Turning Towards Greater Equity and Access with Online Teacher Professional Development.
Turning Towards Greater Equity and Access with Online Teacher Professional Development.
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10.15695/jstem/v4i3.05
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2021-08
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获得专业发展机会促进了教师和学生的公平。我们确定了时间，距离和儿童保育需求作为教师寻求参加我们的会议研讨会和面对面的专业发展机会的限制因素。因此，就在COVID-19大流行和迅速转向在线学习的几个月前，基因组科学教育推广（GSEO）计划过渡到NIGMS赞助的SEPA赠款基因环境和我网络（GEMNet）计划的在线专业发展。我们的计划是很好的定位，以支持教师在我们的网络提供在线PD，包括技术支持和快速访问我们的在线课程用于远程学习。在这里，我们分享了创建在线PD以及将我们的材料转换为数字环境的过程。此外，我们提供了调查数据和从2020年1月至2021年1月的八次在线PD培训中吸取的经验教训，包括健康/家庭和消费科学教师（n=20）和生物学教师（n=23）。值得注意的是，教师提供了反馈，肯定了我们提供在线PD的最初原因，并感谢在一个极其困难的时刻成为一名教育工作者的支持。我们的研究结果支持需要在线和面对面的专业发展机会，为未来的计划。
Access to professional development opportunities promotes equity for both teachers and students. We identified time, distance, and childcare needs as limiting factors for teachers seeking to attend our conference workshops and in-person professional development opportunities. Therefore, just months before the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid shift to online learning, the Genome Sciences Education Outreach (GSEO) program transitioned to online professional development for the NIGMS sponsored SEPA grant Genes Environment and Me Network (GEMNet) program. Our program was well positioned to support teachers in our network by providing online PD that included technology support and rapid access to our online curriculum for use for distance learning. Here we share the process of creating online PD as well as converting our materials to the digital environment. Additionally, we provide survey data and lessons learned from eight online PD trainings from January 2020 to January 2021 for both Health/Family and Consumer Science Teachers (n=20) and Biology Teachers (n=23). Notably, Teachers provided feedback affirming our initial reasons for providing online PD, and appreciated being supported at an overwhelmingly difficult time to be an educator. Our findings support the need for both online and in-person professional development opportunities for future programs.