Interdisciplinary RET

该奖项旨在通过威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校地球科学和物理系为教师提供一个扩展的、独立的研究经验（RET）项目。拟议的RET计划的主要目标是寻求为在职科学教师提供丰富和支持的方法。将从威斯康星州东南部招募多达8名RET实习生（包括一名教师导师），该地区包括主要城市和人口中心以及该州主要的“内城”学区密尔沃基公立学校（MPS）。招聘对象仅限于合格的高中在职科学教师，在特殊情况下，仅限于中学。招聘将于2月下旬开始，分为三个阶段(1)项目前活动(2)主要项目活动，从6月开始，持续6-8周，在此期间，实习生将在UWM全职工作或与教师导师一起在远程地点工作，并参加专门为高中科学教育者设计的四门课程中的两门课程(3)秋季在UWM和实习生教室进行实施和评估活动。教师实习生将被期望拓宽和深化他们在地球科学和物理方面的知识，提高他们的科学素养，重新考虑他们如何教授传统的地球科学和物理课程，并利用他们在地球科学和/或物理系的经验来开发一个适合高中的原创教学项目。项目范围广泛，重点放在跨学科工作上，这将涉及两个系的教员的指导。RET实习生的具体研究、发展和研究参与领域可能包括引力波探测和微重力、高温超导、与水资源和水污染有关的环境问题、纳米技术、生物物理学、医学想象、前寒武纪岩石的构造地质学、密歇根湖岸线过程和沉积物、蒙大拿州的古环境研究以及最近熔岩流的岩石学。该计划包括通过在专业会议（如威斯康星州科学教师协会大会）上的演讲和在职机会，实施和传播实习生开发的教学项目。该RET网站由数学和物理科学理事会物理司和多学科活动办公室提供支持。

This award is for an expanded, stand-alone Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program through the Departments of Geosciences and Physics at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. The major goal of the proposed RET program is to seek ways of providing enrichment and support for in-service science teachers. Up to 8 RET interns (including a Teacher-mentor) will be recruited from SE Wisconsin, which contains the main urban and population centers and the state's principal "inner city" school district, Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS). Recruitment is limited to qualified, in-service science teachers in high schools or, exceptionally, middle schools. Recruitment will begin in late February for the three phases of (1) Pre-program activities (2) Main program activities, beginning in June and lasting 6-8 weeks, during which the interns will work full time at UWM or a distant site with their faculty mentors and enroll in two of four courses specifically designed for high school science educators (3) Implementation and assessment activities in the Fall at both UWM and the intern's classrooms. Teacher - interns will be expected to broaden and deepen their knowledge of geosciences and physics, increase their science literacy, reconsider how they teach the traditional geoscience and physics curricula, and use their experience in the Geoscience and/or Physics departments to develop an original teaching project suitable for high school. A comprehensive range of projects is available, and an emphasis has been placed on interdisciplinary work which will involve mentoring by faculty from both departments. Specific areas of study, development, and research participation for RET interns may include gravitational wave detection and microgravity, high temperature superconductivity, environmental issues connected with water resources and water pollution, nanotechnology, biophysics, medical imagining, structural geology in Precambrian rocks, Lake Michigan shoreline processes and deposits, paleoenvironment studies in Montana, and petrology of recent lava flows. The program includes the implementation and dissemination of the teaching projects developed by the interns through presentation(s) at a professional meeting such as the Wisconsin Society for Science Teachers Convention and in-service opportunities. This RET site is supported by the Division of Physics and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.