Integrating Research & Education: Contemporary Research in the Education of Teachers

整合研究

• 批准号: 9620042
• 负责人: James Coffman
• 金额: $ 52.03万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-02-01 至 2002-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9620042&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Research; & Education; Contemporary

Kansas State University (KSU) has been selected as one of ten recipients of the National Science Foundation's Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research and Education. KSU has distinguished itself through its efforts to integrate research experiences with faculty and discovery-based learning into the undergraduate education of future K-12 teachers and the post-graduate development of inservice K-12 teachers. Innovative courses for current and future teachers have been developed through collaborations between faculty in science departments and the College of Education. Science and education faculty also collaborated in providing a capstone research experience for elementary education students. Through these collaborations, faculty and students in the College of Education are enriched by involvement in cutting edge research and members of the science faculty learn the results of the latest research on learning and teaching. The products of these collaborations include innovative new courses in genetics and quantum physics as well as a heightened awareness of pedagogy among science faculty. This will facilitate a wider conversion of science and engineering courses to the discovery-based approach. The university's vision is to expand this approach to all students. The university's efforts to integrate research and education were designed with specific outcomes in mind: increasing the science content knowledge of K-12 teachers; increasing the confidence level of current and future K-12 teachers in their ability to learn and teach science; improving the performance of student teachers in their first classroom teaching experience; and publishing research papers documenting the initiatives and their results. The university has documented noteworthy success in achieving these goals. The university is being awarded $500,000 with the goal of expanding, documenting, and disseminating its exemplary practices over the coming three years. Plans for the use of the award funds include: establishing the KSU Program for Integrating Education and Research dedicated to expanding faculty participation in integration activities; documenting the process used to create new courses; creating and presenting workshops at professional society meetings and other universities to highlight this approach; creating multimedia versions of the workshop for distribution on CD-ROM and through the World Wide Web; and developing new research-based introductory science and engineering courses and courses for teachers in other science and engineering disciplines.

堪萨斯州立大学(堪萨斯州立大学)被选为国家科学基金会研究与教育一体化表彰奖的十名获奖者之一。KSU通过努力将研究经验与教师和基于发现的学习结合到未来K-12教师的本科教育和在职K-12教师的研究生发展中而脱颖而出。通过科学系教员和教育学院之间的合作，为现有和未来的教师开发了创新课程。科学和教育学院还合作为基础教育学生提供顶峰研究体验。通过这些合作，教育学院的教职员工和学生通过参与尖端研究而得到丰富，理科教员也了解到关于学习和教学的最新研究成果。这些合作的成果包括遗传学和量子物理方面的创新新课程，以及科学教师对教育学的高度认识。这将有助于更广泛地将科学和工程课程转变为以发现为基础的方法。该大学的愿景是将这种方法推广到所有学生。该大学整合研究和教育的努力是在考虑到具体成果的情况下设计的：增加K-12教师的科学内容知识；提高当前和未来K-12教师对其学习和教授科学的能力的信心水平；改善实习教师在第一次课堂教学经验中的表现；以及出版记录这些举措和结果的研究论文。该大学在实现这些目标方面取得了令人瞩目的成功。该大学将获得50万美元的奖励，目标是在未来三年扩大、记录和传播其模范做法。奖励资金的使用计划包括：建立KSU教育和研究一体化计划，致力于扩大教师对一体化活动的参与；记录用于创建新课程的过程；创建并在专业学会会议和其他大学举办讲习班，以突出这一方法；制作讲习班的多媒体版本，通过光盘和万维网分发；以及为其他科学和工程学科的教师开发新的基于研究的入门科学和工程课程。