Graduate Teaching Fellows in Ethnically Diverse Classrooms: A Collaborative Model for Impacting Science Teaching and Learning in Boulder County, Colorado Public Schools

摘要提案：# 0742544PI: Jeffrey KidderInstitution: University of Colorado-Boulder标题：种族多样化教室中的研究生教学研究员：影响科罗拉多州Boulder县公立学校科学与学习的协作模式生物、化学、计算机科学、环境科学、地质、数学、物理建议项目的主题主要是知识转移和课程发展与丰富。该项目将重点关注针对中小学生的自由/开源软件科学工具包的有效交付、整合和扩展。生态/计算科学主题被整合到基本的自由/开源软件模块中；在中学阶段，研究员将与课堂教师合作，影响课堂上的科学教学。同学们，在课堂外？参与是通过非正式的科学俱乐部，以研究项目为重点。预计这些研究员将在该计划中服务两年。一年在小学阶段，一年在中学阶段，这样每个教师都将有两个阶段的经验。这个项目的智力价值在于大学科学内容专家、探究性科学教育者和课堂教师在改变大学和学校文化以促进科学教育和提高学生成绩方面的合作价值。计划的预期成果包括：提高学员的教学和沟通技巧；培养对科学、数学、工程和技术（SMET）感兴趣的学生，增加他们对SMET学科的知识和理解；教师与研究生合作，为学生设计学习体验，并将新的思想、活动和资源纳入他们的课程；教师有机会学习实践、探究式的教学方法；以及发展一种与全国传播相关且有价值的学校-学院合作模式。拟议项目的更广泛影响将是提供一种学校-学院合作模式，这种模式具有在整个学区和全国学区复制的价值。

Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 (GK-12)AbstractProposal: # 0742544PI: Jeffrey KidderInstitution: University of Colorado-BoulderTitle: Graduate Teaching Fellows in Ethnically Diverse Classrooms: A Collaborative Model for Impacting Science and Learning in Boulder County, Colorado Public SchoolsNSF Supported STEM Disciplines : Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Geology, Mathematics, PhysicsThe proposed project falls largely under the thematic heading of knowledge transfer and curriculum development and enrichment. The project will focus on effective delivery, integration, and extension of FOSS science kits targeted to elementary and middle school students. An ecology/computing science theme is integrated into the elementary FOSS modules; at the middle-school level, fellows will collaborate with classroom teachers to impact science teaching and learning in the classroom. Outside of the classroom fellows? engagement is throughinformal science clubs with a research project focus. It is expected that the fellows will serve two years in the project ? one year at the elementary level and one at middle school level, so that each teaching fellow will have experience at both levels.Intellectual merit of this project is in the value of a collaboration involving university science content specialists, inquiry-based science educators, and classroom teachers in changing the university and school culture for science education and for promoting increased student achievement.Anticipated outcomes of the proposed program include: enhanced teaching and communication skills of the fellows; development of students who are motivated and excited about science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) with increased knowledge and understanding of SMET subjects; collaboration of teachers with graduate students in designing learning experiences for their students and incorporating new ideas, activities, and resources into their curricula; opportunities for teachers to learn hands-on, inquiry-based approaches to teaching; and the development of a model of school-college collaboration that has relevance and merit for national dissemination..The broader impacts of the proposed project will be to provide a model of school-college collaboration that has merit for replication throughout the school district and in school districts across the nation.