Partnership for Student Success in Science (PS3)

由九个硅谷学区和圣何塞州立大学（SJSU）的工程和教育学院组成的合作伙伴关系正在采取区域性的方法，通过在主要城市地区建立机构能力，教学质量和学生成绩来改善科学教育。 创建可持续的机构变革，以支持高质量的科学教育。 科学教学和学习，等级K-8，是通过一个连续的大学预科准备，新教师入职，持续在职和领导力的发展超过1300个预科学生和在职教师改进。 建立一个跨越职业生涯的专业发展模式，其中包括丰富的内容和方法讲习班，由区域领导人提供的专业发展，保留了一个准备充分的K-8科学教师池。小学和中学生体验示范性的探究和实验室为基础的课程，适当地与数学，识字和技术，从而取得更高的成就。工程系教师在中学担任顾问。 虽然他们贡献的奖学金和内容背景，他们也通过查看服务于不同学生需求的各种教学策略学习。 本科工程教育通过工程师和教师之间的密切合作得到改善。圣何塞州立大学的职前教育随着新的小学教育硕士学位的发展而得到改善，该学位以科学为重点，应该很容易运输。

The Partnership consisting of nine Silicon Valley school districts and San Jose State University's (SJSU) Colleges of Engineering and Education is taking a regional approach to improving science education by building institutional capacity, instructional quality, and student achievement in a major urban region. Sustainable institutional changes are created to support high quality science education. Science teaching and learning, grades K-8, is improved through a continuum of university preservice preparation, new teacher induction, on-going inservice and leadership development for over 1300 preservice students and inservice teachers. Establishing a career spanning professional development model, which includes rich content and methodology workshops, provided by regional leaders for professional development, retains a pool of well-prepared K-8 science teachers. Elementary and middle school students experience exemplary inquiry and laboratory-based lessons linked appropriately to math, literacy, and technology resulting in higher achievement. Engineering faculty devote time as consultants in middle schools. While they contribute scholarship and content background they also learn by viewing the variety of teaching strategies that serve diverse student needs. Undergraduate engineering education is improved through close collaboration between engineers and teachers. Preservice instruction at San Jose State University is improved with the development of a new MA degree in Elementary Education with a focus on science, which should be readily transportable.