Building Hybrid Communities of Practice to Benefit Urban Geoscience Students through Sustained Geoscientist-Teacher Partnerships

在纽约市公园和娱乐部、纽约港国家公园和美国自然历史博物馆的合作下，CUNY Brooklyn College正在为高中地球科学教师提供基于社区的研究经验，使他们更好地准备让学生参与探究，解决当地环境中的现实世界问题。该项目正在为地球科学教师(RET)开发一个由3门课程组成的系列本地研究经验课程，并将其整合到一个教学硕士课程中。这一混合课程提供了一条可持续的专业发展途径，以提高教育工作者在地球科学方面的专门知识，超越掌握地球科学的内容，并通向掌握地球科学的探究。项目活动旨在创建一个地方地球科学研究实践社区，并为寻求使用探究式地球科学教学的教师提供支持。在整个项目中注入职业信息的目的是帮助教师支持纽约市庞大而多样化的高中生群体，他们可能会受到启发，在高中学习地球科学，并在过渡到大学时主修地球科学。

With the cooperation of the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, the National Parks of New York Harbor, and the American Museum of Natural History, CUNY Brooklyn College is providing high school Earth Science teachers with community-based research experiences that better prepare them to engage their students in inquiry that addresses real-world problems in their local environment. The project is developing a 3-course series of local Research Experiences for Earth Science Teachers (RET) courses that are integrated into a Master of Arts of Teaching program. This hybrid curriculum provides a sustainable professional development route to advance educator expertise in Earth Science beyond mastery of geoscience content and towards mastery of geoscience inquiry. Project activities are designed to create a community of local geoscience research practice and provide support for teachers seeking to use inquiry-based Earth Science instruction. Infusion of career information throughout the program is intended to help teachers support the large and diverse population of high school students in New York City who may be inspired to study Earth Science in high schools, and to major in geoscience when they transition to college.