Center For Ocean Science Education Excellence - the Colorado Collaborative (CCC)

卓越海洋科学教育中心——科罗拉多合作中心（CCC）提议在科罗拉多大学博尔德分校（CU）和COSEE-West（南加州大学和加州大学洛杉矶分校）之间建立协同合作伙伴关系，将海洋科学教育带给内陆观众，使其与他们的生活息息相关，并提高海洋素养。通过结合各机构的智力优势，海洋科学中心将使非沿海地区的教师和学生接受高质量的海洋科学教育。该中心的标志将是海洋科学家系列讲座与夏季教师学院相结合，使区域海洋科学家参与海洋科学教育，以促进海洋科学研究与教育的结合。每年都会有不同的重点关注前沿海洋科学研究，如海气相互作用和区域气候；极地冰和海平面；还有海洋、气候和公共政策。气候合作委员会的主题将包括海洋管理和地球科学的系统方法。利用视频会议向科罗拉多州和洛杉矶联合学区的教师进行演讲，同时还开展了暑期教师交流项目，这将使来自不同地理和文化背景的教师进行互动，并建立起一种友谊，这种友谊将带到学生的课堂体验中。通过接触具有种族、社会经济和地理多样性的教师和学校，我们希望为代表性不足的人群增加参与海洋科学教育和考虑海洋科学职业的机会。这个项目的总体智力价值在于沿海和内陆研究科学家、课堂教师和外联教育工作者之间的合作，以培养具有海洋知识的学生，这些学生反过来将影响他们的社区并成为知情的选民。建议的伙伴关系在智力上的优点和预期的成果包括：提高科研人员和研究生的教学和沟通技巧；K-12学生谁是动力和兴奋的海洋科学，并接触到新的想法，资源和潜在的职业生涯；教师与科学家的互动将使教师能够将前沿研究纳入教学；科罗拉多州和加利福尼亚州教师之间的互动将促进全球对不同地区不断变化的水圈影响的认识，以及教师和科学家之间的思想交流和未来合作。对节目的评估将有助于阐明内陆受众的海洋科学教育需求，并将与COSEE网络分享。拟议计划的更广泛影响有三个方面。首先，我们将为科罗拉多州的一部分学区提供高质量的教师专业发展项目，这些学校是传统上服务不足的农村学校。这个项目将为那些很少有机会与科学家互动或获得海洋第一手知识的学生开辟新的途径——对一些人来说，海洋似乎离他们的家有几光年远。其次，我们计划将科学家讲座/暑期教师学院项目发展成为一个可持续的模式，科罗拉多大学的科学家可以在提出他们的研究计划的教育推广部分时使用。最后，COSEE-WEST和CCC之间的合作将产生一个更丰富的项目，结合每个组织的智力优势，并将产生超出当地学区的影响。

The Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence -- the Colorado Collaborative (CCC) proposes to develop a synergistic partnership between the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU) and COSEE-West (University of Southern California and University of CA at Los Angeles) to bring ocean sciences education to inland audiences, make it personally relevant to their lives and increase ocean literacy. By combining the intellectual strengths of each organization, CCC will expose non-coastal teachers and students to high quality ocean sciences education. The hallmark of CCC will be an ocean scientist lecture series combined with a Summer Teacher Institute that will engage regional ocean scientists in ocean sciences education to facilitate the integration of ocean sciences research and education. Each year will have a different focus on cutting edge ocean science research, such as air-sea interactions and regional climates; polar ice and sea level; and oceans, climate and public policy. Running themes of the CCC will include stewardship of the oceans and a systems approach to earth science. The use of videoconferencing to deliver presentations to teachers across Colorado and in the Los Angeles Unified School District, along with a summer teacher exchange program, will allow teachers from diverse geographic and cultural backgrounds to interact and develop a camaraderie that will carry to their students' classroom experiences. By reaching out to teachers and schools with ethnic, socioeconomic and geographic diversity, we hope to increase opportunities for under-represented populations to participate in ocean sciences education and consider careers ocean science. The overall intellectual merit of this project is in the value of collaboration between coastal and inland research scientists, classroom teachers and outreach educators to develop ocean literate students, who will in turn impact their community and become informed voters. The intellectual merits and anticipated outcomes of the proposed partnership include: enhanced teaching and communication skills of the research scientists and graduate students; K-12 students who are motivated and excited about ocean sciences and are exposed to new ideas, resources and potential careers; interaction of teachers with scientists will allow teachers to incorporate cutting edge research into their teaching; and interactions between teachers in Colorado and California will promote a global awareness of the impacts of a changing hydrosphere in different regions, as well as cross-fertilization of ideas and future collaborations among teachers and scientists. Evaluation of the program will help elucidate the ocean science education needs of inland audiences, which will be shared with the COSEE Network. The broader impacts of the proposed program are three-fold. First, we will deliver a high quality teacher professional development program to a segment of Colorado school districts, the rural schools, which are traditionally under-served. This program will open new pathways for students who rarely get a chance to interact with scientists or get first-hand knowledge of the ocean-- a realm that that to some may seem light-years away from their home. Second, we plan to develop the scientist lecture/Summer Teacher Institute program into a sustainable model CU scientists can plug into when proposing their education outreach portion of their research proposals. Finally, the partnership between COSEE-WEST and CCC will yield a richer program that combines the intellectual strengths of each organization and will have impact beyond their local school districts.