Collaborative Research: Strengthening Pathways to Diversity through Professional Development for Minority-Serving K-12 Science Educators--Expanding GeoFORCE Texas

该项目将扩大地球科学的杰克逊学院在得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（JSG）在教育推广到K-12社区的努力，通过提供高质量的地球科学专业发展，以8日至12日年级的少数民族和少数民族服务的科学教师和教师导师在整个得克萨斯州。总体项目目标是（1）为少数民族和少数民族教师制定严格的地球科学专业发展计划，为新的德克萨斯州高中水平的地球和空间科学课程提供指导，该课程可以作为其他州的模式;（2）确保所有教师参与者都能为新的顶点课程打下基础，帮助这门课程保持核心学分的可行选择，以满足第四科学;以及（3）支持来自德克萨斯州西南部JSG GeoFORCE计划教育工作者网络的教师，他们接受了这一专业发展，以在他们的学校实施改进的地球科学教学。自己的教室。 专业发展将通过几项活动提供，包括：1）专业发展学院（PDA），与德克萨斯州地区科学教学卓越合作组织（TRC）合作，每学期培训70名教师导师，他们将在35个地区合作组织中的每一个培训25名教师。8个不同的PDA，每个PDA有70名教师。2）为25名积极性很高的真相与和解委员会教师导师举办暑期班。这些研讨会将包括两个为期两周的会议。他们将培训教师导师，以培训其他教师在德克萨斯州高中实施新的地球和空间科学课程。两个两年制学院，每个25名学生。3）GeoFORCE教育学院。与暑期学院类似，这些学院旨在帮助来自德克萨斯州西南部的教师，他们是GeoFORCE网络的一部分，以实施新的德克萨斯地球和空间科学课程。与其将这些教师带到奥斯汀，不如以8个专业发展讲习班的形式为他们提供培训。4）在线学习社区，旨在使教师在培训期间和培训后与辅导员和其他教师保持联系，并分享最佳做法和新信息。（2组35个真相与和解委员会教师小组，代表35个区域合作机构，或70名教师指导员，4年以上= 140名教师导师）和50名GeoFORCE西南德克萨斯州教师（2组25名教师，4年以上= 50名教师）。每一个两人的真相与和解委员会教师-导师小组预计每年将增加25名教师，总共增加3 500名受该项目直接影响的真相与和解委员会教师。

The project will expand The Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin (JSG) efforts in educational outreach to the K-12 community by providing high quality geoscience professional development to 8th to 12th grade minority and minority-serving science teachers and teacher mentors throughout Texas. The overarching project goals are to (1) develop a rigorous geoscience professional development program for minority and minority-serving teachers for a new Texas high-school level capstone Earth and Space Science course that can serve as model for other states; (2) ensure that all teacher participants attain the basic foundation for the new capstone course, helping this course to remain a viable option for core credit to satisfy the fourth science; and (3) support teachers from the JSG GeoFORCE program's network of educators in southwest Texas who receive this professional development to implement improved Earth science instruction in their own classrooms. Professional development will be provided through several activities, including:1) Professional Development Academies (PDA's), with The Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science Teaching (TRC), to train 70 teacher mentors each semester, who will in turn bring the training to 25 teachers at each of the 35 Regional Collaboratives. Eight different PDA's of 70 teachers each.2) Summer Institutes for 25 highly motivated TRC teacher mentors. These institutes will comprise two 2-week sessions. They will train the teacher mentors to train other teachers to implement the new Earth and Space Science course in Texas high schools. Two 2-year institutes of 25 students each.3) GeoFORCE Education Academies. Similar to the summer institute, these academies are designed to help teachers from SW Texas who are part of the GeoFORCE network to implement the new Texas Earth and Space Science course. Rather than bring these teachers to Austin, training will be brought to them in the form of 8 professional development workshops. Two 8-unit academies will serve 25 participants each.4) On-Line Learning Communities, designed to keep the teachers in contact with facilitators and fellow teachers between and after training, and to share best practices, and new information.The project will directly impact 140 TRC teacher mentors (2 cohorts of 35 TRC teacher teams representing each of the 35 Regional Collaboratives, or 70 teacher mentors, over 4 years = 140 teacher mentors) and 50 GeoFORCE southwest Texas teachers (2 cohorts of 25 teachers over 4 years = 50 teachers). Each two-person TRC teacher-mentor team is expected to reach 25 additional teachers each year, for a total of 3,500 additional TRC teachers directly impacted by the project.