Collaborative Project: The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics/Huston-Tillotson College Geosciences Diversity Project

Track 1: utg /休斯顿-蒂洛森地球科学多样性项目这个概念验证项目正在休斯顿-蒂洛森大学（HT）建立地球科学教育能力。它还解决了对少数民族教师职前培训的迫切需求，使用高质量，严格的地球科学材料，适用于德克萨斯州的高中水平。该项目的职前教师部分包括在2005-06学年期间准备和讲授地质、气象和海洋学（GMO）专题课程，该课程将用于获得地球科学高中教师证书。这门课程为这些职前教师指导高中转基因生物课程做准备，这门课程是符合高中毕业科学要求的科目之一。该项目的9-12年级学生教育部分扩展了HT的奥斯汀大一预科工程项目（AusPrEP），这是一个正在进行的沉浸式数学/科学暑期项目，包括以地球科学为中心的第四年。在AusPrEP的第四年，学生将学习所有的高中转基因生物课程，并获得一个高中科学学分。完成职前教师部分的两名HT本科生作为项目助理直接与四年级的AusPrEP学生一起工作，提供指导和辅导，以及技术和实验室协助。该项目提高了非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人在高中生和教师层面对地球科学的参与。

Track 1: UTIG/Huston-Tillotson Geosciences Diversity ProjectThis proof-of-concept project is establishing geoscience educational capability at Huston-Tillotson University (HT). It also addresses the critical need for pre-service minority teacher training using high quality, rigorous Earth science materials for high school level in Texas. The HT Pre-service Teacher Component of the project consists of preparation and delivery during the 2005-06 academic year of a special topics course in Geology, Meteorology, and Oceanography (GMO) that counts towards high-school teacher certification in Earth Science. This HT course prepares these pre-service teachers to instruct a high school GMO course, one of the subjects meeting the science requirements for high school graduation. The 9-12 Student Education Component of the project expands HT's Austin Prefreshman Engineering Program (AusPrEP), an ongoing immersive math/science summer program, to include a fourth year centered on the geosciences. Students in the fourth year of AusPrEP cover all of the high school GMO course and receive one high school science credit. Two of the HT undergraduate students who completed the Pre-Service Teacher Component work directly with the fourth year AusPrEP students as Program Assistants, providing mentoring and tutoring, as well as technical and laboratory assistance. This project increases the participation of African Americans and Hispanic Americans in the geosciences at both the high school student and teacher levels.