GK-12: NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education at the University of Maine

缅因州中部的八个地区包括佩诺布斯科特河教育伙伴关系（PREP）；其中四家，包括缅因印第安教育（Maine Indian Education），是目前一个小学-12年级项目的合作伙伴，与缅因大学（University of Maine）组成了教师团队，向小学-12年级的学生介绍化学、气候变化、海洋科学、分子生物学、地质学、食品科学和生态学等领域的实验、实地考察和讨论。程序是：a)帮助教师和学生达到缅因州立法规定的科学和技术标准（缅因州学习成果），b)加强研究员的沟通和教学技能，c)为教师提供专业发展，d)丰富K-12学生的科学知识，e)为3-11年级的孩子提供SMET专业人员的年轻男女榜样，f)加强GK-12科学教师和K-12学区之间的联系。K-12的学生们正在监测附近地区联邦野生动物保护区的水化学和物种多样性。这些共享的监视活动将整个项目范围内的类链接起来。在空间和时间上分布的数据使团队能够在通过视频会议交互的合作伙伴班级之间引入有趣的分析和讨论。每位研究员与两位PREP老师和一位来自缅因州东部（华盛顿和汉考克县）、缅因州西部（麦迪逊）或缅因州南部（达马里斯科塔，缅因州大学海洋科学实验室所在地）的老师密切合作。缅因州的ATM教室网络的力量正在被用来扩展研究员的角色模型，并向研究员介绍各种教学风格。该项目更广泛的影响包括加强科学背景和参加缅因州暑期科学营的合作教师。K-12学区的好处包括丰富了学生的学习，并获得了从显微镜到热循环器等设备，这些设备是实现学习成果目标所必需的，但许多地区缺乏这些设备。缅因大学受益于K-12学生，他们来到缅因大学，在科学方面做了更好的准备，并且正在履行其作为土地赠款/海洋赠款机构的使命，为缅因州和整个国家服务。题目：“GK-12：缅因大学K-12教育的研究生教学研究员”机构：缅因大学i /co-PI: Susan H. Brawley (PI), Barbara J. W. Cole, Susan J. Hunter, Stephen A. Norton, Michael Vayda, Ruey Yehle。奖励：$1,500,000（总额为3年）合作学区：Old Town， Brewer和Bucksport部门，学校工会#34，#87,#90,#91,#102，学区# 22,59,92研究员人数/年：10名研究生和2名本科生项目目标受众：3-11年级设置：城市，农村nsf支持的学科：科学与技术（包括数学）

Project Summary Eight districts in central Maine that comprise the Penobscot River Educational Partnership (PREP); four of them, including Maine Indian Education, partners in a current GK-12 project, have joined with the University of Maine to form Fellow-teacher teams to introduce K-12 students to experiments, field trips, and discussions in areas such as chemistry, climate change, marine sciences, molecular biology, geology, food sciences, and ecology. The program is: a) helping teachers and students reach the State of Maine's legislatively-mandated standards for Science & Technology (the Maine Learning Results), b) strengthening Fellows' communication and teaching skills, c) providing professional development for Teachers, d) enriching science for K-12 students, e) providing young male and female role models of SMET professionals to children in grades 3-11, and f) strengthening contacts between GK-12 science faculty and K-12 districts. The K-12 students are monitoring water chemistry and species diversity and abundance in cooperating federal wildlife refuges in areas near them. These shared monitoring activities link classes throughout the entire scope of the project. The spatially and temporally distributed data enables the teams to introduce interesting analyses and discussions across partner classes interacting through videoconferences. Each Fellow works intensively with two teachers in PREP and with a teacher from eastern Maine (Washington & Hancock Counties), western Maine (Madison), or southern Maine (Damariscotta, site of the University of Maine's marine sciences laboratory). The power of Maine's network of ATM classrooms, is being used to expand the Fellows' role modeling and introduce Fellows to a variety of teaching styles. The broader impacts of the project include strengthened backgrounds in science and attendance at the Maine summer Science Camp for the cooperating teachers. The K-12 districts' benefits include the enriched learning of their students and access to the equipment from microscopes to thermal cyclers that is necessary to meet the goals of the Learning Results, but which many districts lack. The University of Maine is benefiting from K-12 students who come to the University better prepared in science and is fulfilling its mission as a Land Grant/Sea Grant institution to serve both the state of Maine and the nation as a whole.Title: "GK-12: The University of Maine's Graduate Teaching Fellows' in K-12 Education"Institution: University of MainePI/co-PI: Susan H. Brawley (PI), Barbara J. W. Cole, Susan J. Hunter, Stephen A. Norton, Michael Vayda, Ruey Yehle.Award: $1,500,000 (total for 3 years)Partner School Districts: Old Town, Brewer and Bucksport Departments, School Unions #34, #87, #90, #91, #102, School Districts No. 22, 59, 92Number of Fellows/Year: 10 graduate and 2 undergraduate studentsTarget Audience of Project: Grades 3-11Setting: Urban, RuralNSF-supported Disciplines Involved: Science & Technology (including Mathematics)