred on by the National Science Standards, the demand for earth science teachers in our schools far exceeds the number of available enormous. In this project, The American Geophysical Union, brings together geoscience and education faculty, and appropriate administrators, from four higher education institutions for the purposes of finding and developing a viable undergraduate curriculum that will lead to teacher certification for geoscience students. These four institutions, and the programs they develop and implement, will serve as models for other institutions. This initiative will present ways in which a four-year, science- based major can effectively integrate a professional education component. This initiative, an accompanying report, and special teacher preparation session(s), held at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, will serve as an important implementation model for other institutions working to develop similar programs.