Teacher Quality and Student Success: Testing the K20 Science Professional Development Model (K20 Science) for Rural Science Teachers

俄克拉荷马大学的K20中心是全校改革的领导者。十多年来，K20中心主要利用私人基金会的资助，首先与学校管理人员合作，然后与全州的所有学校合作，推广了10所高成就学校的理想。21世纪国家数学和科学教学委员会确定需要一个持续的系统来提高学生对科学和技术进步的知识和兴趣，其目标和行动如下：暑期学院、探究小组、领导力培训和互联网门户。通过早期和持续的项目，K20中心改善了学校的领导能力和学校系统中的技术整合。近年来，K20中心在其项目中增加了更多直接的课堂干预和以内容和探究为基础的专业发展。通过这一提议，K20中心寻求扩大现有的项目，并对K20 SCIENCE专业发展模型进行实证测试，该模型旨在解决美国原住民人口众多的小型偏远农村学校的教师质量和学生成功问题。K20科学模式支持国家委员会的目标，通过真实的研究经验，课程研究和专业学习社区（PLC），网络，互联网门户和技术支持农村科学教师广泛的专业发展，提高科学教师的知识。经过实地测试、综合评估和相应的修订后，K20 SCIENCE模式将通过专业会议和出版物，包括通过全国农村教育协会，在地区、国家和国际上进行共享，以协助在其他农村环境中推广。智力价值：该项目将使用量化措施来记录教师参与暑期研究所和随后的专业发展支持干预措施后教师内容知识、课堂实践、教学效果、PLC开发、同伴指导和指导、教师质量和学生成功方面的变化。该模型的每一个独立部分都是基于在理论或实践中对学习产生积极影响的研究；然而，没有一篇文章可以单独提供全面的科学教育改革。K20 SCIENCE模式将教师的内容知识和探究经验，转移到课堂实践中，并支持专业创新和互动教学，成为一个单一的，可测试的程序。更广泛的影响：由500所农村学校组成的K20中心网络为农村教育创新的设计、实施、测试、修订和分享成果提供了广泛的基础设施。俄克拉荷马州的学校为多样化的K-12学生提供服务，这些学生的贫困率是全国平均水平的三倍多。近25%的俄克拉何马州学生在9年级到12年级之间辍学，太多的俄克拉何马州高中生未能学习更高水平的科学知识，而这些知识将导致他们上大学和从事科技职业。尤其弱势的是印第安人。K20 SCIENCE将直接影响为不同人群服务的低收入农村学校。

The University of Oklahoma's K20 Center is a leader in school-wide reform. For over ten years, using primarily private foundation grants, K20 Center has promoted the 10 IDEALS of High Achieving Schools by working first with school administrators and then whole schools from across the state. The National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century established the need of an on-going system to improve student knowledge and interest for scientific and technological advances with the following goals and actions: summer institutes, inquiry groups, leadership training, and Internet portals. Through its early, and continuing programs, K20 Center improved school leadership and technology integration in school systems. In recent years the K20 Center added more direct classroom interventions and content- and inquiry-based professional development to its programs. With this proposal, the K20 Center seeks to expand current programs and empirically test the K20 SCIENCE Professional Development Model addressing teacher quality and student success in small, isolated rural schools with high Native American population. The K20 SCIENCE Model supports the National Commission's goals by improving science teacher knowledge through authentic research experiences, lesson study, and professional learning communities (PLC) with networking, Internet portals, and technological support for extensive professional development of rural science teachers. After field-testing, comprehensive evaluation, and commensurate revisions, the K20 SCIENCE model will be shared regionally, nationally and internationally through professional meetings and publications, including through the National Rural Education Association to assist replication in other rural contexts. Intellectual Merit: This project will use quantitative measures to document changes in teacher content knowledge, classroom practices, efficacy of teaching, PLC development, peer coaching and mentoring, teacher quality and student success following teacher participation in a Summer Research Institute and subsequent professional development support interventions. Each separate piece of the model is based on research showing positive impact on learning in theory or in practice; yet no piece can stand alone to provide comprehensive reform of science education. The K20 SCIENCE model brings teacher content knowledge and inquiry experience, transfer to classroom practice, and support for professional innovation and interactive instruction into a single, testable program .Broader Impacts: The K20 Center network of 500 rural schools provides an extensive infrastructure from which to design, implement, test, revise, and share results of rural education innovation. Oklahoma's schools serve a diverse K-12 student population that has more than three times the poverty rate of the national average . Nearly 25% of Oklahoma students drop out of high school between 9th and 12th grade, and too many Oklahoma high school students fail to learn higher levels of science that lead to college graduation and scientific and technical careers. Particularly disadvantaged are Native Americans. K20 SCIENCE will directly impact low-income, rural schools serving diverse populations.