The AP Fellows Program: Enhancing Low-Income Urban Students' Participation and Achievement in Advanced Placement Courses

纽约州立大学研究生院正在与纽约市教育委员会布朗克斯高中督学、大学理事会和纽约科学院合作，以解决增加低收入和代表不足的少数族裔学生参加高中水平的数学和科学高级选修(AP)课程的必要性，特别是在城市学校。这不仅将对纽约市产生广泛影响，也将对其他渴望挑战所有学生的城市学区产生广泛影响。项目活动包括：对GK-12的STEM教育研究员进行培训，使他们能够作为AP研究员发挥新的作用；提高AP的科学和数学教师向城市学生教授AP课程的能力；以及开发一个可输出的模式，可供其他学区使用，以增加城市学生成功地参与AP课程。研究生院正在帮助20名科学和数学AP新教师或新手教师，两人都在接受暑期和学年强化培训和支持，包括大学理事会暑期学院，以及关于科学和数学内容、基于探究的教学、科学和数学标准、应用于格式化的教育技术、AP课程教学以及STEM的大专课程和就业机会等主题的研讨会。此外，在智力方面，AP教师和教授平行课程的大学教职员工正在共同努力，以改善AP课程的交付和与中学后环境的衔接。该项目部分由计算机和信息科学与工程局工程局提供资金支持。项目标题：AP研究员计划：促进低收入城市学生参与和取得进修课程的成就机构：纽约市立大学研究生院和大学中心PI/共同PI：来自CUNY研究生院的Theodore Brown和Victor S.Strozak合作学区：布朗克斯高中其他合作伙伴：大学理事会和纽约科学院基金：1,498,818美元/年：10名AP研究生研究员和20名AP科学和数学教师目标受众：城市学科：生物、生物化学、化学、计算机科学、地球和环境科学、工程和物理

CUNY Graduate School is partnering with the Bronx High School Superintendency of the New York City Board of Education, The College Board, and the New York Academy of Sciences to address the need to increase the participation of low-income and underrepresented minority students in high-school-level Advanced Placement (AP) courses in mathematics and sciences, particularly in urban schools. This will have broad impacts not only for New York City, but also for other urban school districts eager to challenge all of their students. Project activities include: training for GK-12 Fellows in STEM education so that they can play a new role as an AP Fellow; enhancing the abilities of AP teachers of science and mathematics to deliver AP courses to urban students; and developing an exportable model that can be used by other school districts for increasing the successful participation of urban students in AP courses. The Graduate Fellows are assisting 20 new or novice AP teachers of science and mathematics and both are receiving intensive summer and academic-year training and support including College Board Summer Institutes, and workshops on such topics as science and mathematics content, inquiry-based instruction, science and math standards, educational technology as applied to formatting, AP course instruction, and post-secondary programs and career opportunities in STEM. In addition, of intellectual merit, AP teachers and university faculty who teach parallel courses are working together toward improving AP course delivery and articulation with post-secondary settings. This project is partially supported by funds from the Directorate for Engineering from the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Title of Project: The AP Fellows Program: Enhancing Low-Income Urban Students Participation and Achievement in Advanced Placement CoursesInstitution: The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York PI/Co-PI: Theodore Brown and Victor S. Strozak, both from CUNY Graduate SchoolPartner School District: Bronx High School Other Partners: The College Board and the New York Academy of SciencesFunding: $1,498,818# of Fellows/year: 10 AP Graduate Fellows and 20 AP Science and Math TeachersTarget Audience: High School Setting: UrbanDisciplines: Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Engineering, and Physics