CalTeach: Physical Sciences and Engineering

该项目建立了CalTeach：物理科学与工程(CTPSE)。该项目团队包括来自工程学院以及化学、生物化学、物理和教育系的教员；来自需求旺盛的圣巴巴拉联合学区两所STEM学院的高中教师和校长；以及来自UCSB数学、工程和科学成就计划、Dos Pueblos工程学院基金会和圣巴巴拉县PreK-20 STEM委员会的项目主任和社区领袖。该项目正在培养24名高素质和多样化的物理和化学教师。这些教师正在实施国家研究委员会在高需求中学的K-12科学教育框架，特别是向服务不足的学生教授科学和工程的核心思想和实践。项目团队正在跟踪教师学者的职业轨迹，以评估他们作为高需求学校初任教师的效率，并根据评估结果加强CTPSE计划组成部分。该项目的更广泛影响包括将UCSB培养的训练有素、积极性高的物理和化学教师增加140%。在培养科学教师将工程和科学结合起来，并积极让学生参与解决工程问题和调查自然现象方面，已发现有效的战略正在广泛传播。CTPSE项目正在改善加利福尼亚州未得到充分服务的学生的化学和物理教学，为更多的拉丁裔、低收入学生和英语学习者提供获得优质和公平的物理教育的机会。

This project establishes CalTeach:Physical Sciences and Engineering (CTPSE). The project team includes faculty from the College of Engineering as well as the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics, and Education; high school teachers and principals from two STEM Academies in the high-needs Santa Barbara Unified School District; and program directors and community leaders from UCSB's Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement program, the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Foundation, and the Santa Barbara County PreK-20 STEM Council. The project is preparing 24 highly qualified and diverse physics and chemistry teachers. These teachers are implementing the National Research Council's Framework for K-12 Science Education in high-needs secondary schools, specifically, to teach science and engineering core ideas and practices to underserved students. The project team is tracking the professional trajectories of the Teacher Scholars to evaluate their effectiveness as beginning teachers in high-needs schools and to strengthen CTPSE program components in light of evaluation findings.The broader impacts of this project include increasing UCSB's production of thoroughly trained, highly motivated physics and chemistry teachers by 140%. Strategies found effective in preparing science teachers to integrate engineering and science, and to actively engage students in solving engineering problems and investigating natural phenomena are being widely disseminated. The CTPSE project is improving the teaching of chemistry and physics to underserved students in California, providing more Latinos/as, low-income students, and English learners with access to an excellent and equitable physical science education.