Track 1, GK-12: National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellows Program at Louisiana State University

[0440490]该项目的目的是(1)更好地为来自规模庞大且大多服务不足的EBRPSS学校系统的学生做好准备，以达到大学STEM学科的高学术标准，(2)培养大学生对高质量STEM教学方法的欣赏和能力，(3)获得美国国家科学基金会STEM教师培训和R. Noyce奖学金项目支持的高素质美国研究博士学位，为美国高校未来的中学数学和科学教师的内容导向培训做好充分准备；路易斯安那州立大学新设计的二级STEM认证项目具有广泛的实地准备和大学教师之间的广泛合作，以及来自EBRPSS的高素质STEM导师骨干。在这个项目中，导师每年帮助确定八对数学和科学教师，他们欢迎GK-12研究员的支持和提供的专业发展机会。每对教师在整个学年中与一名研究生和两名本科生合作。研究生每周花10个小时为两位老师提供直接帮助，并留出时间完成其他GK-12任务，例如演示。路易斯安那州立大学车轮上的科学项目中的探索工具包。本科生研究员在他们组织的数学实验室中提供广泛的教学支持。该提案的智力价值基于参与该项目的STEM研究人员的丰富经验，路易斯安那州立大学提供的领导和基础设施的广度和深度，以及大学教职员工和一群敬业的初中和高中导师之间的牢固伙伴关系。该项目允许测试一种模式，以提高一所大型州立大学本科和研究生教育的范围和质量，帮助改善一个学区的数学和科学教育，该学区体现了全国许多学区面临的所有挑战，包括表现不佳的学校、大量少数民族人口和经济状况不佳的学生比例很高的学校。更广泛的影响包括教师对K-12数学和科学教育的STEM学术部门的兴趣增加，高中学生进入STEM学科的招聘率增加，特别是在少数民族和/或女性中，以及STEM学科强大的研究博士人数的增加，这些人更有能力为未来的中学教师和在职中学教师提供基于内容的指导。通过仔细记录和传播项目结果，该项目将在全国范围内得到应用，特别是在靠近学校系统的研究型大学，这些学校系统受到学生表现不佳和缺乏提供具有挑战性的STEM课程的学生的困扰。

0440490The project aims are (1) to better prepare students from the large and mostly underserved EBRPSS school system to meet high academic standards in collegiate STEM disciplines, (2) to foster the appreciation and capability of college students for high quality STEM teaching methods, and (3) to graduate high-caliber U.S. research doctorates who are well-prepared for content-oriented training of prospective secondary math and science teachers at colleges and universities in the U.S. Supported by NSF's STEM Teacher Preparation and R. Noyce Scholarship Programs, LSU's newly redesigned secondary STEM certification program features extensive field based preparation and broad-based collaboration among university faculty and a cadre of highly qualified STEM mentor teachers from EBRPSS. In this project, the mentor teachers help to identify each year eight pairs of math and science teachers who welcome the support of GK-12 Fellows and the professional development opportunities provided. Each teacher pair works with a Graduate Fellow and two Undergraduate Fellows throughout the academic year. Graduate Fellows spend ten hours a week providing direct assistance to the two teachers, with time given off for assignments for other GK-12 Tasks, such as presentations of .Discovery Kits within the LSU Science on Wheels Program. Undergraduate Fellows provide a wide range of instructional support in Math Labs they organize. The intellectual merit of the proposal is based upon the extensive experience of the participating STEM investigators in the project, the breadth and depth of leadership and infrastructure provided by LSU, and the strong partnership among the university faculty and a corps of dedicated middle and high school mentor teachers. The project allows the testing of a model to enhance the scope and quality of undergraduate and graduate education at a large state university by helping to improve mathematics and science education in a school district that embodies all of the challenges that are faced by many districts nationwide, including low performing schools, a large minority population, and schools with a high proportion of economically disadvantaged students.The broader impacts include an increased interest of faculty in academic STEM departments in K-12 math and science education, an increase in recruitment rates of high school students into STEM disciplines, especially among minorities and/or women, and an increase in the number of strong research-doctorates in STEM disciplines that are better prepared to provide content-based instruction to prospective secondary teachers as well as to in-service secondary teachers. Through careful documentation and dissemination of the project results, this project will have applications across the country, particularly in research universities that are in close proximity to school systems plagued by low student performance and a dearth of students being offered challenging STEM curricula.