title: Moving beyond GK-12.
abstract: The National Science Foundation GK-12 program has made more than 300 awards to universities, supported thousands of graduate student trainees, and impacted thousands of K-12 students and teachers. The goals of the current study were to determine the number of sustained GK-12 programs that follow the original GK-12 structure of placing graduate students into classrooms and to propose models for universities with current funding or universities interested in starting a program. Results from surveys, literature reviews, and Internet searches of programs funded between 1999 and 2008 indicated that 19 of 188 funded sites had sustained in-classroom programs. Three distinct models emerged from an analysis of these programs: a full-stipend model, in which graduate fellows worked with partner teachers in a K-12 classroom for 2 d/wk; a supplemental stipend model in which fellows worked with teachers for 1 d/wk; and a service-learning model, in which in-classroom activity was integrated into university academic coursework. Based on these results, potential models for sustainability and replication are suggested, including establishment of formal collaborations between sustained GK-12 programs and universities interested in starting in-classroom programs; development of a new Teaching Experience for Fellows program; and integration of supplemental fellow stipends into grant broader-impact sections.
authors.affiliation: Division of Science and Technology, Southern Vermont College, Bennington, VT 05201, USA.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ufnar
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuner
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Shepherd
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012586:Science / Q000193:education*; D013334:Students; D013663:Teaching; D014146:Training Support; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities